There will finally be no extra innings for A League Of Their Own as Amazon Prime Video has now decided to cancel the series after just one season.
The show was canceled earlier this year, but the streamer backed out and greenlit a shorter second/final season to give it a proper send-off.
The latest decision is being attributed to the ongoing strikes by SAG-AFTRA and the WGA against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which involves actors and writers.
In explaining the reasons for the cancellation, Amazon raised concerns about the long delay between the release of seasons one and two, according to Variety.
With unions and the AMPTP holding little hope of reaching an agreement anytime soon, a second season likely would not have aired until 2025 at the earliest. The first season aired in August 2022.
Hit! You are outside! There will finally be no extra innings for A League Of Their Own as Amazon Prime Video has now decided to cancel the series after just one season
The first season consisted of eight episodes and it was co-creators Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson who brokered a deal for the final four-episode season.
The writing sessions began in the spring but were wiped out by the WGA strike – whose members are demanding fairer wages from the AMPTP, among others.
But now it looks like the Rockford Peaches have played their last game.
In addition to being a co-creator, Jacobson also served as the series’ main character, Carson Shaw, the team’s catcher.
Her and Graham’s goal was to give a more modern take on Penny Marshall’s popular 1992 film of the same name, starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna.
With a respectful nod, Graham and Jacobson went to Marshall and received her blessing to move the series forward before her passing in December 2018.
In addition to Jacobson, the cast includes Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Colindrez, Kelly McCormack, Priscilla Delgado, Molly Ephraim, Melanie Field and Kate Berlant.
Set in 1943, the story follows the founding of the Rockford Peaches, a women’s team in the nascent All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
With her husband away from the war, Carson Shaw (Jacobson) leaves her small town life to pursue her dream of playing professional baseball.
Another story arc follows Maxine Chapman (Adams), an African American woman who is obsessed with baseball, who can’t even get people to try it, and thus has trouble getting considered for a baseball team.
Flip-Flop: The show was canceled earlier this year, but the streamer backed out and decided to greenlight a shorter second/final season to give it a proper send-off
The latest decision is attributed to the ongoing strikes by SAG-AFTRA and WGA against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which involves actors and writers.
The Good Fight: The first season consisted of eight episodes and it was co-creators Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson who fought and brokered a deal for the final four-episode season
The Writers Guild of America (WGA), which represents some 11,500 screenwriters, went on strike on May 2nd.
One of the main areas of focus in the labor dispute is the streaming media backlog; The WGA claims that AMPTP’s share of such residues has cut much of the authors’ median earnings compared to a decade ago.
Writers also want artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to be used only as a tool that can help with research or facilitate script ideas, and not as a tool to replace them
The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which represents around 160,000 media professionals and entertainers, began its strike on July 14.
The WGA and the Screen Actors Guild have not struck simultaneously since the 1960s, when actors joined the striking writers over outstanding balances on films sold to television networks.