![]() ![]() The list of queer-centered shows with long runs is a short one: The L Word, Orange is the New Black, Wentworth, The Fosters and Transparent. This list focuses on shows cancelled after one season, but when it comes to shows with LGBTQ+ women and/or trans leads, we’re especially prone to getting an axe after season two or three, like One Mississippi, Take My Wife, Vida, Lip Service, Work in Progress, Batwoman, Pose, Gentleman Jack, Faking It, Betty, Dickinson, Feel Good, Sense8, Trinkets and Hightown. We often see queer content obscured in marketing materials due to some kind of internalized network homophobia, leaving queer media and audiences in the dark until we simply watch the entire show ourselves and initiate the gay word-of-mouth ourselves. Not a single one of the shows on this list has advertised their show on - and in fact, Netflix and Prime Video have never directly purchased advertising from our website.We rarely see networks make obvious financial investments in promoting their queerest shows, in mainstream media or with queer media. But those cancellations tend to hit our community hard, especially when their hosts so consistently fail to promote their shows to queer audiences or advertise with queer media and often intentionally obscure their LGBTQ+ content from promotional materials. Statistically speaking, this doesn’t necessarily mean that queer-inclusive shows are cancelled after one season more often than shows that don’t have LGBTQ+ characters, although it’s difficult to determine what numbers to compare our numbers to (and our science is imprecise - “shows Autostraddle tracks” isn’t necessarily a quantitative body we can compareĭifficult to get comparable numbers (instead we have patches of information like that 68% of network shows are cancelled before a second season, and that Netflix cancels 11% of the shows it releases in any given year). We have nearly 700 TV shows in our database, which means around 20% of the queer-inclusive shows we’ve tracked are cancelled after one season. But the rest are all shows that got born, crawled into the world, won us over with their queer storylines, and then got cancelled. Of those, around 40 are limited series - shows like Little Fires Everywhere, Mrs America, Tales of the City and The Bisexual - that never intended to exist past their first season, which leaves us with 140 TV shows with queer women and/or trans characters that were cancelled after one season. There are 180 television programs in our database of TV shows featuring lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans characters that only lasted for one (1) mere season on this earth. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.The 50 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.Netflix's wrestling wrestling comedy GLOW premiered in 2017, and despite critical acclaim and a huge fan following, the streamer cancelled the show in October 2020 ending the hugely successful series before the fourth and final series had finished filming. ![]() The series premiered in January 2020 and was cancelled two months later. RuPaul's comedy series followed Ruby Red, a down-on-her-luck drag queen who makes an unlikely friend in recently orphaned, tough-talking kid, AJ. The show starred Kaya Scodelaerio as olympic figure skating hopeful Kat Baker, who grappled with mental illness, a turbulent family life with her mum (played by January Jones) and a complicated love life as she returned to skating after a terrifying accident. Netflix cancelled figure skating drama Spinning Out a month after the first series aired. Idris Elba's comedy series about a DJ who reluctantly becomes a nanny for his celebrity friend's daughters first aired in March 2019, and was cancelled in April 2020 after one season. Here's every show Netflix has cancelled so far in 2020. And while Netflix apparently has its reasons for cancelling shows after one or two seasons - we still don't love seeing our favourite series get axed so abruptly. The platform is notorious for cancelling shows and in the last few months we've lost a long list of series from Ru Paul's AJ and the Queen, T he OA, and even GLOW. ![]() Like many others, you've probably had your heart broken by Netflix in the last few months or so. ![]()
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