Did Oprah Winfrey drop The Underground from her network?!
It seems that Oprah Winfrey has denied the airing of the new TV series called The underground. The new show is being produced by artist John Legend and consists of the perspectives of slaves and freed slaves involved in the Underground Railroad.
However, the series was recently dropped from air when it was brought from Sinclair Broadcast Group. In addition, Hulu and BET also dropped the series!!
“I can’t afford Underground,” Winfrey told a group of eight journalists. “It cost twice as much to make as Queen Sugar. As a matter of fact, my dear friend John Legend called me personally and asked me about it, but we’d already been talking about how we could make it work… it’s like $5 million an episode, so we can’t afford it. It’s not cheap, I think because it’s a period piece.”
We really tried to make it work,” she says. “I wanted to make it work because I think it’s a good show. I wanted to be able to save that show, but it did not make good business sense for me.”
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