Phoebe Waller-Bridge signs big contract with Amazon Studios – Deadline

Amazon Studios has signed a global deal with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator and star of the award-winning Emmy series, Amazon Original, Flea bag. I hear that the pact is for three years. For the moment, there is no hotter on television than Waller-Bridge, three-time winner of an Emmy, whose emissions, Bag with chips and Kill Eve, has just won seven Emmys, most in prestigious categories rewarded Sunday night.

Since the beginning of last weekend, which has consolidated the status of multi-treaty TV "Waller-Bridge", emulators have been sent to TV studios and streamers for a global contract with Actress, playwright, producer and English writer. The success of the current Waller-Bridge series, BBC / Amazon, is attracting a lot of attention. Bag with chips and BBC America's Kill Eve, Amazon Studios quickly became the favorite of the Waller-Bridge contest. The global deal with Amazon was in its final phase last weekend when Waller-Bridge swept the Emmys, if I understood correctly.

No financial details have been revealed, but the pact with Amazon is considered one of the most important for a designer in a market boiling for the talents of producer. Industry speculation estimates that it is in the average of eight digits.

As part of this agreement, Waller-Bridge will create and produce new TV content for Amazon Studios, which will be broadcast exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories.

"I am incredibly excited to continue my relationship with Amazon," said Waller-Bridge. "Working with the team on Bag with chips was the creative partnership whose dreams are made. We really feel at home. I can not wait to go there!

Waller-Bridge is the creator, scriptwriter, executive producer and star of the Amazon comedy Flea bag, who won 6 Emmys, including the humorous series, the main actress in a humorous series (Waller-Bridge), the writing (Waller-Bridge), the staging, casting and editing of A humorous series. She is also the creator and executive producer of BBC America's drama Killing Eve, which on Sunday captured Jodie Comer, lead actress in the drama series Emmy, after earning her compatriot Sandra Oh a Golden Globe.

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"We are excited to continue our partnership with Phoebe at Amazon Studios! As evidenced by her big success at the Emmy Awards this week, she is smart, brilliant, generous and virtuoso on many fronts, including writing, acting and production, "said Jennifer Salke, head of from Amazon Studios. "Bag with chips has been a gift to our Prime Video customers and we look forward to seeing what this brilliant spirit will produce next to dazzle and delight our global audience. "

At the TCA last month, Salke hinted that Amazon's mission was to keep Waller-Bridge in the fold. "I'm basically his stalker," Salke joked. "We venerate Phoebe, she is an incredible talent."

The rivals also declared their great interest for Waller-Bridge. Reed Hastings from Netflix recently revealed that Bag with chips It was the only show he wanted for Netflix.

While Kill Eve prepares for season 3, Waller-Bridge at the Emmys closes the door again for a possible third season of zeitgeisty Flea bag.

Next for Waller-Bridge is Run, a series of comical romantic thrillers for HBO with Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever. The emission produced by eOne, produced and reproduced by the Waller-Bridge executive, is currently shooting for a first in 2020.

Waller-Bridge played several roles in British series, including Sky Comedy. Coffee and features like The iron woman, before she broke through the second season of ITV crime drama Broadchurch where she played the lawyer Abby Thompson who became suspicious when the accused who she represents changed history.

His first television premiere was Crashing, from Channel 4, a comedy drama on the left of a group of twenty-five-year-olds living in a disused hospital. The series, which began in January 2016, was an evaluation flop and was quickly canceled. But he was soon followed by Bag with chips on BBC Three, which became an immediate critical hit. It was premiered as a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, written and performed by Waller-Bridge.

Waller-Bridge works regularly with his creative partner, Vicky Jones, who works with his DryWrite, a small theater company that produced Bag with chips during his original race at the Soho Theater. The two work together on HBO Run, that Jones writes.

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Waller-Bridge recently concluded a limited tour of his one-woman show Off-Broadway at New York's SoHo Playhouse in April and at Wyndham's Theater in London's West End earlier this month.

The first season of Bag with chips Waller-Bridge won the BAFTA Television Award for his female performance in a humor program. Kill Eve earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for the drama series and an Emmy nomination for a drama series. The first season, written by Waller-Bridge / showran, was honored by a Peabody and was also nominated for 15 BAFTA Television Awards, including Best Drama and Best Drama Writer.

In the reports, Waller-Bridge appeared as the first droid woman of Ron Howard. Solo: A story of Star Wars. She also joined the editorial team of the next James Bond movie No time to diewith Daniel Craig and directed by Cary Fukunaga. It is dated for an April release.

Waller-Bridge is replaced by UTA, Hatton McEwan Penford, Independent Talent and Ziffren Brittenham.

Peter White and Dominic Patten contributed to this report.

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