{"id":55794,"date":"2017-12-30T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55794"},"modified":"2017-12-30T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:05:10","slug":"white-famous-is-done-at-showtime-after-one-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/white-famous-is-done-at-showtime-after-one-season.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;White Famous&#8217; Is Done at Showtime After One Season (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8216;White Famous&#8217; Is Done at Showtime After One Season (Exclusive)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Jamie Foxx-produced Jay Pharoah vehicle premiered in September and netted around 1.8 million weekly viewers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">White Famous wasn&#8217;t able to raise its profile quite enough. Showtime has canceled the comedy after just one season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the network opted not to move forward with the Jamie Foxx-produced Jay Pharoah vehicle on the eve of the New Year, a not atypical time to drop bad news. A Showtime rep was not immediately available for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The series&#8217; cancellation does not come as a huge surprise, considering fellow freshman half-hour SMILF was quickly renewed a month ago amid radio silence on its own future prospects. Produced by Showtime alongside Lionsgate Television and Foxx&#8217;s Foxxhole Productions, White Famous was greeted with mixed reviews and courted a weekly audience of 1.8 million viewers once all platforms were tallied. (By Showtime standards, that&#8217;s fairly middling.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">What White Famous did give Showtime was a not-so-terribly common half-hour comedy for the network. The pay cable outfit is more known for flagship hour-longs such as Homeland and Shameless. The only new half-hour on the immediate horizon is Jim Carrey&#8217;s buzzy TV move, Kidding, in which he&#8217;ll star alongside Catherine Keener.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In addition to Pharoah and guest appearances by Foxx, White Famous counted Utkarsh Ambudkar, Cleopatra Coleman, Meagan Good, Stephen Tobolowsky and Michael Rapaport among its players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">White Famous&#8217; first season will live on at the outlet&#8217;s various streaming platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source-\u00a0https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/white-famous-is-done-at-showtime-one-season-1070842<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/white-famous-is-done-at-showtime-after-one-season.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;White Famous&#8217; Is Done at Showtime After One Season (Exclusive) The Jamie Foxx-produced Jay Pharoah vehicle premiered in September and netted around 1.8 million weekly viewers. White Famous wasn&#8217;t able to raise its profile quite enough. Showtime has canceled the comedy after just one season. 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