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If you claim Jessica Jones, Orange is the New Black, Master of None, or House of Cards as your favorite television obsession, prepare to get happy. According to a report from The Verge, Netflix’s Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos, announced yesterday that the streaming service plans on reaching 31 scripted shows by 2016. This news was part of Sarandos’ presentation at UBS Media Conference yesterday morning.

For anyone keeping track at home, that is double the amount of original shows that aired in 2015, but that’s not all the service has in store for the new year. Netflix is also working on creating 10 feature films, 30 kids’ shows, 12 documentaries, and 10 stand-up specials. You know all of those pieces of content are going to be high quality.

Netflix has already started making waves in the realm of high-end awards shows with Orange is the New Black earning four Emmys for its first two seasons and House of Cards winning six Emmys for its three seasons. Netflix has also recently become a force to be reckoned with when it comes to its documentaries. Though the Academy has yet to narrow down its list of Oscar contenders (that will be happening on January 14, folks), the Netflix documentaries Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom and What Happened, Miss Simone? have both found themselves on the Academy’s short list. Long story short, for the relatively small amount of content it produces, Netflix has been dominating lately.

This announcement, lofty as it may seem, falls in line with the steady increase in Netflix’s original programming. As the Vulture piece pointed out, this spike in original content may be in response to Netflix’s already-stellar current original programming. As the service produces more and more award-winning and audience-approved content, other networks may start becoming more hesitant to sign contracts giving their best work to a quickly-growing competitor. Who knows how long before we start to see the effects of this changing relationship, but for now, audiences, creators, and most likely Netflix will be the real winners in the service’s increased content production strategy.

Sarandos also took his time at UBS Media Conference to highlight Netflix’s growing international strategy. In February of this year, he discussed increasing Netflix’s international reach over the course of 2015, and it looks like the company has been successful in that goal. Netflix has made moves into Italy, Spain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal and has catered its content to be more internationally friendly over the course of this year. That focus on globalization has affected the service’s content in several ways, including developing partnerships with non-American channels (River and Pompidou) and creating more culturally diverse programming (Narcos and Club de Cuervos). There are even two Netflix Original animes — Knights of Sidonia and The Seven Deadly Sins, which have been dubbed in several languages. The Seven Deadly Sins has been impressively dubbed into five: Japanese, English, French, German, and Spanish.

This is all to say that Netflix is clearly taking its original content as seriously as its taking its global expansion strategy. The service might even make its way into sports, too! Hopefully, that means we can continue to expect an increasingly diverse and interesting assortment of viewing options from our friendly neighborhood streaming service.

If you’re excited about Netflix’s upcoming releases but curious about where that 16 series number came from, don’t worry. We’re in the same boat. Here’s a list of Netflix’s current lineup of scripted series: