Editor’s Note: Deadline reveals here for the first time that Clean Slate has been canceled by Prime Video. The last completed project involving Norman Lear, the comedy featured Laverne Cox and George Wallace as an estranged daughter and father from Mobile, Alabama trying to reconnect after decades apart amid tensions over trans rights and a changing America. In a guest column, Cox, Wallace and co-creator Dan Ewen reveal the cancellation news, the show’s origins and the flag of dignity they believe it flew.
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Clean Slate premiered on Prime Video on February 6th.
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By the end of March, our eight-episode series, our labor of love, was canceled.
A seven-year effort was gone in a puff of server exhaust. The following piece from we, the creators of Clean Slate, soon materialized. Please forgive the word count. This shit was
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