‘A League of Their Own’ cancelled; second season not filmin…


	‘A League of Their Own’ cancelled; second season not filming 2023-08-19

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Prime Video is not moving forward with the previously ordered second and final season of comedy-drama A League of Their Own, which is about a WWII-era women’s professional baseball team, according to Deadline. The show’s fate is now the same as fellow Prime Video/Amazon Studios hourlong freshman series The Peripheral (starring Chloe Grace Moretz), which also had its second-season renewal reversed. Both cancellations are believed to stem from the length of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. A League of Their Ownan adaptation of the 1992 Penny Marshall-directed film of the same name that starred Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Megan Cavanagh and Rosie O’Donnell (who also played the owner of the gay bar The Office on the series)premiered last summer; after months of negotiations, the series received an order for an abbreviated four-episode second and final season in April. This year, “League” won the GLAAD Award for Outstanding New TV Series. Maybelle Blair, who was part of the original Rockford Peaches (on whom “League” was based), explained to WCT at a Rockford, Illinois event celebrating the show’s debut that being a lesbian on the team was all undergrounduntil after she came out at age 95. Andrew Davis



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