Cancelled by Starz and scrubbed from their streaming service, Shining Vale has resurfaced on Max a 12 months later
The horror comedy collection Shining Vale premiered on Starz again in March of 2022, then the second season reached the airwaves in October of 2023. Sadly, it was cancelled quickly after, as it “did not find a large enough audience to continue.” However Starz went additional than simply cancelling this present, additionally they it from their archives, eradicating from the Starz streaming service on the finish of 2023. A 12 months later, Shining Vale has now resurfaced and is obtainable to look at on the Max streaming service!
Created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, the primary season of Shining Vale adopted a dysfunctional household that strikes from town to a small city right into a home during which horrible atrocities have taken place. However nobody appears to note apart from Patricia “Pat” Phelps, who’s satisfied she’s both depressed or possessed – seems, the signs are precisely the identical. Pat is a former “wild child” who rose to fame by writing a raunchy, drug-and-alcohol-soaked ladies’s empowerment novel (a.okay.a. woman porn). Quick ahead 17 years later, Pat is clear and sober however completely unfulfilled. She nonetheless hasn’t written her second novel, she will’t bear in mind the final time she had intercourse along with her husband, and her teenage youngsters are at that stage the place they need you lifeless. She was a devoted spouse till her one slip-up: she had a torrid affair with the recent, younger handyman who came visiting to repair the sink whereas Terry was at work. In a last-ditch effort to save lots of their marriage, she and Terry money in all their financial savings and transfer the household from the “crazy” of town to a big, outdated home within the suburbs that has a storied previous of its personal. Everybody has their demons, however for Pat Phelps, they could be actual.
Shining Vale stars Courteney Cox as Patricia “Pat” Phelps, Greg Kinnear as Pat’s husband Terry, Merrin Dungey as Pat’s pal and e-book editor Kam; Gus Birney and Dylan Gage as Pat and Terry’s teenage youngsters Gaynor and Jake; Mira Sorvino as Rosemary, “who is either Pat’s alter ego, a split personality, her id, her muse, or a demon trying to possess her”; Sherilyn Fenn as realtor Robyn Courtroom; and Judith Mild as Joan, “Pat’s Lithium-infused mother, who has long battled mental illness, and her daughter… (who she blames for her mental illness). Joan is vain and hyper-critical, taking any opportunity to recall her prized youth, or belittle Pat. Of all the horrors that Pat faces, becoming Joan is the most frightening – and most real.”
As reported on Deadline, “the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer Max has picked up the two seasons of horror comedy, produced by sibling Warner Bros. Television which at the time of the December 2023 cancellation tried to find a new home for it. Made available January 1st, the series shot up to #3 on the platform within its first 24 hours on Max.”
Shining Vale was produced by Lionsgate and Warner Bros. Tv, in affiliation with Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Astrof’s Different Shoe Productions, and Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman. Astrof, Horgan, Mountford, Kaplan, and Dana Honor have been all government producers, whereas Cox was a producer. The pilot episode was directed and government produced by Dearbhla Walsh.
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