The beautiful women of wrestling are not any match for COVID-19.
GLOW has been canceled after three seasons at Netflix regardless of snagging a renewal for a fourth and ultimate season.
The information is stunning, particularly when you think about that it was a preferred present, and that it already had a renewal in place for one final season.
Now, followers can be left within the lurch because the sequence is over.
GLOW, which is executive-produced by Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black), was canceled on the same day as Teenage Bounty Hunters, which obtained the boot after a single season.
“We have made the troublesome determination to not do a fourth season of GLOW as a consequence of COVID, which makes capturing this bodily intimate present with its massive ensemble solid particularly difficult,” mentioned a Netflix spokesperson, in response to Deadline.
“We’re so grateful to creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, Jenji Kohan and all of the writers, solid and crew for sharing this story in regards to the unimaginable ladies of GLOW with us and the world.”
“COVID has killed precise people. It’s a nationwide tragedy and needs to be our focus. COVID additionally apparently took down our present. Netflix has determined to not end filming the ultimate season of GLOW,” sequence creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch mentioned in a statement to Deadline.
“We had been handed the artistic freedom to make a sophisticated comedy about ladies and inform their tales. And wrestle. And now that’s gone.”
“There’s a variety of sh*tty issues taking place on the planet which can be a lot larger than this proper now. But it surely nonetheless sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 ladies in a body collectively once more.”
Added Flahive and Mensch, “We’ll miss our solid of weirdo clowns and our heroic crew. It was the very best job.”
They closed off with: “Register to vote. And please vote.”
GLOW was a couple of weeks into manufacturing when the pandemic pressured them to shutter for some time.
With one episode within the can, it was anticipated to return to manufacturing, however sadly, the streamer appears like they can not make a fourth season work.
The information comes months after the cancellations of The Society and I Am Not Okay With This.
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