EXCLUSIVE: Adieu, Étoile. Prime Video isn’t continuing with a second season of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s ballet drama collection, Deadline has discovered. The streamer and Amazon MGM Studios will proceed to help the collection’ Emmy marketing campaign within the comedy classes.
In the Palladinos’ followup to their important and business hit for Prime Video, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, they acquired a two-season preliminary pickup for Étoile in 2023. (Mrs. Maisel itself scored Prime Video’s first multi-year order with a two-season pickup in 2017 off a pilot. Étoile was ordered straight-to-series. )
While most multi-season orders end in multi-season runs, that’s not assured, and there have been exceptions. There continues to be an analysis course of after every season that triggers a proper inexperienced mild with contingencies inbuilt. That is one thing Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power goes by, getting a Season 2 and, most just lately a Season 3 renewal regardless of Amazon having an settlement with the property of Lord of the Rings writer J.R.R. Tolkien for a 50-hour TV adaptation.
For Étoile, the choice to not proceed with the second season below the two-year pickup got here down largely to efficiency vs. value. It isn’t believed to be tied to the regime change at Amazon MGM Studios because the collection was ordered below former head Jennifer Salke who exited in March.
A ardour venture for Sherman-Palladino who has a ballet background, the eight-episode Étoile follows the dancers and creative employees of two world-renowned ballet firms in New York and Paris as they embark on an bold gambit to save lots of their storied establishments by swapping their most proficient stars.
The ballet setting might have been a deterrent for informal followers past Amy Sherman-Palladino’s loyal fan base which have adopted her from The Gilmore Girls to a different ballet-themed collection, Bunheads, to Mrs. Maisel.
Dropped as a uncommon (for Prime Video) binge on April 24, Étoile didn’t chart on Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 for Originals. It additionally was dethroned as No.1 on Prime Video’s personal Top 10 after per week or so by Reacher, which had not launched unique episodes since March. Étoile quickly left the Top 10 altogether the place The Wheel of Time, which was recently canceled by Prime Video, nonetheless has a presence virtually two months after its Season 3 finale.
Living as much as its bold premise, Étoile is dear to make. It movies in New York and Paris utilizing iconic historic buildings as backdrop. The collection additionally created its personal ballet firm comprised by high dancers from all over the world and entails elaborate dance sequences.
Additionally, whereas nicely reviewed (85% on Rotten Tomatoes), Étoile has not loved the common acclaim of predecessor The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and it has not generated sturdy buzz on social media.
But it has re-started a dialog about the way forward for the humanities. Born out of the pandemic, which shut down theaters, Étoile is love letter to ballet and the dance neighborhood and urges individuals to do their half in maintaining the humanities alive.
Jack (Luke Kirby) in ‘Étoile’
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Étoile‘s cancellation leaves the series open-ended as the Season 1 finale set up multiple storylines, including a romantic entanglement among several characters brought upon by Jack (Luke Kirby) and Cheyenne’s (Lou de Laâge) kiss on the very finish of the episode.
The forged of Étoile contains Mrs. Maisel alums Kirby and Gideon Glick, Charlotte Gainsbourg, de Laâge in her first English-speaking position, David Alvarez, Ivan du Pontavice, Taïs Vinolo, David Haig, LaMight Zhang, and Simon Callow. Gilmore Girls‘ Yanic Truesdale was a recurring guest, with Gilmore Girls and Bunheads’ Kelly Bishop additionally making appearances.
From Amazon MGM Studios, Étoile was govt produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino, and Dhana Rivera Gilbert. Scott Ellis served as co-executive producer.