It looks like the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling won’t be coming back, with the news that beloved Netflix series GLOW has been cancelled thanks to the COVID pandemic, Deadline has confirmed.
Despite one episode being filmed of the show’s fourth season and another having commenced prior to the announcement, season four of GLOW apparently won’t be completed after Netflix reversed a decision made in August 2019 to renew the female wrestling comedy-drama.
GLOW co-creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch told the publication: “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. 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 shitty 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.”
Flahive and Mensch added: “We’ll miss our cast of weirdo clowns and our heroic crew. It was the best job.”
Cast members have also expressed their disappointment, with Marc Maron writing on Twitter, “No more GLOW. Sorry. Stinks.”
Netflix also released a statement in regards to the cancellation, which read:
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“We’ve made the difficult decision not to do a fourth season of GLOW due to COVID, which makes shooting this physically intimate show with its large ensemble cast especially challenging,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline.
“We are so grateful to creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, Jenji Kohan and all the writers, cast and crew for sharing this story about the incredible women of GLOW with us and the world.”
Upon hearing the sad news, fans of the iconic show took to Twitter to take aim at Netflix for reneging on their original agreement.
“WHY. WHY CANCEL #GLOW WHEN YOU ALREADY GAVE THE GO-AHEAD FOR SEASON 4! WE CAN WAIT A YEAR! Just cancel everything since apparently everything is just TOO HARD. SO FRUSTRATED,” one angry fan vented.
“Yo @netflix you need to reverse again because I doubt anyone would mind waiting as long as it takes to get a final season of this wonderful show,” another wrote.
GLOW starred Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin and Marc Maron, with the story being adapted from the real-life tales of a group of wrestlers put together for a short-lived satellite channel programme in LA in the 1980s.
Similarly, Netflix has opted not to pick up a second season of Teenage Bounty Hunters, just two months after the series’ debut on the streaming platform on August 14th.
