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It’s official, HBO Max has renewed its acclaimed DC Comics adaptation “Doom Patrol” for a third season – this one exclusive to the streamer. The first season last year was a DC Universe exclusive, the second was broadcast earlier this year on both DCU and HBO Max at the same time. Next year it will […]
Doom Patrol: Season 03 has been greenlit as the show completes its transition over to being purely a HBO Max show
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Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
With this and I Am Not Okay With This, covid seems to be getting the blame. I did see someone speculating that it could be that they essentially have no choice contractually and there is some merit in that - the contracts for all sorts of key elements, such as talent and even rights to produce at all, have hard limits, and a delay without being able to set a clear resume date might mean they would have to pay significant amounts of money for a show they can’t produce if they don’t cancel it.
But this sucks. Glow deserved its final season.
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In some rather shocking news, Netflix has abruptly cancelled its acclaimed female wrestling dramedy “GLOW” and has reversed plans for a fourth and final season of the Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin and Marc Maron led series. The streamer was about three weeks into filming its fourth season when production was suspended in mid-March amid the […]
Gutting, apparently the first episodes filming was complete too. The bigger explanation massages the pain though:
-LA based filming which is too heavy a COVID hotbed
-Large cast of over 20 with heavy amounts of physical contact needed
-The airdate would need to be pushed till at least 2022
They have paid all the cast for the full season though.
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