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‘Good Girls Revolt’ stars and fans rally on Twitter to save the show

They're revolting alright.

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Posted on Dec 6, 2016   Updated on May 25, 2021, 10:58 am CDT

Hell hath no fury like a television cast scorned. 

The actors behind the Sony Pictures Television series Good Girls Revolt are using Twitter to mobilize fans after Amazon Studios canceled the show on Dec. 2. The cancellation came just one day after the show’s season two pitch to Amazon, and more than one month after the show’s series premiere on Oct. 28. 

Good Girls Revolt is a fictionalized account based on the 1970 lawsuit filed by 46 women against Newsweek in an effort to end the magazine policy of only allowing men to be reporters. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represented the women in the suit, is depicted in the series, as is writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron.

Series creator and executive producer Dana Calvo told BuzzFeed she was “stunned” by Amazon’s decision. 

“Based on data provided to us from Sony, Symphony Advanced Media reported our show was a hit, and we have loyal viewers,” Calvo said. “Eighty percent of people who watched the first few minutes of the pilot stayed until the last minutes of the finale. We had twice Transparent‘s audience…”

In the days following the cancellation, Calvo also told Forbes that, though Amazon doesn’t release its viewership data for original content, it’s downplaying Symphony’s data as a way to “gaslight” about the real figure. She also said Amazon Studios head Roy Price seemed unenthusiastic about the series.

“He’s never been hugely supportive of the show from the start,” Calvo said. “He wasn’t very involved in it. We didn’t hear much from him—what we had heard was just that he wasn’t into it.”

Many of the main actors, including Anna Camp and Joy Bryant, expressed their disbelief for the show’s cancellation on Twitter and Instagram.

With Sony in the process of getting the rights back from Amazon to shop the series elsewhere, Good Girls Revolt stars and showrunner Darlene Hunt are using the hashtag #SaveGoodGirlsRevolt to rally fans in support of finding the show a new home.

https://twitter.com/DarleneTweets/status/805188942983086080

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNnwrZKh52j/

Using the hashtag, fans of the show shared their own reasons for wanting to save the series.

https://twitter.com/AllCatsAreGirls/status/805303110885380097

https://twitter.com/CallaghanBelle/status/805594044998922240

Amazon and Sony Pictures did not immediately return requests for comment.

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*First Published: Dec 6, 2016, 9:38 am CST

Samantha Grasso

Samantha Grasso is a former IRL staff writer for the Daily Dot with a reporting emphasis on immigration. Her work has appeared on AJ+, Vox, Splinter, Los Angeles Magazine, and Austin Monthly.

Samantha Grasso