Woke ‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ Canceled After One Season, Will Be Removed from Paramount+

Breitbart ^ | June 23, 2023 | DAVID NG

[lowbridge]

The Paramount+ series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies has been canceled after just one season, making it the latest woke TV show to fall flat with audiences.

To add insult to injury, Paramount+ will remove the series from its platform, effectively erasing any trace of its existence. The cost-saving decision — the studio will presumably reap tax benefits while also saving on residuals and administrative expenses — is an indication of just how few people were streaming the show.

Pink Ladies creator Annabel Oakes posted a desperate message to her Instagram Stories Friday, blasting the studio’s decision.

“In a particularly brutal move, it is also being removed from @paramountplus next week and unless it finds a new home you will no longer be able to watch it anywhere,” she wrote. “The cast, my creative partners, and I are all devastated at the complete erasure of our show.”

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies was intended as prequel to the popular 1978 movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, which itself was set during the late 1950s. But the show’s creative team imposed a woke anachronistic interpretation on Rydell High School, creating lesbian kissing scenes and focusing on the racial identity politics of ethnic minority characters.

[Republican Wildcat]

Load of baloney.

Go peddle the leftist drivel somewhere else. Your argument has been discredited.

[Republican Wildcat]

Just copying and pasting the same talking points over and over again without actually replying to the proof your comments were nonsense doesn't prove you correct.

Americans in middle America are not too keen on seeing minorities on their tv shows.

Like the Cosby Show, Family Matters, and countless others over the years, all of which were popular in middle America. Don't make nonsense up. Decades of evidence to prove you wrong.

[MikelTackNailer]

Alas, I do not have the gift of brevity!

Since they took my larynx my brain edits thoughts down to the point far better (silver lining for sure). "Cat got your tongue?" Yes it did. If you see the bastard tell him I want it back. Unchewed. LOL

There's about two dozen members whose posts are always worth reading. I regret to report Free Republic now takes half the time to scan compared to twenty years ago. I blame the K-PhD system doing more indoctrinating than educating. Please keep up the good work.

To all: The Leftists behind D.E.I., displacing competency for a sliding scale of perceived victimhood and holding an eco/pc Sword of Damocles over corporations' heads are fast coming to collision with Americans' better instincts, common sense and remaining positive values. We ARE mad as hell and we DON'T have to take it anymore. Amen.

[napscoordinator]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4027741/posts

Ok I’ll play. You can’t win. Lol

[rlmorel]

That was a well-humored, self-deprecating response that really resonated with me...I loved the way you closed your post with that last paragraph:

"...The Leftists behind D.E.I., displacing competency for a sliding scale of perceived victimhood and holding an eco/pc Sword of Damocles over corporations' heads are fast coming to collision with Americans' better instincts, common sense and remaining positive values. We ARE mad as hell and we DON'T have to take it anymore. Amen..."

Amen, Indeed!

[Republican Wildcat]

I already did “win”. Wasn’t exactly difficult.

Proof was posted. Difficult to believe you didn’t already know what you said was false when you said it.

[Republican Wildcat]

I mean, should we add in shows like Mannix, Matlock, A-Team, Walker Texas Ranger, Touched by an Angel, etc. to the mix as well? You want to argue those shows weren’t and aren’t popular in middle America like Family Matters, the Cosby Show, etc.?

You have to know what you said was false.

[napscoordinator]

Things have changed in 30 plus years. Weird you have to go way back in the past.