4 TV Shows That Premiered in 2025 & Were Cancelled After Only 1 Season
Clean Slate
Network: Prime Video
Premiere date: February 6
Cancelled by: April 18
“By the end of March, our eight-episode series, our labor of love, was canceled. A seven-year effort was gone in a puff of server exhaust. The following piece from we, the creators of Clean Slate, soon materialized. Please forgive the word count. This s–t was cheaper than therapy,” the show’s Laverne Cox, George Wallace and co-creator Dan Ewen wrote in an op-ed on Deadline after the announcement that the show has been canceled. It was the last completed series produced by the legendary Norman Lear before his death in 2023.
The heartfelt Norman Lear comedy follows Harry (Wallace), an old-school car wash owner in Alabama who has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he thought was a son returns as a proud, trans woman, Desiree (Cox). Her homecoming brings together a hilarious cast of friends, coworkers, and love interests, as Desiree and Harry try to get it right the second time around.
Suits LA
Network: NBC
Premiere date: February 23
Cancelled by: May 9
The Suits spinoff was canceled after just one season after premiering earlier this year.
Here’s the logline: “Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself to represent the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while we slowly unravel the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.”
NBCUniversal’s President of Program Planning Strategy Jeff Bader said: “it’s so hard to talk about shows and which ones we’re bringing back.”
He continued: “Suits: LA had a very short run, but it really has not resonated [with audiences in] the way we thought it would. There can be many, many reasons why it hasn’t resonated, but it’s just not showing the potential to grow for us in the future, unfortunately. Those are the decisions we had to make.”
He added: “We had to look at the performance of the shows, both on linear and on digital. We had to see the ones that looked like they had growth potential in the future. We’re looking at how stable they are in their linear performance, how stable they are on digital which ones are growing, which ones are declining. And we had to make some hard decisions.”
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