Paramount Network was going to air Heathers in March, and then the Parkland shooting happened on Valentine’s Day. It was then rescheduled to run for July, but then there was another deadly school shooting. Finally, in July, they decided they were not going to air the remake of the 1989 movie.
Or so we thought. Today, Shannen Doherty announced the postponed, postponed, cancelled show will be airing 9 of its 10 episodes beginning on October 25 and ending on the 29th.
Why the change of heart? They heavily edited the episodes, so it will be suitable for air during these times. Let’s just hope and pray there is not another reason to postpone/cancel the show again. Because that would be mean there was another school shooting and we never need another one of those.
No word if they will go ahead with the second season that was almost completed in the writing room.
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It is a busy day over at Paramount Network. They announced today that Younger will be moving from its sister station TV Land over to them for season six in the spring.
Not only that, they picked up a new series from Younger’s creator Darren Star that will debut in the summer. Emily in Paris is about a woman who “heads to the city of lights in this dramedy centered on Emily, a driven twenty-something American woman from the Midwest, who moves to Paris for an unexpected job opportunity, tasked with bringing an American point of view to a venerable French marketing firm.”
Finally, they cancelled American Woman, the ’70s set dramedy that starred Alicia Silverstone. This is technically the first show to get cancelled on the new network. I say technically because they never wound up airing the small screen adaptation of Heathers due to multiple school shootings.
At least Yellowstone with Kevin Costner is a hit for them and will be back with a second season.
Melissa McCarthy produced sitcom Nobodies was given a second season renewal on TV Land. Then it was moved to its sister station Paramount Network. After 2 airings on its new home, it was returned to its original one. I guess neither liked it, so according to The Hollywood Reporter, it was cancelled.
Personally, I am surprised it was picked up for a second season because it was one of the unfunniest comedies I have ever seen.
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Alicia Silverstone is once again living in Beverly Hills, but tonight at 10p on Paramount Network she is doing it in the ’70s. American Woman is not Claire Horowitz grown up because she would have chosen better than this.
Remember in 2008, when CBS took us back to the Disco era with the drama Swingtown? All you wanted to do was put on your boogie shoes and travel back in time? This show will not cause you to feel the same way.
Bonnie (Silvertone) is a rich Beverly Hills wife, who is expected to be just that. Her husband (James Tupper) wants her to stay home and take care of him and their children. Even if he is messing around behind her back. When she finds that out, she kicks him out of the house. Shortly after she does, she finds out he has embezzled all of their money away and she is broke.
Now she has to get a job and support herself. In a time when women are first entering the job force. How will she handle her new life going from a Beverly Hills Housewife to a working single mom?
She still has her small group of friends, but what about the ones who just pretended to like her when she had money. Will they want to know her now that she does not?
When it comes to her friends, Kathleen (Mena Suvari) wants to work in the movies. She will do anything to get that job. Diana (Jennifer Bartels) works in a bank, but all of the men keep getting ahead while she is stuck in the same job. She wants to be treated equal, but her boss does not agree.
This is a time when women were finally getting out of the house and earning their own ways. This is the story of three women hoping to the same.
I wish I could say more positive things about it, but somehow this half-hour drama makes the groovy ’70s look absolutely dull. Even the clothes are a downer and they should be upper like the drugs they are taking back then. There is sex, drugs and Rock’n’Roll on this show and even that cannot save American Woman.
I thought of something positive to say. As much as I hated American Woman, I liked it so much better than Freeform’s Cloak & Dagger that debuts at 8p tonight. I cannot even review the teen drama because after watching two episodes, I still have absolutely no idea what is going on on the show.
Heathers was supposed to air on TV Land, but then it was moved to its new sister channel Paramount Network. Then the series based on the 1988 movie was supposed to debut in March, but then the Parkland shooting happened. Then the show about kids from a high school suddenly dying off was moved to July, but then the Sante Fe shooting happened. Therefore now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, it will not be airing at all on their network.
All hope is not dead, like one of the Heathers, it is being shopped around along with its second season that was mostly written and set in another era.
When it comes to decision, I think they made the right one. The dark comedy was able to get away its plot in the late ’80s because we were still 10 years away from school shootings. Now in the year of 2018, it is a little too real. Especially since one episode starts off with what looks like a school shooting, but was really a kid playing a video game. If they could get rid of the deaths, then maybe it can air. But that is a major plot point, so there is no way around it.
When it comes to basing the show around the time of Marie Antoinette, I am actually interested in that. Translation, let them eat cake!
