Showtime-Abandoned 'Three Women' Sets Starz Premiere Date

In the Chris McCarthy administration at Showtime, its original programming has severely thinned out, whether it was running series getting canceled or shows being made or developed being dropped, in a riddance kind of way. As Showtime announced its merger with Paramount+ in late January 2023, the most immediate casualties were the cancellations of Let the Right One In and American Gigolo, but also, they announced they weren’t moving forward with a new series called Three Women, starring starring Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise and Gabrielle Creevy, which had already been completed. A week later, Starz entered negotiations to pick it up, which would prove successful a month later. Now, what’s being branded a 10-episode limited series has set a premiere date at its new home.

Three Women has set a September 13 premiere on Starz, with a midnight release on the app and a 10 PM time slot on the linear channel. Based on Lisa Taddeo’s New York Times bestseller of the same name, the series follows three women ready to change their lives. Gilpin plays suburban Indiana housewife Lina who goes after her change by embarking on an affair to end a decade-long passionless marriage. She is described as “plagued with a body of pain and exhaustion from her stagnant marriage. A teenager at heart, yearning for the thrill and adrenaline of young love… to be loved and desired”.

Wise plays the glamorous, beautiful entrepreneur Sloane, who seemingly has it all in a committed open marriage with Richard, played by Blair Underwood, including a daughter, until two sexy new strangers threaten their love story. Creevy plays Maggie, a North Dakota student who has just formally accused her married English teacher of an inappropriate relationship and must withstand the blowback while also carrying the trauma. Meanwhile, Woodley’s Gia is a writer going after their stories while she grieves zher family, urging each of these three spectacular “ordinary” women to tell her their stories, and the relationships she develops with them causes her life to be changed as well.

Taddeo serves as creator of the Three Women adaptation, which also stars Jason Ralph as Aaron Knodel, and John Patrick Amedori. She also executive produces with Kathy Ciric and Emmy Rossum, and the showrunner is Laura Eason. It is unclear at what stage the series gained the “limited” label, or whether the extensive journey to airing meant contracts lapsed in the interim. The series premiered in February on Stan in Australia.

Source: Deadline