From Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s octopus show to Macaulay Culkin’s pizza band: stars’ wildest career U-turns
The Fleabag creator’s new TV series sees her reinvent herself as an ocean documentarian. But she’s far from the first celebrity to strike out in a radical new directionFor some years now, putting “Phoebe Waller-Bridge” and “Amazon” together in a sentence would only provoke feelings of sadness and disappointment. After all, in 2019 Waller-Bridge signed (and re-signed, and re-signed again) a $20m-a-year deal to develop shows for the platform, without a single project ever making it to screen. But that ends now.On Thursday, Amazon Prime Video will release Octopus!, a two-part documentary about some octopuses, narrated by none other than Phoebe Waller-Bridge. And while it does in fact look like a very good documentary about some octopuses – it’s part-animated and seems to heavily feature Tracy Morgan as a talking head – it arguably isn’t what Amazon had in mind when it paid Waller-Bridge $100m for content ideas. Continue reading...
The Fleabag creator’s new TV series sees her reinvent herself as an ocean documentarian. But she’s far from the first celebrity to strike out in a radical new direction
For some years now, putting “Phoebe Waller-Bridge” and “Amazon” together in a sentence would only provoke feelings of sadness and disappointment. After all, in 2019 Waller-Bridge signed (and re-signed, and re-signed again) a $20m-a-year deal to develop shows for the platform, without a single project ever making it to screen. But that ends now.
On Thursday, Amazon Prime Video will release Octopus!, a two-part documentary about some octopuses, narrated by none other than Phoebe Waller-Bridge. And while it does in fact look like a very good documentary about some octopuses – it’s part-animated and seems to heavily feature Tracy Morgan as a talking head – it arguably isn’t what Amazon had in mind when it paid Waller-Bridge $100m for content ideas. Continue reading...
