The TV series based on cult comic book Preacher is to launch in the UK on Amazon’s Prime streaming service from Monday.

The episodes will be released by Amazon in the UK, Austria, Germany and Japan the day after they air in the US on AMC, with the pilot available from Monday and the next episode two weeks later, and then each Monday thereafter.

The Sony Pictures Television series is co-produced by avid comic book fan and Knocked Up actor Seth Rogen, and the showrunner is Breaking Bad’s Sam Catlin.

Two of the leads, Agent Carter’s Dominic Cooper and Joseph Gilgun of This is England, are from the UK. The other main character is played by Ruth Negga, who also starred in Channel 4’s offbeat superhero series Misfits with Gilgun.

The original comic series is part of DC’s adult comic book stable Vertigo. The adaptation stars Cooper as a preacher from Texas called Jesse who gains the power to command people to do whatever he tells them. He teams up with Gilgun’s Cassidy, an Irish vampire, and Negga as Tulip, Jesse’s assassin ex-girlfriend.

“Preacher is one of the most ambitious and highly anticipated new series of the year, and exactly the kind of show we want to bring our Prime members around the world,” said Amazon worldwide television acquisition vice-president Brad Beale.

The show joins Amazon’s growing list of exclusive shows in the UK, many of which have been acquired from US cable networks, including Mr Robot, which originally aired on the USA Network and returns for a second series later this year, and Outlander, which was first shown on Starz.