Prime Video cancels Laverne Cox’s Clean Slate after one season

Prime Video has cancelled the TV series for Laverne Cox Beautiful slate Just one season later, the transpositive comedy scored an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Cox – The iconic trans actress who previously played Sofia Bursett The orange is a new black Casey Duke Inn Anna’s invention – After 20 years of alienation, she appeared in the series as Digily, a trans woman who relocates to a family home in Alabama to repair her relationship with her father, Harry (George Wallace).

Harry is said to be the “old-fashioned car wash owner” and expects his son to appear “candidly,” so some might imagine it as a series full of intolerance and desire. However, from the moment he first saw his daughter, Harry is very welcome despite his initial shock.

The series, created by Cox, Wallace and Dan Ewen, was praised for being a striking expression in the trans community during anti-trans enthusiasm from the Trump administration. At the time of writing, the show received 89% tomatometers and 82% popcorn meters.

Nevertheless, Beautiful slate It has been cancelled by Prime Video. deadline The February 2025 series reported that it was cancelled after eight episodes were run at the end of March. The reason for the station cancelling the series is still unknown.

“The server exhaust puffs have left the seven years of effort gone,” the creator wrote in a guest column. Beautiful slate It’s come true and it’s finally here.

“We’re not going to sit here and pretend to be the first show that was cancelled. Hell, four shows were zapped while you read this. Beautiful slateI read the column. You helped make it all possible.

“Of course we lament the baby. We lament the work of disappearing with this news. We lament the continued end of non-IP creations (for the record, we were happily thrown into Harry’s car wash or made Desiree a secret agent.” [Lear, one of the series’ executive producers, who died in 2023 before the show aired]his courage, and his infrequent curse. We lament the sister project facing a similar fate. The column continued.

“The conversation continues about where and how Desiree and Harry’s journey will continue. We push for keeping the story alive for the kinds of people portrayed within it, for those who are legislated from being or erased from history books.”