Less than 48 hours after dominating the 2019 Emmys – with four wins for her hit series, Fleabag – Phoebe Waller-Bridge was confirmed in her status as the world’s hottest TV writer.
Amazon proudly announced it had signed her up to a lucrative “golden handcuffs” deal, worth a reported $US20 million each year, to create new series for Prime Video. Jennifer Salke, the then head of Amazon Studios, hailed the creator as “clever, brilliant, generous and a virtuoso on multiple fronts”.
