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NETFLIX CANCELS GLOW, FOURTH SEASON WILL NOT RESUME PRODUCTION

Deadline.com reported this afternoon that the fourth and final season of Netflix's GLOW, loosely based on the classic 1980s women's wrestling promotion, will not resume production and has been officially canceled by the streaming service.

"COVID has killed actual humans. It’s a national tragedy and should be our focus. COVID also apparently took down our show. Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW,” series creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch said in a statement to Deadline. “We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. And wrestle. And now that’s gone. There’s a lot of sh*tty things happening in the world that are much bigger than this right now. But it still sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 women in a frame together again.”

The series' fourth season began filming in February but production was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic the next month.  They had completed the filming of one episode at the time of the shutdown.

Betty Gilpin, who played Liberty Bell on the series was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series the 2020 Emmy Awards, the second year in a row that Gilpin received that nomination.  GLOW also received nominations in two additional categories kin the 2020 Emmys for Outstanding Production design for a narrative program (half-hour) for the episode "Up, Up, Up" and Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama (Half-Hour) for the episode "The Libertines."    Those nomination were from the show's third, now final season.

GLOW, based on the 1980s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling troupe and TV series, scored two Emmy wins in 2018   GLOW's Stunt Coordinator Shauna Duggins won the Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or Variety Program, becoming the first woman in history to score the accolade since it was instituted in 2002.  The series also captured the Emmy for Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less).  The series was nominated for seven other Emmys that year as well.  

In 2019, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy or Variety Program.  That year, the series was also nominated for Emmys in Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic), Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series and Outstanding Period Costumes.

Over the course of it's life the series won 3 Emmys and scored 18 nominations total.

GLOW told the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Brie) a struggling actress in Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s hired to become one of the stars of GLOW, a fledgling women's wrestling series.  Unfortunately, Ruth must compete with her former best friend Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin), a former soap actress. Meanwhile, world-weary washed-up film director Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron) has to create, train and maintain this eclectic troupe of women while trying to get the series off the ground.   

The first season of the series, a fictional period piece set in the 1980s based on the original David McLane Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling promotion, was named the Best TV series of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly.   

Among those featured in the cast were AEW's Kia "Awesome Kong" Stevens, who consistently steals her scenes as Tamme Dawson aka The Welfare Queen and delivered an amazing performance in the fourth episode of Season Two.  That episode was named by Entertainment Weekly as the best TV episode of any series in 2018.

 

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