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'Walking Dead' Teaser Strips Rick Down to Nothing

Plus, Negan and Eugene enjoy a meeting of the minds.

In the ongoing battle between boxers and briefs, there's no room for negotiation — at least not where the Garbage People and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) are concerned.

The preview for next week's episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, called "Time For After," features the leader of Alexandria stripped down to the essentials — essentially, his boxers and nothing else, as he's still a captive of Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) and the Heapsters, awaiting some form of violent justice.

Are we in for a rematch between Rick and Winslow, the armored walker who fought against our fearless Walking Dead hero (admittedly a confusing title as we're still getting used to Lennie James joining Fear the Walking Dead) in a junkyard gladiator arena of sorts? Does Jadis have a line on some other means of menacing Rick? Is she about to make good on the threat she issued in the season seven finale? It would certainly explain Rick's current attire.

Watch the preview for next week's episode in the video below:

Of course, the trailer for "Time For After" speaks toward much more than Rick's current predicament. There's a greater focus on what's happening within the Sanctuary, now that Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has fought his way out of being surrounded by walkers — only to be surrounded by more walkers, as the Saviors' compound remains on lockdown. There's no sign of Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), unfortunately, but the person last seen caring for the ill-fated priest stands front and center in a clip from the coming episode: Eugene (Josh McDermitt), on the receiving end of one of Negan's famous monologues.

"If things don't get fixed soon, a lot of people are going to die. My people," Negan tells Eugene in a private meeting. "Not me, of course. I'm living no matter what. I am too good at this shit. But others — and I can't have that. I don't want to see people get shot up and chewed up and chewing up the rest. I don't want to see you get eaten, Eugene! This place is about pooling and organizing strength. And you, my friend, are strong. That spongy organ between your eyes and your spectacular mullet is strong. I just want to make sure you know that I know that."

See how Eugene responds to Negan in the video below:

Is Eugene truly on the same page as Negan, or has the brainiest survivor in the Sanctuary finally caught on to what Dwight (Austin Amelio) has been planning with the Alexandrians? Is there still hope for this "stage two badass," as far as someday returning to the right side of the fight? We'll get the answer in the episode ahead, or at least something resembling clarity, based on the previews.

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'Survivor' Season 35: Cole Medders Explains That Baffling Idol Play

Plus, the latest castaway reveals his side of the "food mongering" drama, the status of his relationship with Jessica and much more.

Welcome to The Hollywood Reporter's Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers regular season coverage! Every week, we're bringing you exit interviews with the latest person voted out, recaps from THR's very own Dan Fienberg and weekly check-ins with executive producer and host Jeff Probst. Bookmark our season 35 one-stop shop to make sure you don't miss out on any of it.

Warning: spoilers ahead for season 35, episode nine.

Apologies for using Ken McNickle's favorite word, but apparently, Mike Zahalsky's immunity idol play was a bit more nuanced than it appeared in the latest episode of Survivor.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, human mountain Cole Medders opened up about his fellow Healer's decision to play his hidden immunity idol at the latest Tribal Council, a baffling move given that Mike didn't even cast a vote for someone on the opposing alliance; he voted for Cole, sent home due to his physical prowess in the challenges, as well as some bad behavior around food.

For his part, Cole feels like some of the eating drama was a touch overblown, not unlike the wilderness therapy guide's own bloated belly after sneaking scoops of peanut butter from his tribe. (If anyone's curious about Cole's Thanksgiving intake, by the way, the climbing aficionado's holiday feast included "turkey, some ham, some sweet potato souflee, dressing, stuffing, pecan pie and all the works," according to the man himself.) Rumors of Cole's "food mongering," as he puts it, were greatly exaggerated by one of his rivals — and that's just one of a few social shackles placed upon him in the final stretch of his game.

Read on for Cole's revelations about Mike's immunity idol play, the way folks like Ben Driebergen and Chrissy Hofbeck were dismantling Cole's game, the status of his relationship with nurse Jessica Johnston, his thoughts on some of the remaining players (and things like that), his single greatest regret, and what he would do differently given a second chance at Survivor.

What happened at Tribal Council? Did something happen that we didn't see?

There was a pretty large part you missed. Mike's Statue of Liberty speech, as we like to call it in our group text, was a little bit more involved and longer. He went on a whole spiel about how he thought there were a bunch of hypocrites in the group who were putting a target on my back for things that had not actually happened, while they themselves were being dishonest and manipulative. He was scolding them, hoping they would vote for him and his idol. Also, Mike pulled his idol out before the votes and put it around his neck. He pulled out a fake idol and put it around Joe's neck.

Oh, wow. How did people react?

I wasn't clued in at all. I knew Mike had his idol, but I didn't know he had a fake idol. Earlier in the day, Mike asked me if I had an idol, because if I had an idol, we could make something happen tonight. I wasn't sure if I could trust Mike, because I knew he was in with Ben. I gave him a half-hearted answer: "I don't know, man. I might!" Maybe if I had told him, "No, I don't. I absolutely don't." Maybe things would have been different. But he thought I still had the idol from the beach.

How did Joe react to the fake idol? Did he seem surprised?

He seemed a little surprised. He didn't know what to make of it. He obviously knew it was a fake idol. I think a lot of people suspected it was fake. But it was enough in everyone's mind to solidify the plan: "Yeah, we're still voting Cole."

Did it look convincing?

It was just as convincing as some of the other idols I've seen played in Survivor history. He collected all of the tassels and beads off of the tribe camps he had been to, and combined them all together. He wrapped it in the parchment with the write-up for his idol, in order to make it look more convincing.

There's a moment at Tribal where it looks like you're shrinking to slip under the radar. Did you ever think you had a chance to dodge the vote that night, or did you feel confident the axe was coming your way?

I was ninety percent sure I was going home. It was in no way a blindside for me. Devon had actually come up to me earlier in the day and said, "Hey Cole, I think you're taking flak for some stuff you don't deserve. But I want to let you know that you're getting voted out tonight. You're a big physical threat. I really like you and I want to be honest to your face and tell you we're all voting for you. Save yourself if you can, but you're probably going home." He came up to me on the beach and told me that to my face.

Did you appreciate the head's up, or would you have rather not had that hanging over your head all day?

No, I appreciated it. I knew it was coming. It showed me that for most of the people who voted for me, a lot of them told me similar things, that it was in no way personal. I think it was personal for Ben, but outside of that, I think it was strictly the physical threat kind of thing.

What were you being blamed for that you shouldn't have been blamed for?

Back at the [Yawa] tribe, the extent of my food-mongering was taking a couple of extra scoops of peanut butter, which I did while people weren't paying attention — though I guess they noticed! It was two extra bites, and that's it. I guess Ben saw me eat a fish to myself. In my defense, I was catching everyone fish every single day, so I was going to eat that fish to replenish my energy. When we got to the merge, Ben very masterfully went and told everyone what I had done and exaggerated it to a point where when it got back to me eventually, I went, "Whoa, that never happened. It never went down like that." I was trying to make people appreciate me by cooking for everyone at almost every meal, but Ben was telling everyone that I was adding in extra portions of rice while I was cooking, so me cooking was actually hurting my game! (Laughs.) The whole thing that happened with Chrissy at the beach with the idol scramble, she came back and told everyone that I had just gone down and tackled her out of the blue while she was dealing with a migraine. Of course her alliance kind of believed her. I think that's where some of Desi's ill feelings [toward Chrissy] came from. And then the vote [during Desi's final Tribal Council] where I flipped, nobody believed I had voted for Joe, because of that missing vote from Lauren. They all thought that was Lauren's vote, and that they hadn't read my vote because it didn't matter [to the end result], and so they all thought I was lying.

So, you had some stink on you that was going to be very difficult to scrub off. Did you feel like even if you reached the end of the game, it would be impossible to wash it all off?

It felt pretty hopeless at that point, honestly. I knew I was going home soon. I knew my only chance was an idol or winning immunity. That was it. No one was going to work with me. A lot of people came up to me that day on the beach before the vote and told me how it was going to go. I don't know if it was just jury management, but I felt I had done a pretty good job of at least making people like me. I thought I was fun to be around at camp. I had stopped any sloppy eating habits at that point. Maybe if I had gotten to the end? I don't know. I'm hoping my likability would have come across at that point, but it would have been really hard to reverse.

In terms of the eating, what would you say to someone entering Survivor with a similar physique. You lost a good amount of weight, all muscle mass. Is that an inadvisable way to enter the game?

Well, [Jeremy Collins won Survivor: Second Chance], so he obviously he could do it. It makes it difficult, but I don't think it's an excuse. Everyone's struggling out there, and there were other athletic guys out there, too. I do have a unique metabolism and a unique diet plan, but if I had been mentally prepared for what was coming, I could have controlled those impulses to eat more. I would have been more self-aware. I didn't understand how significant the food depravation was going to be. I didn't get it. When you watch the show, they don't focus necessarily on that all of the time. They focus on the gameplay. Here I was thinking they would give us protein bars behind the scenes, but no, not at all. At it's best, you have a handful of rice a day.

If you had a secret stash of orange soda somewhere out there…

Oh, it would be a game changer.

I want to ask you about a few of the people still in the game, starting with the final two Healers on the board: Mike and Joe…

Joe and Mike are probably two of my favorite personalities from this whole cast. They're hilarious. Some people don't find Joe's sense of humor quite as funny as Mike's, but everyone adored Mike. He's just such a nice guy. He has a great sense of humor. From the get-go, Mike and I had made a final two pact that wasn't shown. We honored that most of the time. Before he voted me off, we had a conversation where he felt bad voting for me. I told him: "Mike, I'm gone at this point. There's no hope. Vote me to keep yourself in favor, and go win this thing for me. I can't win at this point." But watching Joe and Mike interact? It was a riot. They would entertain the whole camp just by interacting with each other. They had almost this brotherly love type of argument with each other, where they're putting each other down, but it's hilarious at the same time. It was a blast to be around both of them.

How about Chrissy, who has taken some heat in the exit press over the last several weeks? Do you share those sentiments that some of the other players coming off of the show seem to have toward her?

No, I think every single person in this cast is an incredible person. I think they've all done pretty amazing things with their personal lives at home. I don't think you should be held accountable personally for the things you do out there. You're playing a game for a million dollars. Going into it, everyone knows that it's a cutthroat and manipulative kind of game. That's how you get to the end. She's a really sweet person, when I've had the chance to talk to her. I didn't get to know her that well in the [game] and I know she's part of the reason I had so much pinned on me, but that's just part of playing the game. Some people get rubbed the wrong way, but I probably didn't take the game personally enough, which was one of my biggest flaws: separating the game from personal interactions and turning the game on and off, when it should always be on. Chrissy never rubbed me the wrong way. I think she's a sweet person with an amazing family.

Let's bring up the Cole Slayer, Lauren Rimmer, who bested you in your final immunity challenge. Is she playing a better game than people might realize?

Lauren has done an amazing job of being on the bottom and flipping it to her advantage somehow. She uses people's information really, really well. People would share things with her and she would just take that and use it against them in a way that I was trying to, but never could. She did it very well. She was a rock in that immunity challenge. I was so surprised when my urn fell off. Good for her. That was such an impressive win.

You mentioned Ben's role in exaggerating your food-mongering ways, as you put it. Was it always contentious between you two, or was their some level of mutual respect for one another?

Watching back the confessionals, it's hard to know if he had any level of respect for me. I'd like to think he did. He told me to my face: "I'm coming for you, Cole. You're a threat, and I'm coming for you." I respect that, and he got me. Good game for him. He told me he was coming for me, and he got me, so good job there. I think he's playing a really strong game. I don't hold any of that against him. That's how you win Survivor.

Did you have any kind of relationship with Ryan?

We did! Believe it or not, we have a lot of similar tastes in terms of sports, video games and music. We would sit and talk all the time about that stuff. He would always tell me, and this is good jury management too, if he gets to that point, "You're so awesome, Cole! I think you would be one of my best buds back home." Stuff like that. We did have a good friendship going on, but not enough to save me.

Speaking of stuff like that, I would love to get some insight into JP Hilsabeck. What is it like to interact with JP on Survivor, and do you have any question suggestions for my inevitable interview with JP — anything that's going to get him talking?

Uh, you could ask him about girls. He'll respond to that. (Laughs.) Maybe outdoorsy stuff. We definitely bonded over rock climbing and mountaineering while we were on the show, and we ended up following through on those plans. We climbed a mountain over the summer together. But he is definitely a Huntington Beach bro, in all definitions.

What's the status between Cole and Jessica? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Me and Jess… I'll always think she is the nicest, sweetest, most sincere and genuine person that you could ever meet. We've gotten to hang out in Chicago at Lollapalooza, we were both in L.A. together for the premiere, and we have L.A. in December coming up for the finale, and we even have a ski trip planned with some of the other castmembers coming in January, too. But right now, we're just really good friends. We're both at pretty different places. I'm doing a lot of traveling and I'm off the grid for my job, and she's very passionate about her career. There's always room for something down the road, maybe.

Would you play Survivor again, and if so, what needs to change between now and round two?

I would do this again in a heartbeat. It's crazy. I never watched the show religiously. It would have helped if I had studied more. When I went back and watched the episodes, I wouldn't have time to watch them all the way through, so I would fast forward through the small, social day-to-day stuff, which is what I should have studied. That's where the game is played, the minutiae in between Tribal Council and challenges. That's what I was fast-forwarding through. I would bring a lot more self-awareness. I would know what to expect from my body, and not let that control me. Maybe I would go to Tribal Council before the merge. That's something that really hurt me. That's where you see the consequences for your actions, at Tribal Council. I had not seen up until that point that my actions were resulting in anything that would make people come after me. I think going to Tribal before the merge is a really valuable lesson for a first-time player.

How differently does this season if you had thrown a challenge at Yawa and Roark stays in the game at least another few days?

That was definitely my biggest mistake. Mike, Jessica and I have talked after the show and we feel like we should have thrown the challenges in the middle. It would have made an easier trail for all of us. Mike still has life in the game, obviously, but it really could have worked out for me and Jessica. (Laughs.)

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TV Ratings: 'Sunday Night Football' Steady With 2016, Miss Universe Returns

The game is aided by a narrow win for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The long Thanksgiving weekend wrapped with a solid showing for the NFL on NBC.

Sunday Night Football, which brought a close 31-28 victory for the Pittsburgh Steelers over the Green Bay Packers, earned a 12.2 overnight rating among households for the network. That marked a marginal 3 percent improvement from the comparable game in 2016 — and an unfortunate 10 percent fall from last Sunday. (On the bright side, it was a 25 percent lift from the last technical outing of Sunday Night Football, a middling affair which aired on Thanksgiving night.)

NFL overage offered a solid assist to the CBS lineup, of which 60 Minutes will come out on top once ratings adjustments arrive. Fox's telecast of the Miss Universe pageant did fairly well in its return to December. After a January outing earlier this year to avoid NFL competition, it returned down a shade to a 1.3 rating among adults 18-49 and 4.4 million viewers.

ABC's new entries were episodes of America's Funniest Home Videos (1.2 adults) and Shark Tank (1.0 adults).

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'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Creators Talk Long-Term Plan, Amazon Turnover and More 'Gilmore Girls'

Married team Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino also discuss the surprising inspiration behind the Amazon period dramedy and why they wanted to do a series for streaming.

Almost a year after the launch of Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival, series creators-writers-directors-producer Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino are back with a new original series. Like Gilmore (and the beloved Bunheads), the husband-and-wife team have again crafted a light, quick-witted hourlong centered on a fast-talking, whip-smart female protagonist. However, that's where the comparisons end.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, premiering Nov. 29 on Amazon, is set in 1958 a few hundred miles from the confines of Stars Hollow in New York City. The series centers on Miriam "Midge Maisel (House of Cards' Rachael Brosnahan), a married mother of two whose life is turned upside down when her husband leaves her and she suddenly discovers a hidden talent for stand-up comedy. As she navigates her suddenly tumultuous personal life, Midge also navigates her way through the stand-up comedy world, a path that will ultimately take her to Johnny Carson's couch.

Maisel marks just the beginning of the Palladinos' relationship with Amazon. The series earned a rare two-season pickup in April and the duo signed an overall deal there in September. The latter comes in the midst of major turnover at Amazon, which saw top-level execs including studio chief Roy Price and head of comedy and drama Joe Lewis exit under less than ideal circumstances as the studio sets its sights on finding the next Game of Thrones.

Ahead of the series premiere, THR spoke with the braintrusts behind Maisel about going back in time, their experience thus far at Amazon, the "tough" process to find their lead and, of course, the prospect of more Gilmore Girls.

How did the idea for the show come about?

Amy Sherman-Palladino: My father was a stand-up comic so I grew up with a lot of comics sitting around our backyard eating deli and talking about the Catskills and talking about Greenwich Village and touring and sharing anecdotes and trying to make each other laugh. So that premise just stuck in my weird DNA.

Dan Palladino: And all those guys of her father's age were all starting out in the late '50s.

Sherman-Palladino: I think it scared me perhaps in an advantageous way. When I was talking to Amazon about doing something with them, I thought that would be a good venue to do on Amazon: a woman in the late '50s who gets sucked into that world and suddenly finds a voice and a talent and ambition that she had never known was there. And we could shoot it in New York so I could live in New York and wake up in New York and live in New York and work in New York.

This is your first period project. Most of the other things you've worked on are set in the present so what were the biggest challenges that came with that?

Palladino: It seemed like the perfect time to place her because there was a real sea change coming in comedy with Lenny Bruce and people like that that were not telling pre-written stand-up jokes. They were sometimes discussing things just off the tops of their heads.

Sherman-Palladino: A lot of stream of conscious.

Palladino: Or they were talking about current events, which was edgier at the time. Those guys, Lenny Bruce especially, led to George Carlin and Joan Rivers and they led to Sarah Silverman and Jerry Seinfeld and all of that crew so it just seemed like an interesting time for her to dive in. She doesn't look like a woman who would go into comedy. We explore how people react to how she looks and her pursuing comedy at that time in other episodes. It just felt like the perfect year to start following a woman just boldly going into this really, really impossible business.

Sherman-Palladino: Plus, we wanted to do something with some scope. We wanted to do something that had a lot of visual places to explore and 1958 New York, especially re-creating that in modern New York, is both tragically impossible and hard, and very rewarding and exciting. We have this unbelievable crew of people working with us who have made it possible so it just felt like let's go for something that has a great visual theme to it also.

What drew you to Amazon? How did those conversations begin about working with them on something?

Sherman-Palladino: We had a really great relationship with Netflix on the Gilmore movies and we were pretty decided at that moment that the streaming world was our new permanent home forever if we ever worked again. Just because they were people that spoke our language. I sat down with [Amazon Studios head of current hour] Marc Resteghini, and he just was a guy who listened and understood and they felt like a company that was looking to do different stories. When I first was at Warner Bros. when dinosaurs were on the Earth and pitched Gilmore, The WB [the network that evolved into The CW] prided themselves as being the network that encouraged voices because they had Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams. Sitting with the Amazon guys felt like even a broader version of that. They want those different experiences and those different characters and those different voices out there and they felt like people that would not be terrified of us and find us annoying problem children, but actually find our independent style a little delightful. So far, they are either lying or they actually do find us delightful. Either way, I'll take it. I don't need honesty, I just need to do my thing.

What were the specific points that made streaming so compelling as compared to cable or pay cable or broadcast?

Palladino: The main thing is once you got away from, especially the four-network model and even the cable model, there's just room for a lot of different kinds of characters, a lot of different kinds of voices. We've been in this business a long time. When we started at broadcast networks, you pitch a strong woman character and you see men in the room get very nervous about a strong woman character because often they worry that if the woman is strong, she's not going to be likable. Now you pitch a Midge Maisel, there's no nervousness, there's no question about that. That's actually a pretty big sea change. It's fantastic that that's happened. That's a result of having so many outlets that there's a less uniform business model sort of guiding everybody in their choices. Because that's how you end up with the same cop show, the same medical show over and over and over and over again.

Sherman-Palladino: The other thing about Amazon and Netflix and streaming services is because they want everybody there, they want everybody at the table, they are going to be open to a lot more. You go to some places and they say, "This is what we do. We are this so it has to fit it into our tiny little hole." There is no tiny little hole at Amazon or Netflix, the sky's the limit. That's really important when you're people like us who have very strong opinions about your work and what you want to do and aren't interested in having to explain why you made those music choices. There's a trust level in terms of who you are and your body of work that you don't get at a network. They simply don't have the trust that you're not going to completely screw 'em over and waste their money. For some reason, there's no trust. It doesn't matter who you are or what your background is. You're all the same, you're all failures until you've proved differently as far as they're concerned.

Amazon had so much trust in you they gave the show a rare two-season pickup. How did that impact you in terms of writing and planning for the show's long-term future?

Palladino: It really helped us because we could tell specific crew because we were trying to get the best crew available.

Sherman-Palladino: You got a job next year, kid!

Palladino: It didn't affect the longer-term plan because if you go into any series, we're big believers that you should be able to see years down the line and a lot of writers actually don't do that. They come up with thoughts and they actually don't know what's coming.

Given how the serialized the show is and you actually put in the series descriptor, this show is going to show her from discovering her talent to Johnny Carson's couch, how long do you see the show running?

Sherman-Palladino: Thirty-five years.

Palladino: And when we say Johnny Carson's couch, we mean the couch on set. With everything going on right now, we have to be clear.

Sherman-Palladino: In this day and age, it can mean something else completely.

Palladino: It's the one on his set that's on camera. We're not hiding the fact that this is going to be a journey of success. It's the journey that we think is going to be interesting for the audience.

Sherman-Palladino: But her personal journey is really what the show is about and so it's not really a spoiler to say, "Oh, by the way she's going to be famous or she's going to be successful." This show is really about how her shifting dynamic affects her family, her husband. It's really about all of those personal dynamics.

Do you have a number of seasons plotted out?

Sherman-Palladino: I think we know what our trajectory is for the first four to five seasons. And then I just want to see if I’m still breathing at that point. If I am, then we’ll continue or Dan and his new wife will continue!

So much of this series hinges on the title role. How did you find your Mrs. Maisel? How long was that search and what did that entail?

Sherman-Palladino: It entailed a lot of really good actresses coming in and reading for it, which we are very grateful for. It was tough. It was a lot. It's a tough part. And the toughest thing was we knew we were probably going to have to get an actress who was not a comic, which is what we got, and whose comedy had to be story so that they would have something to latch onto because comedy is its own animal. Great comics, they take years and years and years to hone that persona and those jokes and the timing and we wanted to be able to show the audience in the pilot when Midge goes up on stage that she has the potential of being something really great. We didn't want to just tell the audience that, we wanted them to see it. We needed to find that one in a million girl. Rachel came in and we had been told by our L.A. casting director, Jeannie Bacharach, there's nothing on paper that says that she could remotely do that because she was mostly drama but she just felt like Rachel was special enough that she would be able to be our girl. She came in and she read and we worked with her and we talked and by the time that she left, it was very apparent that she was it. She came, she saw, she conquered.

When you were meeting with these actresses, did you actually have them read jokes or do stand-up to see how they would be in that context?

Sherman-Palladino: We had them do the stand-up scene.

Palladino: Every actress came in and every actress was off-book. They had memorized the scene and they came in to do the stand-up and it was me yelling, like the audience would, back to them and kind of applauding and trying to give them energy. It was really tough.

Sherman-Palladino: It was very grueling for Dan. It was exhausting.

Palladino: It was terrible. You should do a whole separate article on how grueling the process was for me. But really, they just came in and did it and it's a high-wire act to do that in a casting session. Rachel knew how to approach it from a character's point even though she was never dumb enough to try stand-up.

You signed an overall deal with Amazon, but before that there was speculation about more installments of Gilmore Girls given its success on Netflix. Right now, where do you stand on the future of Gilmore Girls and your interest in doing more episodes?

Sherman-Palladino: We've got the Gilmore clause, we've carved it out. (Laughs.) The thing about Gilmore Girls is, it's an amorphous thing. The reason that it happened the first time is because we all went to that Austin [ATX] Festival and we all sat together and there was an open bar and we were all sitting there saying, "It feels good now, let's do it now." I think it would have to be a similar situation There would have to be an open bar and we would have to have the right story and the right format and it would have to be a time where the girls and us all felt like, 'Yeah, let's dive in again.' There's nothing being planned right now but it's open if the muse strikes.

There's recently been a lot of executive changes at Amazon. Now that you have an overall deal, how concerned are you about going forward at the studio? How are you feeling about Amazon given those recent exits?

Sherman-Palladino: Our guys at Amazon are Marc Resteghini and Ken Lipman, and they're still there. They're good guys. Our people have been very constant.

Palladino: What’s kind of cool about how our brief time so far has been at Amazon is, at this point, we're kind of like independent filmmakers or independent TV makers on our own. They know that the deal is: here's what we're going to try to do. Let us do it to the best of our ability, meaning like don't throw a lot of different things at us. Take it or leave it as is, and let us do our thing and they were amazing on that with Maisel. We gave them what we promised…

Sherman-Palladino: …And they did what they promised.

Palladino: We're still independent producers within the Amazon realm and we're happy there because we need cameras, we need financing, we need an office, we need a home, and they're happily providing all of that. It's been good and we're looking forward to a really great relationship with them.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel premieres Wednesday, Nov. 29 on Amazon Prime.

Jackie Strause contributed to this report.

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The streaming video service picks up U.S. SVOD rights to Scandinavian crime dramas 'Below the Surface' and 'Midnight Sun,' as well as U.K. drama 'Trust Me' in its first-ever licensing deal with the studio.

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'Rendlesham,' inspired by a real-life UFO incident in 1980, is being produced by Eleventh Hour Films.

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