EXCLUSIVE: Adieu, Étoile. Prime Video isn’t continuing with a second season of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s ballet drama sequence, Deadline has realized. The streamer and Amazon MGM Studios will proceed to assist the sequence’ Emmy marketing campaign within the comedy classes.
Within the Palladinos’ followup to their important and industrial hit for Prime Video, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, they obtained a two-season preliminary pickup for Étoile in 2023. (Mrs. Maisel itself scored Prime Video’s first multi-year order with a two-season pickup in 2017 off a pilot. Étoile was ordered straight-to-series. )
Whereas most multi-season orders end in multi-season runs, that’s not assured, and there have been exceptions. There’s nonetheless an analysis course of after every season that triggers a proper inexperienced gentle with contingencies in-built. That’s one thing Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy goes by means of, getting a Season 2 and, most just lately a Season 3 renewal regardless of Amazon having an settlement with the property of Lord of the Rings writer J.R.R. Tolkien for a 50-hour TV adaptation.
For Étoile, the choice to not proceed with the second season below the two-year pickup got here down largely to efficiency vs. value. It isn’t believed to be tied to the regime change at Amazon MGM Studios because the sequence was ordered below former head Jennifer Salke who exited in March.
A ardour challenge for Sherman-Palladino who has a ballet background, the eight-episode Étoile follows the dancers and inventive workers of two world-renowned ballet corporations in New York and Paris as they embark on an bold gambit to save lots of their storied establishments by swapping their most proficient stars.
The ballet setting might have been a deterrent for informal followers past Amy Sherman-Palladino’s loyal fan base which have adopted her from The Gilmore Ladies to a different ballet-themed sequence, Bunheads, to Mrs. Maisel.
Dropped as a uncommon (for Prime Video) binge on April 24, Étoile didn’t chart on Nielsen’s weekly High 10 for Originals. It additionally was dethroned as No.1 on Prime Video’s personal High 10 after every week or so by Reacher, which had not launched authentic episodes since March. Étoile quickly left the High 10 altogether the place The Wheel of Time, which was recently canceled by Prime Video, nonetheless has a presence virtually two months after its Season 3 finale.
Residing as much as its bold premise, Étoile is dear to make. It movies in New York and Paris utilizing iconic historic buildings as backdrop. The sequence additionally created its personal ballet firm comprised by prime dancers from around the globe and entails elaborate dance sequences.
Moreover, whereas properly reviewed (85% on Rotten Tomatoes), Étoile has not loved the common acclaim of predecessor The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and it has not generated robust buzz on social media.
But it surely has re-started a dialog about the way forward for the humanities. Born out of the pandemic, which shut down theaters, Étoile is love letter to ballet and the dance group and urges folks to do their half in holding the humanities alive.
Jack (Luke Kirby) in ‘Étoile’
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Étoile‘s cancellation leaves the sequence open-ended because the Season 1 finale arrange a number of storylines, together with a romantic entanglement amongst a number of characters introduced upon by Jack (Luke Kirby) and Cheyenne’s (Lou de Laâge) kiss on the very finish of the episode.
The solid of Étoile consists of Mrs. Maisel alums Kirby and Gideon Glick, Charlotte Gainsbourg, de Laâge in her first English-speaking position, David Alvarez, Ivan du Pontavice, Taïs Vinolo, David Haig, LaMay Zhang, and Simon Callow. Gilmore Ladies‘ Yanic Truesdale was a recurring visitor, with Gilmore Ladies and Bunheads’ Kelly Bishop additionally making appearances.
From Amazon MGM Studios, Étoile was govt produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino, and Dhana Rivera Gilbert. Scott Ellis served as co-executive producer.
