Why hbo cancelled luck

It was shown in the UK on Sky Atlantic. However, Ms Casey claims the network engaged in efforts to "conceal and cover-up" animal safety violations while filming. Ms Casey, who held her position with the AHA for 13 years, claimed officers witnessed horses being "drugged to perform" and "underweight and sick horses unsuited for work [being] routinely used".

AHA said in a statement to movie website Deadline that it "is unable to comment on this pending legal matter". Horse deaths doom Hoffman drama. We maintained the highest safety standards throughout production, higher in fact than any protocols existing in horseracing anywhere with many fewer incidents than occur in racing or than befall horses normally in barns at night or pastures.

Accordingly, we have reached this difficult decision. We are immensely proud of this series, the writing, the acting, the filmmaking, the celebration of the culture of horses, and everyone involved in its creation.

This has been a tremendous collaboration and one that we plan to continue in the future. Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. All Rights reserved. It was also remarkably tetchy. The opening scenes saw Hoffman as the recently released criminal boss Chester "Ace" Bernstein, being driven from prison by henchman Gus Dennis Farina.

Good-natured small talk on Gus's part was met by Hoffman snarling: "You think you're funny? The whole series seethed with the grumpiness of a thousand Van Morrisons. The peevishness was doubtless there to denote "edge", but need it have been so terse?

In Goodfellas, at least everyone was jovially hale and well met before they whacked each other. Here, it simply amounted to a pervasive unlikability. Hoffman's Ace, we were assured, was a major shot and wheeler-dealer in the s, but as with Hoffman the actor we have to take this on trust. As a screen presence he was utterly unengaging; the actor and directors apparently felt it was enough that he was there, Being Hoffman.

Luck was also desperately short on oestrogen: the very few female characters, including Joan Allen as Hoffman's would-be love interest, were woefully underdrawn.

It's telling that HBO's biggest successes have not been major star vehicles; Steve Buscemi , in Boardwalk Empire, is an exception, and one who combines screen excellence with a jobbing actor's ethic.