Norman Lear’s ‘Clean Slate’ Canceled at Prime Video After One Season

Norman Lear’s final completed project “Clean Slate” has been canceled at Prime Video after one season, the series’ stars Laverne Cox and George Wallace and co-creator Dan Ewen revealed in a Friday guest column on Deadline.
The series premiered on the Amazon-owned streaming platform on Feb. 6. But by the end of March, the eight-episode “labor of love” was canceled.
“A seven-year effort was gone in a puff of server exhaust,” Cox, Wallace and Ewen wrote.
Representatives for Prime Video declined to comment.
“Clean Slate” follows an old school and outspoken car wash owner named Henry (Wallace), who is thrilled that his estranged child is finally returning home to Alabama after 17 years. However, Henry has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he thought was a son returns as the determined, proud, trans woman, Desiree (Cox).
The series, which was initially brought by Cox and Wallace to Lear as “Sanford and Daughter,...
The series premiered on the Amazon-owned streaming platform on Feb. 6. But by the end of March, the eight-episode “labor of love” was canceled.
“A seven-year effort was gone in a puff of server exhaust,” Cox, Wallace and Ewen wrote.
Representatives for Prime Video declined to comment.
“Clean Slate” follows an old school and outspoken car wash owner named Henry (Wallace), who is thrilled that his estranged child is finally returning home to Alabama after 17 years. However, Henry has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he thought was a son returns as the determined, proud, trans woman, Desiree (Cox).
The series, which was initially brought by Cox and Wallace to Lear as “Sanford and Daughter,...
- 4/18/2025
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
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