Paper Girls Canceled After One Season at Prime Video

By Jessica Lerner 

Paper Girls on Prime Video has been canceled after one season.

The decision comes several months after the show debuted in July.

Deadline reports Paper Girls, a co-production between Amazon Studios and Legendary Television, will be shopped around to other streamers and markets by Legendary.

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Paper Girls, based on Brian K. Vaughan‘s comics, follows four paper girls on their delivery route in 1988 when they become caught in the crossfire between warring time travelers. These girls are then sent to the future and must find a means to return to the past, a voyage that will bring them face-to-face with their grown-up counterparts.

While they come to terms with the truth that their futures are different from what their 12-year-old selves expected, they are pursued by the Old Watch, a militant group of time-travelers who have outlawed time travel to maintain power. The girls will have to overcome their differences and learn to trust each other and themselves to live.

“As fans of the comic already know, this story seamlessly interweaves deeply personal character drama with the kind of high adventure and action that is truly rare on the small screen,” Christopher C. Rogers, the show’s executive producer and showrunner, said in a statement in June. “That said, this show is for everyone (even those who’ve never picked up a comic book!) who has ever wondered what it would be like to meet themselves at a different stage of life — to compare what you know now with what you thought you knew then… It’s been a genuine thrill to get to play in Brian and Cliff’s world, and I’m humbled to have worked alongside this incredibly special group of artists and collaborators to bring it to life.”

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