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Jonathan Alter
As a news correspondent, bestselling author and Newsweek media columnist, it's no surprise that Jonathan Alter found a new home producing a scripted sitcom focused on the lives of American political power players. "Alpha House," which premiered in 2013 as Amazon.com's very first original series, followed the lives of four Republican senators who live together in a house in Washington, D.C. The series was written by "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau and starred John Goodman.