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What Is Indie TV? How Mark Duplass Is Using His ‘Morning Show’ Paychecks to Launch a New Model for the Small Screen
Mark Duplass is using his 'Morning Show' money to fund his company's passion project: a new model for indie television.
“I can go back to ‘The Morning Show’ and make a really nice paycheck, then come here and use that to subsidize what we really want to do,” says Duplass, who plays Chip Black in the Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon-led Apple TV+ drama. And since they aren’t seeking production funds, Duplass and Eslyn can focus instead on striking up short-term domestic licensing deals that leave them in control of their IP. When asked whether they’d consider selling a title like “Penelope” to a distributor and accepting funds to produce a second season on the condition of giving up their rights, and therefore becoming cancellable, Duplass and Eslyn can’t say yes or no yet — this is uncharted territory.
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