Melania Trump was snubbed by Vogue. Now, her life story won’t be retold in a glossy, high budget cable TV production either.
Showtime announced this week that will not be picking up a second season of star-studded, hour-long drama series The First Lady.
Season 1 of the anthology set in the East Wing of the White House starred Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, and Viola Davis as Michelle Obama. It chronicled each of the three women’s journeys before and after arriving in Washington, D.C.
“Showtime can confirm that the anthology series The First Lady will not be moving forward with another season,” a spokesperson for the network told Deadline in a statement, before thanking showrunner Cathy Schulman and director Susanne Bier for their “dedicated work in telling the unique stories of three remarkable leaders.”
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Before the show premiered, Schulman and Bier revealed that they were already exploring potential future installments that might feature Jackie O, Hillary Clinton, and Melania Trump.
“Look, I do think that the series could do with a fun season–so let’s talk about that,” Bier said when asked about the possibility of featuring Melania in an upcoming season at the Television Critics Association in February.
But with the Showtime officially pulling the plug, it doesn’t look like Mrs. Trump will be getting the fancy TV treatment after all. Although, truthfully, we doubt she cares, considering how intensely private she is and how personally she takes everything.
And while we’re mildly disappointed the series won’t be getting a Season 2, we have to say that we never thought a high gloss cable TV show about Melania Trump would be particularly interesting.
She spent the bulk of her time as FLOTUS hiding from the public, reportedly working on her scrapbooks and bitching about how much she hated Christmas–not exactly a recipe for great television.
Frankly, she’s more Lifetime Original Movie material.
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Flamingo Falls
Presume she’ll be ho(le) 3 at Bedminster when she expires, so there’s that.
barryaksarben
Well, she has seen more fat old men than most golf courses. She will more likely be the giant hole they let little kids use. She is complicit in all his crimes
ho
About MElania, “I really don’t care, go you?”
ho
“I really don’t care, do you?”
LumpyPillows
“I really don’t care, do you?” Who does?
Harley
Starting out as an underage Slovenian prostitute wouldn’t be very interesting and I’m sure Donald would sue the shit out of showtime regardless.
bachy
The only way I’d watch it is if they hired Jennifer Coolidge to portray Melanoma.
one more thing
Leave the woman alone! Vultures, all!
Den
Leave her alone? Why?
She relinquished her right to privacy when she knowingly became a very public trophy wife. And she quickly demonstrated she was wiling to lie and grift as much as her husband. The only exemplary thing she might have done was to be a good mother to Baron, and we don’t yet know whether she was or not. He might prove to be a model citizen, the next generation of grifter, or a budding serial killer.
Vince
I’m sure you feel the same way about Hillary or Michele? Ha. Hypocrite.
CNY1983
oh heres ‘one more thing’ for you: they burned a statue of her in her own country.
the end.
Tendentious D
Forget it.
Nothing like a bitchy gay for dishing insults.
Everyone knows she was the classiest, best dressed, most beautiful and most accomplished First Lady ever.
She speaks 6 or seven more languages than pretty much all of us here and being married to the enigmatic lightning rod that is The Donald is a rare accomplishment in and of itself.
Trump has tons of gay friends and employees…not that that ought to matter but in this day and age of bogus narratives and sjw divisiveness, you ain’t gettin’ away with it on my watch.
Envy is so declassé.
They’ll never change. ?
ffxv
Melania in this series! omg. Soooo watchable.
Opening scene of season 2:
Picture a dimly lit strip club, at 2:30 pm on a Tuesday. Glitter purple coverings with strips of Gray and brown paint line the walls. A buffet of pigs in a blanket, swedish meatballs and half eaten fruit with flies on it near the door.
A woman wearing red loungerie walks on stage and begins to gyrate around a metal pole.
PREZ himself 45/future47: OMG who is that! Shes beautiful! I need to cheat on my 2nd wife with her.
Don Jr: Thats Lizzy Latex. Shes the hottest B team girl here.
PREZ: Not her! The one off to the side finger painting on the walls.
Don Jr: Oh her? Thats Melania Knauss. The interior decorator they hired. She swore up and down she knew what she was doing. I hear shes from Slovenia.
PREZ: I must have her…to serve me pigs in a blanket.
I entertain myself…