{"id":902611,"date":"2026-09-20T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902611\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:26:10","slug":"ride-or-die-canceled-at-prime-video-hannah-waddingham-and-octavia-spencer-starred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902611\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride Or Die Canceled At Prime Video \u2014 Hannah Waddingham And Octavia Spencer Starred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/intro-1789864063.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2263286\/ride-or-die-canceled-prime-video-hannah-waddingham-octavia-spencer\/\" data-post-id=\"2263286\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Ride Or Die Canceled At Prime Video After 1 Season: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Judith on Ride or Die\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Prime Video<\/p>\n<p>The ride is over for &#8220;Ride or Die&#8221;: Prime Video has canceled the action comedy starring Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer after one season, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/09\/ride-or-die-canceled-prime-video-shopped-1237108506\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deadline<\/a> reports. (TVLine has reached out to Prime Video for confirmation.)\u00a0Paramount Television Studios are reportedly shopping the series to other networks, however.<\/p>\n<p>Waddingham and Spencer starred as\u00a0best friends Judith Burton and\u00a0Debbie Claybourne, &#8220;who thought they knew everything about each other \u2014 except Judith turns out to be an international assassin,&#8221; per the official logline. &#8220;When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith&#8217;s past and a hit goes horribly wrong, both of their worlds are turned upside down as they&#8217;re forced to go on the run together. It&#8217;s a race against time and a road trip across Europe, with law enforcement, highly trained assassins and some very dangerous criminals at their heels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation comes as a bit of a surprise, since &#8220;Ride or Die&#8221;\u00a0was popular enough to make several appearances on the Nielsen streaming charts, logging five straight weeks among the Top 10 Originals across all streaming services, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2250967\/streaming-tv-ratings-ted-lasso-season-4-my-life-with-the-walter-boys-season-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pulling in 506 million minutes of viewing time<\/a> during the week of August 3\u20139 to rank #5.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                Ride or Die premiered on Prime Video this summer<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ride-or-die-premiered-on-prime-video-this-summer-1789864064.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2263286\/ride-or-die-canceled-prime-video-hannah-waddingham-octavia-spencer\/\" data-post-id=\"2263286\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-slide-title=\"Ride Or Die Canceled At Prime Video After 1 Season: Ride or Die premiered on Prime Video this summer\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Debbie on Ride or Die\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Prime Video<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ride or Die&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2189099\/hannah-waddingham-octavia-spencer-ride-or-die-trailer-release-date-prime-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">made its debut on Prime Video on July 15<\/a>, with all eight episodes dropping at once. Along with stars Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer, the cast included\u00a0Ed Skrein (&#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;) as Billy, Calam Lynch (&#8220;Miss Austen&#8221;) as Sam, Savannah Steyn (&#8220;Intergalactic&#8221;) as Queenie, Jamie Parker (&#8220;The Crown&#8221;) as David, Jacky Ido (&#8220;The Catch&#8221;) as Jacques, Sylvia Hoeks (&#8220;See&#8221;) as Ana, and Bill Nighy (&#8220;Lazarus&#8221;) as The Director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ride or Die&#8221; hailed from series creator Tessa Coates, showrunner Matt Miller, and director Peyton Reed, all of whom executive-produced alongside Spencer and Waddingham, Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Irene Yeung, Brian Clisham, and Stephanie Kluft.<\/p>\n<p>The series did give Waddingham \u2014 best known for her Emmy-winning role as club owner Rebecca Welton on Apple TV&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2228680\/ted-lasso-season-4-review-apple-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ted Lasso<\/a>&#8221; \u2014 a chance to prove <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2239193\/ted-lasso-hannah-waddingham-prime-video-series-action-ride-or-die\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">she has action hero chops<\/a>, and we even added it to our list of Waddingham&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2236496\/hannah-waddingham-best-tv-shows-not-ted-lasso-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5 best TV shows that aren&#8217;t &#8220;Ted Lasso.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2196897\/canceled-renewed-tv-shows-scorecard-premiere-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TVLine&#8217;s Scorecard<\/a> has been updated to reflect the cancellation. Will you miss trotting the globe with the &#8220;Ride or Die&#8221;\u00a0ladies?\u00a0Hit the comments to share your thoughts on the news.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Prime Video The ride is over for &#8220;Ride&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-902611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}