Prime Video has handed a series order to DINKS, its first multi-camera comedy — the traditional studio-audience format that gave the world Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond. The show comes from Marta Kauffman, who co-created Friends and Grace and Frankie, and her writing partner Hannah K.S. Canter. Amazon MGM Studios ordered the pilot in April 2024, and has now picked it up to series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The title is an acronym: Double Income, No Kids. The series follows a couple, Josh and Charlie, who renovate their dream house. Playing them are June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer — improv veterans who are also married in real life. Jon Gabrus, another improv regular, rounds out the cast as a series regular, a casting first reported by Deadline in June 2024.

What sets DINKS apart from a standard sitcom order is the improvisation. The series will be heavily improvised, meaning the actors work from a story outline rather than a locked script, riffing within each scene. That approach leans on the cast's improv backgrounds: Raphael and Scheer are longtime performers at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre in Los Angeles, and Gabrus hosts the long-running improv podcast High and Mighty.

Behind the camera, Kauffman serves as showrunner — the lead writer and production boss who shapes the series episode to episode. She executive produces with Canter, Robbie Rowe Tollin, Jesse Schiller, Raphael and Scheer. The production stable includes Amazon MGM Studios, Lionsgate Television, Kauffman and Canter's Okay Goodnight banner, and Publicis Media Content Innovation, as The Hollywood Reporter notes.

For Kauffman, DINKS marks a return to the multi-cam format she helped define. Friends ran for ten seasons on NBC from 1994 to 2004 and remains one of the most-watched sitcoms in streaming, years after its original broadcast. Grace and Frankie, co-created with Howard J. Morris, ran seven seasons on Netflix.

Prime Video has built its comedy slate largely around single-camera and animated series. A multi-cam order signals the platform testing whether the older broadcast format — cheaper to produce, shot on a fixed set with three or four cameras — still draws streaming audiences.

No premiere date or episode count has been announced.