Shining Vale has found a new streaming home. The Starz horror-comedy show, which was co-created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, stars Courteney Cox (Friends, Scream) as an author whose family moves to a new home where she is haunted by supernatural entities. The Shining Vale cast also includes Greg Kinnear, Gus Birney, Merrin Dungey, Dylan Gage, and Mira Sorvino. Less than three weeks after its season 2 finale, the show was cancelled, after which point it was removed from the Starz streaming service in its entirety.
Now, Shining Vale has appeared in the Max library. This means that it has officially found a new home after spending more than a year not being available to stream on any platform, as it was removed from Starz by the end of December 2023. The show had been available for rental and purchase on various video on demand platforms in the meantime. This new home likely came about because the show is a Warner Bros. Television Studios co-production, and both WBTV and Max are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
What This Means For Shining Vale
Max Is Not The Most Stable Streaming Home
This new home on Max does not mean that Shining Vale season 3 is in the cards, and in fact, it does not even mean that the show will be permanently available to stream. Max made headlines in 2022 when dozens of titles were removed from the platform as part of a new content strategy designed to eliminate lower-performing projects even if they had no other home. This roster of deleted titles included Generation, Summer Camp Island, Vinyl, Mrs. Fletcher, and At Home with Amy Sedaris.
Other streaming services removed their own underperforming content around this same time, including Disney+ with their Willow sequel series and Paramount+ with Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies.
The streaming service has been involved in even more controversial programming moves as well. After the corporate merger that led to Warner Bros. Discovery, the Batgirl movie, which was in post-production and intended for a Max exclusive release, was cancelled as a tax write-off. The animated sequel Scoob! Holiday Haunt, which was intended for a Max release as well, was also shelved, as was the Warner Bros. live-action and animation hybrid comedy Coyote vs. Acme.
Our Take On Shining Vale’s New Streaming Home
It Has A Chance To Thrive
Because Max has cancelled or removed many of its own proprietary movies and television shows, Shining Vale will likely have to prove itself in order if it hopes to earn longevity on the platform. However, its new home does expose it to a new audience, and the fact that it exists alongside other HBO and Max horror-comedy originals including Los Espookys and Velma could help it thrive if it connects with the same audiences, as could its solid Rotten Tomatoes scores of 71% from critics and 84% from users.
Source: Max
Created by Sharon Horgan and Jeff Astrof, Shining Vale is a Horror and Comedy television series that began in 2022 and currently has one season. Starring Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, the series follows a challenged family that moves into a new home in which strange paranormal events begin to plague the family matriarch.
- Release Date
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March 6, 2022
- Finale Year
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November 30, 2022
- Writers
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Sharon Horgan
- Streaming Service(s)
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Hulu
, Dis - Directors
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Sharon Horgan
- Showrunner
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Jeff Astrof
, Sharon Horgan