Why Winning Time won't get a season 3 on HBO
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT HBO has canceled its sports drama Winning Time after just two seasons and the network had a couple of different reasons for bringing the series to an abrupt end. Bearing the full title Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, the series chronicles the Showtime era of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, starting in 1979 and carrying through the 1980s. The ensemble cast includes such famous faces as John C.
The recent cancelation of other shows like A League of Their Own and How I Met Your Father were blamed on the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and their impact on the TV industry, but HBO had different reasoning for the cancelation of Winning Time. Even before the network officially confirmed that it had canceled the show, the chances of Winning Time getting a third season seemed pretty slim.
While HBO hasn’t used the strikes as an excuse to cancel Winning Time, Pearlman did note that the strikes were a factor, because they were preventing the show’s star-studded cast from promoting season 2. The strikes are necessary to secure fair wages and protections for low-level writers and actors who live paycheck to paycheck, but they’re taking a toll on the year’s film and TV releases, because the marketing potential is seriously limited.
Winning Time Was Hurt By Controversies With Former Lakers Players & Staff HBO has been careful to market Winning Time as a dramatization that embellishes and tweaks some of the facts for dramatic effect. But that hasn’t prevented the series from garnering plenty of controversy for its often inaccurate portrayal of real-life events.
The two most famous basketball players depicted in Winning Time, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, have both condemned the series for its inaccuracies. Johnson said that it was pointless to attempt to tell the Lakers’ story without any involvement from the Lakers themselves. He was baffled by HBO’s decision not to seek any participation from Johnson or his teammates, and refuses to watch the show.
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