The Girls On The Bus Thread: Melissa Benoist Talks What Was Planned For Season 2 & 3 To Collider

Some cast photos.

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The Girls on The Bus 3-Season Plan Get Optimistic Update From Co-Creator After Cliffhanger Finale


Spoilers in article for finale.

https://screenrant.com/the-girls-on-the-bus-future-plan-update/

TVLine spoiler recap and showrunner interview which teases potential Season 2 including a possible Arrowverse crossover. between Melissa and Tala Ashe (Zari from DC Legends Of Tomorrow)

The Girls on the Bus Boss Reveals Season 2 Plans, Including Potential for an Arrowverse ‘Crossover’


https://tvline.com/lists/the-girls-on-the-bus-season-1-finale-recap-renewed-cancelled/

‘The Girls on the Bus’: Melissa Benoist, Carla Gugino & More Stars Reveal Season 2 Hopes


https://www.tvinsider.com/1134322/girls-on-the-bus-season-2-renewed-canceled-questions-answered/

Bad news, the show has been canceled.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/the-girls-on-the-bus-canceled-max-1235940431/

‘The Girls On The Bus’ Canceled By Max After One Season

By Nellie Andreeva



Max has opted not to proceed with a second season of drama The Girls On The Bus. The decision comes two weeks after the Season 1 finale of the series, starring and produced by Melissa Benoist, was released.

“While Max will not be moving forward with a second season of The Girls on the Bus, we are grateful to have partnered with immensely talented Amy Chozick, Julie Plec, Rina Mimoun, as well as the teams at Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television,” the streamer said in a statement. “We are so proud of this powerful story of found family and the celebration of journalism, in all its forms. We thank them and our unrivaled cast for all their incredible work and collaboration.”

The cancellation news is not entirely surprising. The adaptation of Chozick’s best-selling book Chasing Hillary had a relatively quiet run and didn’t break into Nielsen’s Top 10 weekly streaming rankings through it appeared multiple times on Max’s in-app Top 10 list.

Created by Plec and Chozick, The Girls On The Bus‘ first season centers on Sadie McCarthy (Benoist), a journalist who romanticizes a bygone era of campaign reporting and scraps her whole life for a shot at covering a presidential candidate for a paper of record. Sadie joins the bus and eventually bonds with three female competitors, Grace (Carla Gugino), Lola (Natasha Behnam), and Kimberlyn (Christina Elmore).

Despite the title, future installments were not expected to be confined to a campaign bus. Season 1, which ended with a cliffhanger, followed the primaries. Season 2 would’ve moved to the general election with the reporters getting off the bus and onto a plane, showrunner Rina Mimoun confirmed to TVLine.

The cast of the series also included Brandon Scott, Griffin Dunne, Mark Consuelos, and Scott Foley.

Chozick, Plec and Rina Mimoun executive produced with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, and Marcos Siega; Jesse Peretz executive produced and directed the pilot of the series, Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

The Girls On the Bus landed at Max after originally getting a series order at Netflix and then moving to the CW for development.

https://tvline.com/news/the-girls-on-the-bus-cancelled-season-2-max-1235235751/

The Girls on the Bus Cancelled at Max — Get Scoop on What Would Have Happened in Season 2

BY VLADA GELMAN
MAY 24, 2024

The Girls on the Bus‘ journey has come to the end of the road: Max has cancelled the Melissa Benoist-fronted comedic drama after just one season, TVLine has learned.

“While Max will not be moving forward with a second season of The Girls on the Bus, we are grateful to have partnered with immensely talented Amy Chozick, Julie Plec, Rina Mimoun, as well as the teams at Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television,” the streamer said in a statement. “We are so proud of this powerful story of found family and the celebration of journalism, in all its forms. We thank them and our unrivaled cast for all their incredible work and collaboration.”

The series was inspired by a chapter in Amy Chozick’s 2018 novel Chasing Hillary, which was based on the author’s time covering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as a political reporter. Chozick and Julie Plec served as executive producers alongside showrunner Rina Mimoun, and Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter (for Berlanti Productions).

Supergirl vet Benoist played Sadie McCarthy, “a journalist who romanticizes the original ‘Boys on the Bus’ and who scrapped her whole life for her own shot at covering a presidential campaign for the paper of record. Sadie hits the trail and eventually bonds with three female competitors,” per the official logline. “Despite their differences, these women become a found family with a front-row seat to the greatest soap opera in town: the battle for the White House.”

Joining Benoist on the campaign trail were Carla Gugino (The Fall of the House of Usher) as veteran journalist Grace; Natasha Behnam (Mayans M.C.) as social media influencer/activist Lola; and Christina Elmore (Insecure) as conservative network reporter Kimberlyn. The series-regular cast also included Brandon Scott (13 Reasons Why, Dead to Me) as Sadie’s love interest/political staffer Malcolm.

In the season finale, which dropped on May 9, Sadie and her reporter pals discovered damning information about presidential hopeful Hayden Wells Garrett, aka Hot White Guy (played by Scott Foley), but that didn’t stop him from officially being named the Democratic candidate.

Elsewhere in the episode, Malcolm made a big, romantic speech to Sadie; Lola was offered a job at the Wall Street Journal after breaking a major donor scandal; Grace realized her daughter had a knack for investigative reporting; and Kimmy got fired from Liberty News Direct after she called out her employer on air, leading her to start her own media company.

In a post mortem Q&A, Mimoun revealed that Season 2 would have followed the general election, during which the girls get off the bus and onto a plane.

“We finally meet the incumbent Republican, so that would be a piece of the story,” Mimoun shared. “The girls are, essentially, trying to dig up the dirt on Hot White Guy and find out all of his deep, dark secrets.”

“One of the things that I was very excited about was we would be adding Grace’s daughter to the bus,” Mimoun continued. “We’d finally have [Malcolm] and Sadie trying to maintain some sort of a relationship now that he’s out of the business and it’s no longer a conflict of interest.”

Plus, Season 2 would have found Kimberlyn potentially starting a family while also trying to launch her own company. As for Lola, she would be “not hating every part of this corporate world that she has been attacking in Season 1 and trying to wrestle with that in her own way,” Mimoun said. (Get even more Season 2 scoop.)

The Girls on the Bus fans, hit the comments with your reactions!

The Girls On The Bus Season 2 Cancelled At Max After Cliffhanger Finale

https://screenrant.com/the-girls-on-the-bus-season-2-cancelled-renewed-update/

I would’ve watched more of The Girls on The Bus. At least it didn’t end on a cliffhanger. While the fans seem to have liked it the critics were mixed. The critics liked the performances and the relationships between the characters but had problems with the writing, they didn’t like how journalism was portrayed which IMO is a challenge. I also think some of the marketing could have been better, critics shouldn’t have been expecting a depiction of hard core journalism. In this current environment if a show isn’t a hit with critics and fans it doesn’t get renewed.

It can also be a challenge translating a book to film. According to this article Julie Plec told Amy Chozick that Sadie has to have sex with someone.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/girls-on-the-bus-creator-guest-column-1235910083/

Melissa interview about the cancelation of the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ndEYPTxHHw

A Show Cancellation Can't Dim the Pride Melissa Benoist Has in Her Work


https://collider.com/melissa-benoist-girls-on-the-bus/

Melissa Benoist Reveals What Seasons 2 and 3 of 'The Girls on the Bus' Would've Been About

https://collider.com/the-girls-on-the-bus-cancelled-melissa-benoist-reaction/