Shining Valehas 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. TheShining Valecastalso 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 Valehas appeared in theMaxlibrary. 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 thatShining Valeseason 3is in the cards, and in fact, itdoes 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 includedGeneration,Summer Camp Island,Vinyl,Mrs. Fletcher, andAt Home with Amy Sedaris.
Other streaming services removed their own underperforming content around this same time, including Disney+ with theirWillowsequel series and Paramount+ withGrease: 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, theBatgirlmovie, which was in post-production and intended for a Max exclusive release, wascancelled as a tax write-off. The animated sequelScoob! Holiday Haunt, which was intended for a Max release as well, was also shelved, as was the Warner Bros. live-action and animation hybrid comedyCoyote 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 Valewill 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 thatit exists alongside other HBO and Max horror-comedy originals includingLos EspookysandVelmacould 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.
Shining Vale
Cast
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.
