

According to Variety, Amazon has canceled comedy series Clean Slate after one season. The series aired on the streamer in February and received positive reviews from critics upon its release, but was canceled months after.
The logline for the series is as follows: “follows Harry Slate, an old-school and outspoken Alabama car wash owner, who has a lot of soul searching to do when the estranged child he thought was a son returns home to Mobile as a proud, trans woman, Desiree.”
The series cast included Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black, The Blacklist) as Desiree, George Wallace (The Ladykillers, Batman Forever) as Harry, Jay Wilkison (Rabbit Hole, Nurse Jackie) as Mack, D.K. Uzoukwu (The Disinvited, Who’s There) as Louis, Telma Hopkins (Family Matters, The Love Guru) as Ella, Philip Garcia (Will Trent, Criminal Minds) as Miguel, and Norah Murphy (The Exorcist: Believer, A Friend of the Family) as Opal. Wallace and Cox co-created the series with Dan Ewen (Playing with Fire, Dear Santa); all three served as executive producers along with the late Norman Lear (All in the Family, Good Times), Brent Miller (Chasing Hope, Transformers: Energon), and Simran Baidwan (Ordinary Joe, The Good Doctor).
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series premiered on February 6 and by “the end of March” it was canceled, the trio wrote. Cox, Wallace and Ewen called the series a “labor of love,” and a “seven-year effort” that “was gone in a puff of server exhaust.”
As per Variety, Clean Slate was originally in development at Peacock in 2020 before moving over to Amazon’s IMBD TV then Freeve in 2021. Before Amazon shut down Freevee the series moved over to Prime Video before its official premiere date. The series held an 89% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The series was Lear’s final completed project before passing in 2023.
Clean Slate is still available to stream on Prime Video.
