Despite the Emmy-nominated comedy being renewed for a fourth and final season in 2019, which was already in production, Netflix announced the show would be cancelled on Monday, October 5.
One episode of the fourth season had reportedly been shot when production was suspended in March.
Netflix stated that the ensemble show required scenes that were too “physically intimate,” making it difficult to shoot under Covid conditions.
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“Covid has killed actual humans. It’s a national tragedy and should be our focus. Covid also apparently took down our show,” creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch told Deadline.
“Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW. We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. And wrestle. And now that’s gone.
“There’s a lot of sh***y things happening in the world that are much bigger than this right now. But it still sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 women in a frame together again.”
Lead star Alison Brie posted about the news on Instagram, writing: “Going to miss this... Forever grateful to my GLOW family for changing my life forever.”
Meanwhile, Netflix has also cancelled a newer title, Teenage Bounty Hunters, after just one season.
The cancellation comes just two months after the ten-episode series premiered on the service.
The latest cancellations follow a number of recent titles Netflix has halted, including Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, which was axed just after it was awarded an Emmy.
This year alone, Netflix has also cancelled The Society, I Am Not Okay With This, Altered Carbon, Spinning Out and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
