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 escalating COVID outbreak. They had completed one episode and had started on a second when the order came.
Shot entirely in Los Angeles, “GLOW” faced challenges with the physical requirements of wrestling making it high-risk to produce safely during COVID. It also faced high additional COVID-related costs for its large cast of twenty.
Additionally the earliest “GLOW” would have returned to air would be 2022, at least two and half years after a third season. All of the series regulars have been paid for Season 4 in full.
Series creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch said in a statement to Deadline: “Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW. 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—y 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 fifteen women in a frame together again.”
Netflix in August made a similar decision not to proceed with previously commissioned second seasons of “The Society” and “I Am Not Okay With This”.
