Amazon has canceled two of its popular shows despite both being renewed for a second season. A league of their own and the sci-fi series The peripheral they will not be moving forward with their new seasons.
According to sources, the shows being demolished are a casualty of the ongoing strikes by Hollywood writers and actors. Variety reports, “With Hollywood writers and actors still on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), there was no hope that production on season two would begin anytime soon.”
A league of their own was inspired by the classic film of the same name directed by Penny Marshall and starring Abbi Jacobson, D’Arcy Carden, Chante Adams, Melanie Field and Kate Berlant. The series followed “an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball. The show takes a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new set of characters as they carve their own way into the field, both in the league and outside of it.
The peripheral was based on William Gibson’s novel of the same name, starred Chloë Grace Moretz and hailed by executive producers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. The story “centers on Flynne Fisher (Moretz), a woman trying to keep the pieces of her broken family together in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Flynne is smart, ambitious and doomed. She has no future; until the future comes calling.
I’m especially disappointed to hear that The Peripheral has been cancelled. I was really hooked on that show and was looking forward to the second season. It’s a shame it ended up being demolished under the circumstances.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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