Throughout a latest interview, star Mary-Louise Parker confirmed the Weeds reboot’s cancellation. Parker starred as Nancy Botwin on all eight seasons of the hit Showtime comedy, which adopted a younger widow who begins promoting marijuana for the great of her household. A possible follow-up was first teased in 2019, with Parker reportedly set to reprise her longtime TV function; nevertheless, greater than half a decade later, the reboot stays on the again burner.
Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker (who followers could acknowledge for her latest look in CBS’s Elsbeth) not too long ago commented on the way forward for the Showtime sequence’ long-awaited reboot, confirming that it has, in truth, been cancelled and isn’t shifting ahead (a minimum of in its present kind). This comes after years of radio silence on the challenge from author and Parker’s government producing associate Victoria Morrow.
In an unique dialog with The Direct whereas selling MGM+’s The Institute, Parker pulled the curtain again on what the Weeds reboot would have been and its eventual cancellation. “I assumed it was a nice thought,” the previous sequence star posited, letting slip that its eventual cancellation was “very abrupt:”
“It was going to happen in Copenhagen, and I assumed it was a nice thought. And it was very abrupt. It nearly occurred so many instances.”
She stated that this most up-to-date time, the reboot bought extremely shut, calling the lengthy lead-up into eventual cancellation “a drag:”
“And the final time it was like, on Thursday, there’s going to be a blah, blah assembly for this, after which on Monday, it was cancelled. So it was type of a lengthy lead up for for that. And it was a drag, as a result of we had been excited to to get to work collectively once more, and I needed to do it.”
When requested if she may see the present coming again in some unspecified time in the future down the road, Parker remarked, “I hope” but in addition was conscious she does not “know the way for much longer [she] may be on a movie set:”
“I hope. I imply, I do not know—grandma’s attending to, I do not know, I do not know the way for much longer I may be on a movie set, however you recognize.”
Created by Orange Is the New Black showrunner Jenji Kohan, the unique Weeds sequence ran on Showtime for eight seasons from 2005 to 2012. All eight seasons informed the story of Mary-Louise Parker’s Nancy Botwin, a widow who resorts to drug dealing to maintain her household afloat after her husband’s demise. The sequence earned important acclaim, with Season 1 being Showtime’s most-watched sequence on the time. In 2006, Parker obtained the Golden Globe for Greatest Efficiency by a TV Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
Will the Weeds Reboot Ever Come Again?
Despite the fact that the Weeds reboot has been the sufferer of cancellation this time round, it doesn’t imply it’s gone for good. As its main star, Mary-Louise Parker stated, there’s nonetheless “hope” that the forged and crew can reunite in some kind.
Weeds is a sufficiently big identify that it’s actually shocking that the revival has had as troubled a highway because it has.
From 2005 to 2012, the unique sequence remained a fan favourite amongst Showtime viewers. Regardless of falling off critically because the sequence continued, it remained within the awards season dialog, incomes 14 Emmy nominations and one Emmy win (for Excellent Cinematography for a Half-Hour Sequence in 2010).
Different TV hits of the period have managed to come back again and debut semi-successful to profitable reboots lately, with the likes of How I Met Your Mom and The Large Bang Principle all residing on in some kind or one other.
Nonetheless, the TV enterprise shouldn’t be what it as soon as was. The business into which a Weeds reboot could be launched shouldn’t be wherever close to the identical one the present stated goodbye to again in 2012. With tightening funds throughout the enterprise, maybe a Weeds sequel was seen as not well worth the funding.
For now, followers are left to look at reruns of the hit sequence, with the reboot nonetheless ready within the wings.
Learn extra about a character’s departure in one other in style Showtime sequence, The Chi.
