TNT won't air Snowpiercer's already-filmed fourth and final season

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https://www.avclub.com/tnt-wont-air-...owp-1849988185

The sci-fi show's fourth season has been kicked off the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network, and is being shopped around to other outlets

By William Hughes

Well, this is just getting goddamn ridiculous at this point: Deadline reports that yet another network has decided to ****can one of its shows, after already filming an entire season of it, with news breaking today that the fourth season of Snowpiercer won’t be airing on TNT. (Which, shock of shocks, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, bold pioneers in the “paying creative people to make something and then not bothering to air it” sciences.)

To be (an extremely tiny amount of) fair, Snowpiercer had become something of an outlier on TNT at this point, being the network’s last remaining original scripted series floating amidst a sea of reruns. Also, a spokesperson for TNT claimed that it had been working with the show’s producers, Tomorrow Studios, to help shop the show around. But even so: It’s a damn lousy way to treat a bunch of people who went out and did all the hard work of filming a TV show for you, and another data point in the increasingly worrying trend of treating that kind of output as totally disposable, even by the already loose standards of TV. (See also AMC’s recent decision to dump the completed second season of Courtney B. Vance’s 61st Street.)

It’s especially notable to do this to a show that’s been around for as long as Snowpiercer has; the series, which stars Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly, isn’t a ratings juggernaut or anything, but it’s got enough fans that you’d think it would be worth it to give them an actual fourth season and a finale—especially if it already, y’know, exists, and is just sitting on a hard drive somewhere.

Deadline notes that the Snowpiercer dumping was apparently tied to all the efforts WBD made last year to turn TV shows into tax cuts, a practice the entertainment giant has said it’s now done with. (Mostly, apparently.) We did get one small note of optimism regarding this practice earlier this week, at least: Starz made headlines by picking up the already-completed second season of Minx, after HBO tax cut it into the trash.

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Snowpiercer Season 4 Gets Update As Completed Episodes Continue Search For Home

Snowpiercer season 4 gets an update from producer Marty Adelstein, as the post-apocalyptic thriller series continues its search for a new home.

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Cancelled "Snowpiercer’s" Final Season will End Up "Somewhere," Series Vet Avows
by Matt Webb Mitovich
Dec. 20, 2023


"Snowpiercer" — cancelled 11 months ago by TNT and in turn left without a home for its completed final season — will find new tracks for its farewell rotation, says cast member Mike O’Malley (who plays former brakeman Sam Roche).

TVLine recently asked O’Malley (creator of the midseason NBC comedy Extended Family) if and when "Snowpiercer‘s" swan song might see the light of day. “I’m trying to get an answer on that,” he said, noting that Season 4 boasts “incredible storytelling done by our [new] showrunner Paul Zbyszewski.”



Asked if Season 4 was written at all as a final season, O’Malley told TVLine, “We were actually hoping that we’d keep going, but I think there’s an ending to that where it could be the end, and it’s very hopeful…. So I really, really can’t wait for that show to get out there and for people to see it, because it’s awesome.”

He assured, “It's going to end up somewhere.”

https://tvline.com/news/snowpiercer-...ws-1235101192/

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Snowpiercer's fourth and final season lands on AMC

AMC has picked up the rights to all four seasons of the TNT drama series, which was canceled in January 2023 before it got the chance to air its already-completed fourth and final season. Snowpiercer was TNT's last original scripted series. “Snowpiercer is an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride with a loyal fanbase — similar to the passionate fandoms we serve across our biggest franchise series — and a welcome addition to AMC and AMC+,” said Ben Davis, executive vice president of original programming at AMC Networks and AMC Studios. “We look forward to giving viewers an opportunity to binge the first three seasons later this year, in anticipation of the arrival of a remarkable fourth season helmed by Paul Zbyszewski and this stellar cast.”

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The anticipated fourth and final season of post-apocalyptic drama series "Snowpiercer" is set to premiere on AMC and AMC+, its new home, on Sunday, July 21 at 9 pm ET/PT, the network announced Tuesday.

Seasons 1 and 2 will be available to stream exclusively on AMC+ beginning Saturday, June 1, with the third season debuting on the service Saturday, June 8.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/snowpie...er-1235906431/

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