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Many thought she would sell the company, or relinquish the publisher position, but instead she dug in.

Asked whether Perry’s flop 2024 album “143” served as a kind of object lesson — a cautionary tale, perhaps, regarding the challenges in moving between TV and music — Underwood said, “I don’t really think about it.”

“Maybe art didn’t put anything into order,” Di thinks, rightly, at one point.

“I think that half-hour comedies have gone away from that since streaming,” she wrote in an email.

“I think we kind of knew we were maybe a little bit too cuckoo-crazy for Sundance, but we were like, Austin is the right kind of weird for this type of cult art-house smutty cinema.”