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While virtually everyone loves bacon, not the same can be said of Dick. Amazon has cancelled its I Love Dick TV show after one short season. The half-hour series, from Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins debuted as part of Amazon’s pilot season on August 19, 2016, with the first full season premiering on May 12 of last year.
An Amazon original, I Love Dick stars Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Hahn, Griffin Dunne, Roberta Colindrez, India Menuez, and Lily Mojekwu. A TV show adaptation of the Chris Kraus novel, I Love Dick centers on NYC Indie filmmaker Chris (Hahn). After her film is pulled from the Venice International Film Festival, she ends up in artsy Marfa, Texas, where her writer husband Sylvère (Dunne) is spending a year in residency at the Institute, run by acclaimed artist Dick Jarrett (Bacon). Meeting Dick upends their marriage and lives.
Today, Amazon also cancelled Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi, as well as Jean-Claude Van Johnson. On the upside, earlier today, they renewed The Tick for season two.
Deadline reports:
Amazon is doing more clearing the decks with the cancellation of three comedy series: Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi, Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Jean-Claude Van Johnson.
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“This is part of a move towards bigger, wider-audience series,” an Amazon insider told Deadline.
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I Love Dick was creator Soloway’s follow-up Amazon series to her Golden Globe-winning family comedy Transparent. Despite a big-name cast led by Kevin Bacon, the series did not connect with audiences the way Transparent has. Amazon Studios still remains in the Soloway business with a big overall deal for future series.
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Amazon, which is on the hunt for big, broad drama hits, has dramatically pared down its comedy series slate, once populated heavily of quirky, underrated half-hour shows. Besides Globe-winning Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and just-renewed freshman hit The Tick, all other existing comedy series have been canceled, and the streaming platform also recently opted not to pick up any of the three comedy pilots from its most recent fall pilot season.
What do you think? Have you watched the first and only season of the I Love Dick TV series? Did this Amazon TV show deserve to be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Sound off, in comments.
I loved ‘I Love Dick’!! Great show, great cast! Much better than ‘The Tick’, which is as immature as a show can get. Please bring back I Love Dick, along with Kevin Bacon and the rest of the cast. PLEASE. And please consider canceling The Tick. I watch Prime every day, and only hope the heads at Amazon Prime would consider the opinions of the public that keep them in business.
I have been waiting and waiting for the second season. I thought it was the most amazing and real program I had ever seen and had been looking forward to it from the instant I saw the advertisement. It did not disappoint at all!! This was the show that all of us were waiting for, the ones who are non-traditional in our relationships, the ones who are honest and embrace the imperfections in them. By the way the music was also simply incredible and so perfectly aligned with every scene. The struggles of Life were shown and the questions that… Read more »
I was captivated by the Series I Love Dick. I’m so disappointed it was cancelled just as it was building momentum. The characters were beautifully portrayed, and they truly captured the feel of Marfa.
‘I Love Dick’ was one of the most unique, thought provoking series I’ve seen in awhile, (right up there with Russian Doll).
Instead of putting out the same old crap, perhaps consider that providing more stories/shows such as this is what many subscribers are yearning for.
Maybe track how many watched and see your answer for yourselves how it was received?
I do hope the decision to cancel is reconsidered.
I can’t believe they cancelled this show!! I loved every character and I felt what they felt! I am so sad now 🙁
I loved “I love Dick”. I am truly saddened that there will not be a second season. I related to it in a way that I hadn’t with any other show and wish Amazon would reconsider especially considering how much money I spend on their website.
Shouldn’t have cancelled I love Dick! This show was artistic, tasteful and very much in line with feminism in our current society. I guess it was just way over the heads of some—– it was definitely a better story than orange is the new black. So confused as to how/why this was cancelled— in my opinion—big mistake!
Why in the hell do they cancel actually good shows like I Love Dick and One Mississippi??? And then they keep stupid shows like Tick!!?? I don’t get it.
I Lov Dick is profound. It is timeless. I only wish that the powers that be had been brave enough in the 1970’s to air a show like this. Granted, we didn’t have vehicles like Amazon then but we do have that now. It’s never too late. Please show us more.
I am so tired of series that are truly amazing and works of art are cancelled!! Grow a real DICK and keep the series that count! Orphan Black should have been canceled series ago… but here we are… a lack of acting… a lack of true substance and left with a series I stopped watching 2 to 3 years ago! Grow a real **** and know what your viewers are truly watching! Yah suck right about now!
Tired of Amazon BS!
I loved this show! I don’t understand why everything put out on Netflix, Amazon, etc., needs to reach a “broad audience base?!” This show was absolutely brilliant, quirky, and the characters were relatable in that certain way that I wish I could still be, but sadly am in the rat race of daily life. I was nostalgic for college days, when I was so idealistic! That’s how this show made me feel. Not sure if I’m making sense, lol! Just please put out artistic and interesting content, and feel proud (talking to you, Amazon) that you are diverse in your… Read more »
i love dick was such a good show, funny, witty, no not for the mainstream – that’s why it was such a fabulous piece of tv. don’t be so money and majority orientated Amazon. Remember art?
I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to cancel a show because it doesn’t necessarily reach a “broader audience!” That’s what Netflix does, which is why half of the Netflix originals to air are cliché, dumbed down blasè bull****. This show is good—it’s intelligent, it’s sexy, it’s provoking both physically and mentally. Why is it such a problem for shows to be good enough that some people don’t get it or relate? Does that not make it more personal? More real? Raw? It sucks to hear I Love Dick is being cancelled and it especially sucks to hear it’s for the sake… Read more »
Too bad. Enjoyed S1&S2. Love You More/Bridget Everett pilot was good, also.
Amazon has to compete in this new world of streaming. Disney’s new service should be online next year. Netflix is competitive, but servicing a huge amount of debt.
I was hoping for another season of “I Love Dick.” Bummed!