Netflix and ’13 Reasons Why’ Can Learn From Paramount Network Scrapping the ‘Heathers’ Reboot

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “13 Reasons Why” Season 2 and general plot points from the unaired “Heathers” series.]On Friday, Paramount Network had told IndieWire that the “Heathers” series reboot has been dropped completely from the channel before it even had the chance to air.

The news was first reported by THR.The decision comes in the wake of the mass shooting of students at a Santa Fe, Texas high school on May 18.

The show had already had a fraught history with school shootings; following the one in Parkland in late February, the network announced it would delay the reboot’s scheduled March debut.

Although a new July premiere date was supposedly announced on the show’s Instagram account, no evidence of such a post can be found.

Currently, there are no plans for the show to debut at all, at least not on a Viacom-owned network.The Problem With “Heathers”“Heathers” was loosely based

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