‘Etoile' Canceled at Amazon After One Season — Despite Two-Season Order
Amazon's Prime Video has canceled Étoile after a single season — even though the streamer had initially asked for two.
The news comes about six weeks after the series, from Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, premiered its full eight-episode season. Étoile is set in the world of ballet and centers on the heads of historic but struggling companies in New York and Paris (played by Maisel alum Luke Kirby and Charlotte Gainsbourg) who decide to swap their principal dancers.
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Prime Video gave the show a two-season, straight-to-series order in 2023 as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was in its final season. Such deals often have contingencies, however, by which a streamer or network can opt out after part of a multi-season order. That was the case with Étoile.
In the three weeks of Étoile's release for which data is available, the show has not dented Nielsen's top 10 streaming charts. That would make a second season of the pricey series, which filmed on location in New York and Paris, a tough sell. Amazon MGM Studios, which produces the show and where the Palladinos have an overall deal, is also going through a leadership change: Former studio head Jen Salke, who greenlit Étoile, left Amazon in late March (though she struck a producing deal on her way out). TV chief Vernon Sanders and film boss Courtenay Valenti continue to run their respective divisions, now reporting directly to Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and the studio, rather than Salke.
Along with Kirby and Gainsbourg, Étoile stars Gideon Glick, Lou de Laâge, David Alvarez, Ivan du Pontavice, Taïs Vinolo, David Haig, LaMay Zhang and Simon Callow. Sherman-Palladino and Palladino executive produced the series with Dhana Rivera Gilbert. Scott Ellis was co-EP.
Deadline first reported the news.
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