<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.amazon.com/The-Man-High-Castle/dp/B00RSGFRY8 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Man in the High Castle is an American dystopian alternative history television series produced by Amazon Studios, Scott Free Productions, Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions and Big Light Productions . The series is loosely based on the 1962 novel of the same name by science fiction author Philip K. Dick . In the series' alternate version of 1962 America, the Axis powers have won World War II and divided the United States into two puppet states: the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States . The series follows characters whose destinies intertwine after coming into contact with a series of propaganda films that show a vastly different history from that of their own . </P> <P> Premiering in January 2015, the pilot was Amazon's "most - watched since the original series development program began ." The next month Amazon ordered episodes to fill out a ten - episode season, which was released in November, to positive reviews . A second season of ten episodes premiered in December 2016, with a third season announced a few weeks later to be released in 2018 . </P> <P> The central characters are Juliana Crain, Frank Frink, Joe Blake, John Smith, Nobusuke Tagomi, and Takeshi Kido . The series takes place in an alternate 1962 . </P>

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