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Efforts to move the series to Netflix imploded and will not make the move as an original series for season five.
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00:00We're gonna rob that store.
00:03What?
00:04We're gonna rob that store.
00:06Yes!
00:08It's a bad ending for NBC's Good Girls.
00:11The beloved but little-watched-on-linear drama series
00:14has been canceled after four seasons on NBC.
00:17Efforts to move the series to Netflix,
00:19which serves as its streaming home,
00:21after a global rights deal for the series have imploded.
00:24And the series will not make the move to the streaming giant
00:26as an original series for season five.
00:29Yeah, and then what?
00:30Whatever we want.
00:32The five remaining episodes of the drama
00:34from creator Jenna Banz and Universal Television
00:37will continue to air on NBC.
00:39Sources note that NBC wanted to bring the show back
00:41for a fifth and final season,
00:43but could not come to a financial agreement
00:45that would have allowed the show to continue on.
00:47The failed effort to move the series to Netflix
00:49comes after former NBC co-president of Scripted,
00:52Tracy Picosta, who renewed the show multiple times
00:55during her run at the network,
00:57exited to become head of comedy at Netflix.
01:00Good Girls was the last of the broadcast bubble shows
01:02awaiting word on their futures.
01:04Options on the cast were due to expire at the end of the month,
01:07prompting NBC and Universal TV to announce the cancellation
01:10before the season completed airing.
01:12Oh, you guys.
01:13I never even thought about that.
01:15Wow.
01:16Hmm.
01:17To read more about this story,
01:18you can head to THR.com.
01:19For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Chelsea Briggs.
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