Despite earlier in the year confirming that a fourth season was on the way, the axe has sadly swung on Netflix’s GLOW.

With the show previously renewed for a fourth year that would serve to be a final season for the series, GLOW actually managed to get about three weeks of filming done earlier this year before the production was put on hold due to the ongoing global pandemic.

Now, that pandemic has seen the decision made by Netflix to add GLOW to the ever-growing list of shows cancelled as a direct result of COVID-19.

In a statement to Deadline, GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch explained, “COVID has killed actual humans. It’s a national tragedy and should be our focus. COVID also apparently took down our show. Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW. We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. And wrestle. Now that’s gone.

There’s a lot of shitty things happening in the world that are much bigger than this right now. But it still sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 women in a frame together again. We’ll miss our cast of weirdo clowns and our heroic crew. It was the best job.”

Based on the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling show of the 1980s, GLOW has headlined by Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Marc Maron. Exploring the landscape of the wrestling business in the ‘80s, the show proved to be a major hit with fans and critics alike across its three seasons.

For their part, Netflix has cited the problems of filming such a physically intimate series with such a large cast as being the driving force for the decision to cancel GLOW.

Sadly, GLOW is one of many shows to have been cancelled over the last few months, with I Am Not Okay With This and The Society just two series that Netflix has axed.