A+E Networks CEO Nancy Dubuc has reflected on the decision to cancel Escaping KKK before its premiere, per Deadline:
The series about the Ku Klux Klan “was greenlit a year and a half ago, long before we we had any sense about where the nation would be right now. I think there’s a combination of seeing around the corner of a theme that was emerging, ending up in a moment in our nation’s history [that] none of us were expecting….and dealing with producers who may or may not have been following documentary protocol.”
She adds that the company must “take a close look at making sure that we’re more surgical and more tailored in dealing with our production community and producing partners in [developing] stricter guidelines around how and when shows are produced. But we’re going to do that after the investigation is complete. We can’t do that without knowing the full story.”
Patricia Bell says
Thank you for canceling the KKK reality show.