‘Shining Vale’ Canceled By Starz After Two Seasons

Rosy Cordero
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Starz has canceled Shining Vale after two seasons, Deadline has confirmed. Sources close to production revealed that the Courteney Cox- and Greg Kinnear-led series “did not find a large enough audience” to continue.

Both seasons also are set to be removed from the streamer’s library.

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Sources said producer Warner. Bros. TV tried to sell the series elsewhere but did not succeed.

Season 1 of the series from creators Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan followed Pat (Cox) and Terry Phelps (Kinnear), a married couple who cash in their life savings and move from a cramped Brooklyn apartment to an old Victorian mansion in Connecticut, as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage after Pat’s torrid affair with the handyman. Their kids Gaynor and Jake are pissed, and as disconnected as teenagers can get. Pat is losing her grip on them, and Terry doesn’t see that Pat might be losing a grip on herself as well.

Doors slam, the piano plays by itself and when an old-fashioned-looking woman appears to hover outside the family window, Pat believes that she is going crazy — or worse. Every family has its demons, but for the Phelps, theirs may be real.

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Season 2 picked up after the chaotic Season 1 finale when Pat lands herself in a psychiatric hospital for trying to murder her family with an ax. While there, she went through extensive electroshock therapy, and when she returns home, she meets a mysterious woman who introduces her to a host of ancient remedies used to “cure” women of depression, including the apocryphal Smile Masks. Meanwhile, the Phelpses continued to be haunted by ghosts while Pat struggled to live with mental illness in a broken family, battling demons both internally and externally.

The series also stars Shining Vale Mira Sorvino, Gus Birney, Merrin Dungey and Dylan Gage, with features Judith Light, Allison Tolman and Sherilyn Fenn.

The series was executive produced by Astrof from Other Shoe Productions, Horgan and Clelia Mountford from Merman and Aaron Kaplan and Melanie Frankel from Kapital Entertainment. Cox also served as a producer. Shining Vale was co-created by Astrof and Horgan and produced by Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate Television in association with Other Shoe Productions, Merman and Kapital Entertainment.

Variety was first to announce the cancellation.

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