League of Their Own’s Abbi Jacobson Slams Cancellation Due to Strikes

Prime Video has backtracked their season 2 renewal for A League of Their Own — and present creator and star Abbi Jacobson has spoken out.

“What luck I have had to get to tell these stories and play this character I love so much. What a rare thing in life. And so I am sad today,” Jacobson, 39, wrote by way of Instagram on Friday, August 18. “To blame this cancellation on the strike is bulls—t and cowardly. But this post isn’t about all that. About all the ways this show has been put through the ringer. Not today.”

Variety reported a number of hours earlier on Friday that Prime Video — who beforehand renewed the baseball drama in April for a restricted season — reversed their resolution. According to the outlet, Prime Video’s actions have been a consequence of the continuing SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes. Unionized TV writers and actors have been on strike since May and July, respectively, after failing to attain agreements with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) throughout contract negotiations about truthful wages, the use of synthetic intelligence and extra.

Prime Video has not additional addressed the choice to cancel A League of Their Own, which was based mostly on the 1992 film of the identical identify. Jacobson, for her half, wished to use her Friday social media submit to pay tribute to the present’s forged and crew.

“This post here is about the special show I was lucky to make with so many incredibly talented artists and actors and writers and crew. A show I’m so proud of,” the Broad City alum added on Friday. “Filled to the brim with stories worth telling. Full of so much heart and soul and value. Thank you for watching. To the five. ❤️.”

Several of Jacobson’s costars shared their help within the feedback, together with D’Arcy Carden and showrunner William Wissler Graham.

“This show f—king ruled and whoever stomped this light out sucks ass,” singer Mary Lambert replied by way of Instagram remark, noting she was a trustworthy viewer of season 1. “The stories & characters were complex, the acting was stellar, the chemistry, the costuming and sets, the writing. All of it was delicious and fun and healed my queer heart in some unnamable way—thank you for that. Y’all made magic.”

Rosie O’Donnell, who appeared in each the OG film and season 1 of the TV sequence, additionally reacted to the present’s cancellation. “Beautiful job u — a wonderful show — in every way,” O’Donnell, 61, wrote on Friday.

Season 1 of A League of Their Own premiered on Prime Video in August 2022.

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“I think that we know a lot of tent poles of where we would go if we were able to do more seasons, but it’s just tricky now. I’ve never been the kind of person that operates where I just will get another season of anything. So my mind doesn’t operate like that,” Jacobson solely informed Us Weekly on the time. “I think for season 1, we were very much like, let’s tell as much of this as we can and make us as meaty and juicy and full in every way. Every character’s as full as we can make them in case we don’t get to make more.”