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Did what happened with Minx feel like something new for you? Its near-death was part of a larger trend of networks and platforms cost-cutting this past year, but this isn’t your first go with cancellation. Minx ended up canceled while you were in production on season two at HBO Max before it was announced as being picked up by Starz. This was also not the first time Minx had to defy the odds of the industry to make it to the screen.Īhead of season two, Feig spoke to THR about the show’s initial battle to make it to the screen what made its cancellation (and revival) typical and untypical for the industry why he’s glad the show now exists on a linear channel and why he not only loves Minx‘s approach to inclusion but also its portrayal of sex and sexuality. In fact, even as news broke of the cancellation, Minx producer Lionsgate and members of the show’s creative team, including Feig, were aware that a number of interested distributors were right outside their door - with the show’s current home Starz among them. But executive producer Paul Feig tells The Hollywood Reporter that the beloved series, about the staff of a low-budget porn publisher and the feminist who helps them launch a women’s erotic magazine, wasn’t quite the story fans think it is. Minx was seemingly part of this larger industry trend and has certainly been impacted by the ongoing work stoppage, as Rapoport remained on strike with her fellow writers amid the series’ season two press tour. It’s an issue that’s at the heart of the ongoing Writers Guild strike, which kicked off on May 1, as well as the ongoing SAG-AFTRA negotiations, which were recently extended until July 12. Sara Ramirez on Tackling the Hollywood Machine, Fatphobia and "Sexual Freedom" in 'And Just Like That' Season 2 It also signaled a new, unsettling era in the streaming age for creators and their crews, who now were not just facing the standard renewal chopping block in the face of shortened seasons and lower residuals, but the possibility that their show might be pulled from a streamer with no place for it to be viewed elsewhere. Minx‘s axing sent up alarm bells in the live-action scripted space, which found itself being written off for tax purposes, much like a number of titles in the animated space earlier that year.

But by December, amid a somewhat unprecedented money-saving effort led by WBD CEO David Zaslav, the platform (now dubbed simply Max) reversed course and canceled the show’s second season with just a single week left of filming. Last May, Ellen Rapoport’s workplace comedy Minx - which caused a bit of a stir thanks to its pilot episode’s parade of private parts - was met with a resounding show of support in the form of a season two renewal at the Warner Bros.