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A League of Their Own is not returning for its second and final season after all. Per Deadline, plans for season two have been cancelled due to production delays and the current actors and writers strikes in the industry.
Starring Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Colindrez, Nick Offerman, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Kate Berlant, Kendall Johnson, Kelly McCormack, Alex Désert, Priscilla Delgado, Aaron Jennings, Molly Ephraim, Melanie Field, and Dale Dickey, the A League Of Their Own series is a reimaging of the Penny Marshall film of the same name. The story revolves around the 1943 formation of the Rockford Peaches, a women’s team in the newly formed All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
After a bit of a delay, Prime Video ordered a limited four-episode second season in April, but was derailed as writers and performers seek an increase in wages from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Writing on the four episodes was completed before the Writers Guild of America struck on May 2nd. Amazon representatives note that the shooting delay means the second season wouldn’t have arrived until 2025 and Prime Video already has a full slate of scheduled content.
Jacobson responded to the news via social media and blamed the cancellation on the AMPTP:
What luck I have had to get to tell these stories and play this character I love so much. What a rare thing in life. And so I am sad today.
To blame this cancellation on the strike is bullshit and cowardly. But this post isn’t about all that. About all the ways this show has been put through the ringer. Not today.
This post here is about the special show I was lucky to make with so many incredibly talented artists and actors and writers and crew. A show I’m so proud of. Filled to the brim with stories worth telling. Full of so much heart and soul and value.
Thank you for watching.
To the five.
What do you think? Did you watch season one of this series? Were you planning to watch season two of A League of Their Own?
I happened to love it, that’s how I know it would be canceled!
Great show. Sad to see it go.
I’m trying to find a way to write this professionally and not angry but honestly at this point I really hope these streaming services and networks just shoot them selves in the foot. If you could see the amount of tv shows I own on dvd and how many hours of television shows I watched over my life and then compare it to what I watch now, it’s a huge difference. I almost don’t want to invest anymore time in new series because first of all they only get 10 episodes if you’re lucky as opposed to 22 and they… Read more »
When you can simply postpose things, as many other productions will also do, this kind of reasoning statement just smacks of the lie that it obviously is.
So, if it wasn’t canceled because of the strike, then the only other logical conclusion must be that the show sucked and nobody wanted to watch a second season. Don’t apply logic to Hollywood, however.