“Season 1 was crazy, but Season 2 is a whole other level,” he said. Speaking to IndieWire in May, Araki said he was already writing Season 2 in the hopes Starz would order more episodes.
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“Power,” “Vida,” and “The Spanish Princess” are all created and written by women, as well as upcoming original series like “Pea Valley” and “High Town.” “65 percent of the leadership roles in our series - meaning showrunners, directors, and writers - are held by women.” “Starz delivers the highest composition of female viewership in premium cable, 18 and older,” Hirsch said, adding that such high viewership is in part due to hiring women in creative leadership roles at the company. To kick off the executive session, Hirsch outlined how Starz has found success in courting “traditionally underserved audiences” which “always included female audiences,” but is focusing even more on women in the future.
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Steve James on ’America to Me’ and the Fight to Get Documentaries Seen in an Era of Too Much TV If it doesn’t, then we have to find something else that does.” So, just like ‘Now Apocalypse,’ when we look at bringing the shows back, it really has to serve that core premium female audience. We picked that show up a few years ago with a two-season commitment really before we honed into this premium female strategy. “ it was a very complicated show, it was a very male show. Justin is a great writer, and we really, really liked working with him,” Hirsch said. “Counterpart, again, great show with our partners at MRC. IndieWire has reached out to Araki for comment.Īttracting the female demo was also a factor in “Counterpart” being canceled. No specific ratings were provided for the series on Friday, though Hirsch did say Araki’s show did not serve the network’s core audience of female viewers. The genre-bending half-hour series averaged just over 89,000 viewers in linear viewership over Season 1, but it was meant to serve younger viewers on Starz’s streaming audience. “But we have made a decision not to bring it back.” It was really … a good experiment,” COO Jeffrey Hirsch said Friday afternoon. “‘Now Apocalypse’ great show, as we all know and saw. “ Now Apocalypse,” Gregg Araki’s first television series that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, has been canceled after one season at Starz.
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