While it's clear that networks and streamers are canceling a lot of series resulting from the writers' and actors' strikes, a drastic reduction in original scripted series has been on the cards for a while as Hollywood continues to make cuts.
It's also a blow to diversity in programs such as The Horror of Dolores Roach, based on a one-woman solo play, Empanada Loca, and podcast series, and Gloria Calderón Kellett's With Love, which were particularly diverse series.
Other recently canceled series include Disney+'s The Muppets Mayhem, Hallmark's Ride, Netflix's Shadow and Bone, Glamorous and Agent Elvis, Freeform's Praise Petey, ABC's The Rookie: Feds, MGM+'s Chapelwaite, Paramount+'s Rabbit Hole, Fatal Attraction and Joe Pickett as well as the end of CBS's Blue Bloods and Young Sheldon, NBC's La Brea, Paramount+'s Seal Team and The CW's Superman & Lois.
The Horror of Dolores Roach premiered in July. Justina Machado stars as a woman who is released from prison after sixteen years and returns to a very gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back.
With her boyfriend missing and her family long gone, Dolores reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis, who gives her room and board and lets her give massages for money in the basement beneath his dilapidated storefront, Empanada Loca, the only remnant of her former life. When the promise of her new-found stability is quickly threatened, Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive, and in the face of unexpected professional success, Dolores and Luis become dangerously symbiotic, and Luis must let go of his own peculiar preferences.
The series was created by Aaron Mark, who wrote the script for the pilot and served as co-showrunner and executive producer with Dara Resnik. The series is produced by Blumhouse Television. Executive producers are Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold and Chris Dickie for Blumhouse Television, Dawn Ostroff, Mimi O'Donnell and Justin McGoldrick for Spotify, Gloria Calderón Kellett for GloNation Studios and Roxann Dawson, who also produced the pilot. directed.
Harlan Coben's Shelter, which premiered in August, is a mystery drama based on Coben's 2011 YA novel. The series stars Jaden Michael, Constance Zimmer, Abby Corrigan and Adrian Greensmith.
After the sudden death of his father, Mickey Bolitar, played by Michael, begins a new life in Kasselton, New Jersey, where he becomes entangled in the mysterious disappearance of Ashley Kent, a student at his school, leading him to discover a dark underworld in the quiet suburban community.
Coben and Allen MacDonald served as showrunners for the Amazon Studios/MGM-produced series. The duo co-produced with Edward Ornelas and Erik Barmack with Patricia Cardoso, who also serves as director and Charlotte Coben as producer.
With Love ends after two seasons. The series created by Gloria Calderón Kellett premiered in 2021 and the second season started in July.
The series followed the lives of Diaz siblings Lily, played by Emeraude Toubia, and Jorge Jr, played by Mark Indelicato, during various holidays throughout the year as they searched for love.
Isis King, Vincent Rodriguez III, Rome Flynn, Desmond Chiam, Benito Martinez, Constance Marie and Todd Grinnell also played.
With Love was created and produced by Calderón Kellett and co-produced by Kellett's production company GloNation and Amazon Studios.
