Kyra Sedgwick blasts ABC after the cancelation of her show Call Your Mother which lasted just one season: ‘The rollout was nuts!’
Kyra Sedgwick is not happy with the cancelation of her ABC show Call Your Mother, after just one season.
The 55-year-old star took to Twitter to announce the news and express her thoughts on why the show did not attract a larger audience.
‘Before it goes out there in the world I want my fans to be the first to know that next Wednesday will be the last episode of Call Your Mother,’ she tweeted.
Angry: Kyra Sedgwick is not happy with the cancelation of her ABC show Call Your Mother, after just one season. The 55-year-old star took to Twitter to announce the news and express her thoughts on why the show did not attract a larger audience.
‘You guys have been so wonderful to tune in every week, or every other week or every two weeks! The rollout was nuts!’ Sedgwick added with a facepalm emoji.
Call Your Mother followed Kyra’s character Jean Raines, an empty-nester, who decides to move from Waterloo, Iowa to Los Angeles so she can be close to her three adult children, played by Joey Bragg, Rachel Sennott and Austin Crute. Her children are annoyed when she starts trying to get involved in their lives.
After production on the sitcom was halted by the pandemic, ABC picked it up for a full season, skipping the pilot process.
Done deal: The series is a co-production between ABC Signature and Sony Pictures Television. Sr. VP, Head of Content for Hulu Originals Craig Erwich made the call to not renew the show for a second season
Created by Kari Lizer, the show debuted in January 2021 as a mid-season entry to the 2020-2021 season.
Though 3.4 million viewers tuned in for the premiere, the audience numbers began dropping and it is now one of ABC’s least-watched shows.
While ABC aired episodes weekly from January 13 to March 3, the network started releasing episodes every few weeks after that point. Call Your Mother last aired on May 12 after a three-week absence.
The series is a co-production between ABC Signature and Sony Pictures Television. Sr. VP, Head of Content for Hulu Originals Craig Erwich made the call to not renew the show for a second season.
Not having it: Call Your Mother followed Kyra’s character Jean Raines, an empty-nester, who decides to move from Waterloo, Iowa to Los Angeles so she can be close to her three adult children, played by Joey Bragg, Rachel Sennott and Austin Crute. Her children are annoyed when she starts trying to get involved in their lives
Exasperated: Kyra did not believe that ABC gave Call Your Mother a shot. She said on Twitter, ‘The rollout was nuts!’ Seen on The Drew Barrymore Show in April 2021