Another Showtime scripted original series has aired.
Paramount Global Supported Premium Cable Network CanceledI Love That For You, Comedy inspired by star and co-creator of Vanessa Bayer’s childhood experience with leukemia. The comedy ran for one season and was one of the few scripted series under the cabler’s previous administration expected to be bought by the producers Annapurna.
I Love That For You Available in May 30 with rave reviews and ends its run after one month. The series reunites Molly Shannon with Bayer , who co-stars on Saturday Night Live, for nearly a year Been waiting for news about its future.
“I Love That For You has finished showing on Showtime. We would like to thank Vanessa, Jeremy [Beiler , co-creator] and Jessi [Klein, EP], and the incredible cast and crew for their hard work and wish them all the best,” a Showtime spokesperson said in a statement The Hollywood Reporter.
The comedy is the last remaining script after Paramount Global merged with Showtime with Paramount+ following the departure of executive David One of the originals is Nevins, who oversees cabler as part of his portfolio. Showtime was subsequently added to the remit of Paramount Worldwide CEO Bob Bakish’s favorite Chris McCarthy , who from MTV Studios installed its own executive team and saw many of Nevins’ top lieutenants either leave or be brought out.
McCarthy has been censoring all of Showtime’s shows since arriving on the network and canceled L Word : Generation Q, American Gigolo, Let the Right One In and the variety series Ziwe, while also selling the core of the current development program of original lead Gary Levine and Jana Winograde . After Showtime ran for 30 years, Levine is still a consultant, and Winograde was eliminated after Three Women moved to Starz and King Shaka was dropped.
