UPDATED on March 2: The series adaptation of the novel “Three Women” is officially moving to Starz. The series was previously set up at Showtime but that network scrapped the show despite having shot the entire first season.
“We are proud to welcome ‘Three Women’ to the Starz family,” said Alison Hoffman, president of domestic networks at Starz. “The show is anchored by such remarkable talent both in front of and behind the camera and aligns perfectly with our commitment to telling stories by, for and about women.”
Based on Lisa Taddeo’s novel of the same name, Shailene Woodley stars in the series along with DeWanda Wise, Betty Gilpin, Gabrielle Creevy, Blair Underwood, and John Patrick Amedori.
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The official logline for the show states it is about “three women on a crash course to radically overturn their lives. Lina (Gilpin), a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life. Sloane (Wise), a glamorous entrepreneur in the Northeast, has a committed open marriage with Richard (Underwood), until two sexy new strangers threaten their aspirational love story. Maggie (Creevy), a student in North Dakota, weathers an intense storm after accusing her married English teacher of an inappropriate relationship. Gia (Woodley), a writer grieving the loss of her family, persuades each of these three spectacular ‘ordinary’ women to tell her their stories, and her relationships with them change the course of her life forever.”
Taddeo adapted her book for the screen and serves as executive producer along with Laura Eason, Kathy Ciric, and Emmy Rossum. Eason serves as showrunner. Showtime produced the series.
“With its unwavering commitment to supporting and amplifying female-driven stories, we have found the perfect home for ‘Three Women’ at Starz,” said Eason. “Our whole team — writers, directors, cast, and crew — is deeply proud of what we’ve made and I am incredibly grateful to Starz for believing in our vision and cannot wait to share this show with the world.”
Taddeo added, “We set out to make a bluntly beautiful show about the way that women want and suffer and thrill, the way they make love and take love. That Starz will be the home for ‘Three Women’ is not merely right and perfect, but also a force of auspicious change. I cannot wait for the world to see these raw and real stories on a network committed to the complexity and firepower of the female experience.”
“Three Women” was originally commissioned at Showtime in 2019. It was scrapped at the network after parent company Paramount announced that the Showtime brand would be moving under the purview of Paramount+. At the same time the series was dropped, Showtime also canceled its original series “Let the Right One In” and “American Gigolo” after just one season each.
This is now the second series in recent months that Starz has picked up after it was dropped at another network or streaming service. Starz is also set to air the second season of the period comedy “Minx” after HBO Max decided not to air the new season despite production being mostly completed.
