Amazon’s Prime Video has canceled Étoile after a single season — although the streamer had initially requested for 2.
The information comes about six weeks after the sequence, from Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, premiered its full eight-episode season. Étoile is about on the planet of ballet and facilities on the heads of historic however struggling corporations in New York and Paris (performed by Maisel alum Luke Kirby and Charlotte Gainsbourg) determine to swap their principal dancers.
Prime Video gave the present a two-season, straight-to-series order in 2023 as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was in its ultimate season. Such offers typically have contingencies, nevertheless, by which a streamer or community can choose out after a part of a multi-season order. That was the case with Étoile.
Within the three weeks of Étoile’s launch for which knowledge is on the market, the present has not dented Nielsen’s prime 10 streaming charts. That will make a second season of the dear sequence, which filmed on location in New York and Paris, a tricky promote. Amazon MGM Studios, which produces the present and the place the Palladinos have an general deal, can also be going via a management change: Former studio head Jen Salke, who greenlit Étoile, left Amazon in late March (although she struck a producing deal on her approach out). TV chief Vernon Sanders and movie boss Courtenay Valenti proceed to run their respective divisions, now reporting on to Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and the studio, fairly than Salke.
Together with Kirby and Gainsbourg, Étoile stars Gideon Glick, Lou de Laâge, David Alvarez, Ivan du Pontavice, Taïs Vinolo, David Haig, LaMay Zhang and Simon Callow. Sherman-Palladino and Palladino government produced the sequence with Dhana Rivera Gilbert. Scott Ellis was co-EP.
Deadline first reported the information.