Three years and $60m later, Amazon still doesn’t have a Phoebe Waller-Bridge hit

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In 2019, after the second season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s smash hit dark comedy Fleabag closed to shimmering reviews, executives at Amazon thought: “We’d like a slice of that pie.”

And so, that September, just two days after Waller-Bridge scooped three Emmys for the show’s second run, it was announced that the British TV darling had signed a $20m-a-year deal with the company.