Peter Morgan is the latest high-profile television creator to sign a big overall deal with Netflix, this one a multi-year deal valued at over $100 million that will encompass film and television, and result in two more seasons of “The Crown,” bringing the series total to six.
(Season 3 of “The Crown” hits Netflix November 17 and work is already under way on Season 4.)Though they did not disclose terms, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed the Morgan deal in an email.
What’s most unusual about Morgan’s deal, of course, is that it’s not unusual at all.
(Deadline also noted that Netflix may be pursuing an overall deal with “Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker.)From JJ Abrams, Matt and Ross Duffer, and David Benioff and D.B.
Weiss, to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ryan Murphy, and Shonda Rhimes, these deals — at price points ranging from $20 million to $500 million — have become commonplace across the increasingly crowded television industry.
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