‘Little Ellen’ Co-Creator on HBO Max Removing Show, Despite 20 Unreleased Episodes: ‘It Feels Like Being Kicked to the Curb’

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Ethan Shanfeld “Little Ellen” co-creator Jennifer Skelly found out her show would be removed from HBO Max earlier this month by reading the news.

These past few days, she’s witnessed dozens of other series meet the chopping block as Warner Bros. Discovery purges the HBO streaming platform in order to reduce costs.Not only are the first two seasons of the animated show, centered around a young Ellen DeGeneres, gone from HBO Max.

In addition, 20 fully completed, unreleased episodes — comprising the next two seasons — will never be released.“It’s really devastating,” Skelly tells Variety. “I’ve worked on a million things that have never seen the light of day, but it’s pretty rare that you get this far down the pipe — it’s literally done — and it’s still not going to see the light of day.” Shortly before the 10-episode Season 3 of “Little Ellen” was set for release in June 2022, Skelly was told that Warner Bros.

Discovery was planning on holding it until 2023. It wasn’t until August that the team found out both Seasons 3 and 4 would be shelved indefinitely.Skelly continues: “In the streaming culture, I don’t know everything about how that process is done.