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Amazon's Amazing TV Mess: 'Everyone's Afraid of Their Own Shadow'

After Jen Salke's exit, writers, sellers, agents spill tea on the torture of doing business there and what they want to see from Vernon Sanders

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Lesley Goldberg
Apr 02, 2025
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POWER SHIFT From left: Mike Hopkins, Sue Kroll, Jennifer Salke and Vernon Sanders at the season two premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in August. (The Ankler illustration; puzzle: mrPliskin/Getty Images; execs: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Prime Video)

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