Amazon Gets Into the Sitcom Business

Amazon has been stocking up its Web-video offering with lots of old TV shows. Now it’s going to start making some of its own. The company is pulling back the covers (a bit) on its plans to produce kids’ shows and sitcoms via its “Amazon Studios” unit, which has already been dipping a toe into the movie business. Word of the new push leaked out earlier this year, via hiring notices — such a useful way to track a secretive company! — and now Amazon is ’fessing up.