Blindspotting, Heels, and Run the World Canceled by STARZ After Two Seasons
Three shows won’t be returning for new seasons on STARZ.
Blindspotting, Heels, and Run the World have been canceled by STARZ — each after two seasons.
Variety exclusively reported the news, adding that The Venery of Samantha Bird Season 1 will be scrapped before it even airs.
TV Line reports the latter, which was set to star Katherine Langford, had received an eight-episode order from STARZ in October, with six of them reportedly filmed before production shut down when negotiations fell apart with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) causing the SAG-AFTRA strike.
The Venery of Samantha Bird was about “Samantha, [who] while visiting family in New England, reconnects with her childhood sweetheart and falls headlong into a seemingly perfect storybook romance. But the couple’s picture-perfect love story isn’t as sweet as it seems on the surface,” per its synopsis via Variety.
Blindspotting, a spinoff of the 2018 film with the same title, focused on Jasmine Cephas Jones’s Ashley, debuted on STARZ with Blindspotting Season 1 Episode 1, “The Ordeal,” in June 2021.
It concluded its second and now final season with Blindspotting Season 2 Episode 8, “Welcome to Ithica,” in May 2023.
The half-hour dramedy found Ashley “nipping at the heels of a middle class life in Oakland until Miles, her partner of 12 years and father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, leaving her to navigate a chaotic and humorous existential crisis when she is forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister,” per its synopsis.
Executive produced by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs (who starred in, executive produced, and wrote the film), Blindspotting reunited the duo with Jess Wu Calder and Keith Calder of Snoot Entertainment, who executive produced the show.
Casal led Blindspotting as its showrunner and directed some of its episodes. Seith Mann, Emily Gerson Saines, Ken Lee, and Tim Palen of Barnyard also executive produced.
The show also starred Helen Hunt, Jaylen Barron, Candice Nicholas-Lippman, Benjamin Earl Turner, and Atticus Woodward.
Heels, named after the wrestling term for an antagonist, starred Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig as brothers and rivals Jack and Ace Spade at the family-owned wrestling organization Duffy Wrestling League (DWL). It debuted with Heels Season 1 Episode 1, “Kayfabe,” on Starz in August 2021.
There, the brothers “fight over their late father’s legacy and their individual versions of success, while also working to find their own identity as a “face” or a “heel,” per its Season 2 synopsis. The show wrapped up its now final season with Heels Season 2 Episode 6, “Appearances,” in September 2023.
Its second season also starred Alison Luff, Mary McCormack, Kelli Berglund, Allen Maldonado, Chris Bauer, Trey Tucker, Robby Ramos, Alice Barrett Mitchell, Roxton Garcia, David James Elliott, Joel Murray, CM Pink, AJ Mendez, Josh Segarra, and Emmy Raver-Lampman.
Showran and executive produced by Mike O’Malley, Heels was created by Michael Waldron. Christopher Donnelly, Pete Segal, Patrick Walmsey, and Julie Yorn executive produced the show. Heels is produced through O’Malley Ink and LBI Entertainment in association with Lionsgate Television for STARZ.
Run the World, which debuted on STARZ in May 2021 and concluded its second and now final season in July 2023, “chronicles the euphoric highs and heartbreaking lows that Whitney (Amber Stevens West), Renee (Bresha Webb), and Sondi (Corbin Reid) must endure in their pursuit of world domination,” per its description.
“Whitney must follow the road of self-discovery in order to thrive in her life with or without Ola, while Renee and Sondi must decide what they truly want out of life – both in love and their careers,” per Run the World‘s Season 2 description.
“Whether they reunite with a past love, taste the life of a millionaire, or see their career take off in a radical new direction, these powerful Black women, fortified by their impenetrable friendship, won’t let anything get in their way,” it continued.
Leigh Davenport created and executive produced, and Rachelle Williams-BenAry showran and executive produced. Yvette Lee Bowser executive produced, with Jenny Lee co-executive producing, Ester Lou as a supervising producer, and Owen Smith as a consulting producer. Caroline Jaczko produced Run the World for UPM.
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Blindspotting, Heels, and Run the World are streaming on STARZ.
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