{"id":34660,"date":"2022-08-03T22:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T22:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/little-ellen-scrapped-at-hbo-max-ahead-of-season-3-premiere-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T22:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T22:23:44","slug":"little-ellen-scrapped-at-hbo-max-ahead-of-season-3-premiere-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/little-ellen-scrapped-at-hbo-max-ahead-of-season-3-premiere-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Little Ellen’ Scrapped At HBO Max Ahead Of Season 3 Premiere \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Ellen won’t be growing up on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

Deadline understands the streamer has canceled animated series Little Ellen<\/em> ahead of its third season premiere.<\/p>\n

The third season of the show, which is centered around a seven year old Ellen DeGeneres, was completed and had previously been dated to air in June but its premiere was pushed back.<\/p>\n

It is the latest example of Warner Bros. Discovery canceling a show or movie that has already been produced. Deadline revealed that reality series The Big D<\/em> had been axed by two weeks ahead of its premiere, ostensibly for tax reasons, allowing the company to write down the costs of the project.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, this went to another level after the company scrapped high-profile DC movie Batgirl<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Essentially, WBD is able to write off the costs of certain productions as part of a \u201cpurchase accounting\u201d maneuver because of the merger and this opportunity expires in mid-August, as described by my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro in his reporting around the Leslie Grace-fronted movie.<\/p>\n

The move brings with it question marks around HBO Max’s animated strategy. Deadline understands that a number of other projects may be affected. It follows a move out of live-action kids and family programming for the streamer, on the back of the cancelation of Gordita Chronicles. <\/em><\/p>\n

Little Ellen<\/em> was ordered in 2019 as part of a trio of Ellen DeGeneres-related projects for HBO Max including Ellen’s Home<\/em> Design Challenge <\/em>and First Dates Hotel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Its first season of ten episodes launched in September 2021 and its second season launched in March 2022.<\/p>\n

Produced by Ellen Digital Ventures and Warner Bros. Animation, it was one of the latter’s first preschool series in some time. The show follows a \u201chilarious\u201d and \u201cimaginative\u201d seven-year-old Ellen, who finds fun and adventure in New Orleans with her wise and eccentric Gramsy, musical best friend Freckle, fashion-forward cousin Becky and clever cat Charlie.<\/p>\n

It features the voices of Laurel Emory, Johanna Colon, JeCobi Swain and June Squibb.<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. Discovery was not commenting on the news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n