Mandy Patinkin Marriage Comedy, Gattaca Reboot Among Four Series Scrapped at Showtime
We won’t get to see Mandy Patinkin‘s adorable real-life marriage become a TV show after all.
Showtime has scrapped four series that were in the works, according to The Hollywood Reporter, led by Seasoned, a comedy based on Patinkin and his wife Kathryn Grody’s 43-year marital bond. The comedy, which was first announced last year and earned a six-episode series order at the network, was to star Patinkin and Grody and follow “the delightfully tumultuous relationship and life of a successful, gregarious, deeply committed, slightly insane married couple.”
The other casualties at Showtime include a planned series adaptation of the 1997 sci-fi film Gattaca, which originally starred Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman and was set in a future world filled with biologically superior humans born free of genetic defects. Homeland veterans Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon were attached as executive producers, with Gansa set to serve as showrunner if it went to series.
Also on the scrap heap: Sweetness, a female-led anthology series from Oscar-nominated writer Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve); and Split, a secret-agent thriller that would’ve followed the double life of an American spy. They join a number of Showtime cancellations this year, including American Gigolo and I Love That For You.
Are you sorry we won’t get to see the Patinkins on your TV? Or is another title on this list more your speed? Hit the comments to give us your take on the news.
All of those sound pretty interesting (maybe not the spy show so much)! Sad to hear it.
Really hope that Seasoned finds a home elsewhere. I don’t have Showtime/Paramount+, so if the show does land on a different service, I might have a chance to see it. Loved their videos during the pandemic.
Doesn’t sound like they even made a single episode of the show so I don’t know how likely that is.
A series based on Gattaca could have been pretty good too
That’s Oscar-winning writer Emerald Fennell
Yes! I was so happy for her when she won!
as usual showtime makes bad decisions one after another. would’ve loved to see mandy’s show & the spy show.
Well that sucks!
I remember when Showtime use to brag how they had the “best shows on television”. Now they have practically nothing. They have fallen on hard times. Starz and Mgm+ have better shows.
Most of it sounded like the same garbage no one was watching before, so the loss of money seems to be making these networks make better choices. Especially those two elitist hypocrite, married couple. They got brain damage years ago from smelling their own farts inside a bubble with no ventilation. Nobody but a handful of individuals that, like them, think they are superior to everyone else in the world, would ever watch them. That ain’t gonna pay the bills. Gattaca could have been good but I wouldn’t trust any current year show runners or directors to make it good; maybe 10 year ago.