“A League of Their Own” creator Abbi Jacobson is furious at the cancellation of her show. Prime Video is not moving forward with the previously ordered second — and final — season of comedy-drama A League Of Their Own, cocreated and starring Jacobson, Deadline has learned.
The series was a reimagining of the 1992 film, A League of Their Own, which was about the women who formed their own professional baseball league during World War II.
Jacobson was Carson Shaw, D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place) was Greta Gill, and Chanté Adams was Max Chapman in the series. Production delays wrought by the ongoing Hollywood strikes was blamed by Prime sources for the demise.
That excuse didn’t sit well with Jacobson. “To blame this cancellation on the strike is bulls–t and cowardly,” Jacobson wrote Friday in an Instagram post. “But this post isn’t about all that.
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