Project Greenlight hits a stop sign, Project Redlight; you name the pun, and Matt Damon glumly affirms. The unscripted docu-series-originally created by unshakeable movie bros Matt Damon and Ben Affleck way back in 2001, and brought back a year ago after a decade off the air-will not be returning for another season.
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“When we picked up a new season in 2014, we imagined a one season revival and decided in early 2016 another season did not make sense for us”, said HBO in a statement.
Damon broke the news during an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday. They do such a great job. He said he would shop the show around to other outlets, particularly a streaming service.
“I really liked it and thought that the show went great”, Damon said while promoting the latest “Jason Bourne” film.
“There are places where I think we could do really well”, he told the AP. The show came back to HBO for a fourth season past year to much buzz and some controversy over Damon’s comments regarding diversity, for which he later apologized.
The movie challenge series, which first aired from 2001 to 2003 on HBO, follows the search for a first-time director and chronicles the behind-the-scenes process of turning a script into a feature film.
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Season 4 premiered in September 2015 to just 154,000 total viewers and a.05 in the 18-49 demographic in live-plus-same-day ratings.
