

That includes Étoile, the next series from the Maisel duo of Amy Sherman-Palladino & Daniel Palladino, the upcoming Mr. “We couldn’t be more proud of Meisel and to have it end on this kind of high note I can’t think of a better way to have entered it creatively,” Salke said.Īs for what would fill the void left by Maisel‘s departure, “we have a lot of great development projects in the works,” Salke said. This is a transitional year for Prime Video with its longtime awards juggernaut The Marvelous Mrs. That includes unscripted MGM hits The Voice and Vanderpump Rules, both logging multiple Emmy nominations today. “This is a group of studio executives working together across MGM and Amazon so there’s great pride and ownership in those shows.” “Even though that’s a Netflix show, we take great pride and are huge fans of Wednesday,” Sanders said. “That projects been around for a while, so finding the stars aligning and having to come together in this incarnation, with James and with Ronald and the great team behind Freevee creatively, it’s been such a great thing to see.” “We operate as one big creative organization so it’s just been really gratifying to see these things break out, and especially Jury Duty because it’s a reinvention, it’s a long overdue comedy that surprises and entertains in a different way,” Salke said.

“The quality of the content from Freevee really stands out.”Īmazon Studios head Jennifer Salke praised Head of AVOD Programming Lauren Anderson, whom both Salke and Sanders had mentored at NBC, and her talent relationships. Speaking of the team at Freevee, whose business model is largely built on programming at a modest cost, “they’ve just done a miraculous job with tight budgets, making things that resonate,” Sanders said. It just blew up over TikTok and to this day, people are finding the show and loving it.” It’s such a bold idea, and it could have gone wrong in so many ways,” Amazon Studios’ Head of Television Vernon Sanders said. “We are so proud of the Freevee team and the Jury Duty team. James Marsden (L) and Ronald Gladden Getty
