By Kevin Haas
Rock River Current
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ROCKFORD — “A League of Their Own” won’t get its second and final season as originally planned.
Amazon confirmed Monday that the show centered around the Rockford Peaches has been canceled, citing the length of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes as the reason in an article on Deadline.
The stars of the streaming show came to the Coronado Performing Arts Center in June 2022 to debut the first of its eight episodes. This spring, a final four-episode second season was announced, but Deadline reported that the strikes extended the production timeline into 2024. That means the show would not have premiered until 2024, creating a logjam in Amazon’s planned 2025 lineup.
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The show’s co-creator Abbi Jacobson, who also stars as the Peaches’ catcher Carson Shaw, wrote on Instagram that blaming the cancellation on the strike was “cowardly.”
“To blame this cancellation on the strike, which is an essential fight for fair wages, protections and working conditions, etc … is bullshit and cowardly,” she wrote. “But this post isn’t about all that. About all the ways this show has been put through the ringer. Not today.”
Fans of the show took to social media earlier this year to call for “A League of Their Own” to get more than four episodes for its final season. They were back again asking Amazon to save the show, saying it provided an important outlet for LGBTQ stories. Jacobson’s post has garnered more than 107,000 likes and 3,400 comments.
“I was lucky to make (this show) with so many incredibly talented artists and actors and writers and crew,” Jacobson wrote. “A show I’m so proud of. Filled to the brim with stories worth telling. Full of so much heart and soul and value.
The series was an adaption of the classic 1992 film with the same name by Penny Marshal, but the new version examined race and gender barriers and had an ensemble of queer characters.
“We will work hard and try to find (‘A League of Their Own’) a new, more supportive home — we will fight,” writer Desta Tedros Reff wrote on X. “Because this show and these characters deserve to live on. But know that the already do.”
This article is by Kevin Haas. Email him at khaas@rockrivercurrent.com or follow him on X at @KevinMHaas or Instagram @thekevinhaas and Threads @thekevinhaas