Vernon Sanders has exited as the head of global television at Amazon MGM Studios after seven years at the company.

Sanders’ departure was his own choice, Variety has learned. He announced his decision in a memo sent to staff on Wednesday, noting that his work as an executive made him “increasingly distant from what originally drew me to this industry: the day-to-day creative process of making television. Earlier this summer, I made the decision to return to those creative roots.”

Read his memo in full below.

Dear Colleagues,

After a little over seven years at Amazon MGM Studios, I am writing to share my decision to step down as Head of Global Television. Looking back to those early days, two things struck me immediately about Amazon: the exceptionally smart people and the vast, en

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