Amazon’s Prime Video has cemented its name among the most successful streaming services, with a diverse set of original projects, whether films or TV series. However, after recently canceling Bosch: Legacy, the streamer has now canceled yet another show.

The comedy sitcom Clean Slate premiered on Feb. 6 to positive reviews. It was co-created by Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black) and George Wallace (Batman Forever), who also starred in the sitcom. However, despite the poor reviews, Deadline officially confirmed Prime Video axed Clean Slate after one season.

Cox, Wallace, and co-creator Dan Ewen confirmed the news in a guest column on the outlet, detailing the show’s origins and further details about the show. Clean Slate was one of the last series veteran producer Norman Lear produced before his death in 2023, as the series had been originally announced in January 2020 by Peacock. Development took several years, moving from Peacock to IMDB TV (now known as Amazon Freevee) in February 2021, and later to Prime Video in December 2024.

“By the end of March, our eight-episode series, our labor of love, was canceled,” the co-creators shared. “A seven-year effort was gone in a puff of server exhaust.”

The co-creators detailed the journey from pitching the series, their conversations with the late Norman Lear, and the initial title as Sanford and Daughter. They added, “The process of finding a home for the show was full of stops, starts and a few horrifying, non-validated parking scenarios.”

“Let it be known that Norman Lear’s final comedy room was an intersectional, authentic thing of beauty, and the stuff of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s nightmares,” they clarified about the diverse LGBTQ+ comedy series.

“Thank you to everyone who laughed and cried with us. Thank you to everyone who told us our show was exactly what you needed to see and feel during this dark time,” the column notes at the end. “Conversations will continue about where and how Desiree and Harry’s journey might continue. We would love to further the echo of Norman’s voice. We will push to keep the story alive, for the sake of the kind of people portrayed in it, the kind of people being legislated out of existence, or erased from history books.”

Clean Slate follows Harry Slate (Wallace), “an old-school and outspoken Alabama car wash owner,” who is excited to reunite with his estranged son after 23 years, only to find out that his child is now Desiree (Cox), a proud trans woman. The sitcom also starred Jay Wilkison, Norah Murphy, D.K. Uzoukwu, Telma Hopkins, and Phillip Garcia.

Following its debut in early February, Clean Slate impressed the critics and received positive reviews from the audience. The sitcom has an excellent 89% score from the critics, alongside the Certified Fresh badge, and 82% from the audience on the Popcornmeter, praising “the new age Norman Lear production” as an “uplifting, heart-filled world in tune with the stylish workings of the one and only, Laverne Cox.”

Clean Slate Season 1 is streaming on Prime Video.

Source: Deadline

Clean Slate

Release Date

February 6, 2025