Laverne Cox’s Clean Slate Cancelled at Prime Video: ‘We Mourn Our Baby’
April 18, 2025
It’s one and done for Prime Video‘s Clean Slate, starring Laverne Cox and George Wallace. The Norman Lear-produced comedy has been cancelled.
Co-created by Cox, Wallace and Dan Ewen, the eight-episode series centered around Desiree (Cox), a transgender woman who returned to her Alabama hometown and reunites with her father (Wallace) for the first time since she transitioned.
“We’re not gonna sit here and pretend we’re the first show to get canceled,” reads an except from an article penned by Cox, Wallace and Ewen for our sister site Deadline. “Hell, four shows were zapped while you read this. We humbly thank those at Sony and Amazon who worked on and on the behalf of Clean Slate. It is a privilege and a joy to make a living in the creative sphere, let alone while telling a story of import. You helped make it all possible.”
They continue: “Of course, we mourn our baby. We mourn for the jobs that disappear with this news. We mourn the continued demise of non-IP creations (for the record, we would’ve gladly thrown some dragons into Harry’s car wash, or made Desiree a secret agent). We mourn full seasons. We mourn Norman, and his bravery, and his not infrequent cursing. We mourn sister projects that face a similar fate. We mourn the characters being scrubbed from storytelling out of fear.”
All eight episodes of Clean Slate dropped on Feb. 6. Are you disappointed that it won’t be getting a second season? Drop a comment with your thoughts below.
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