The Heathers Reboot Is Delayed. But the Show Was Always a Bad Idea

Nothing helps make a new TV broadcaster like a big splash. At least that’s what the Paramount Network—the rebrand of what had once been the young-men-targeting Spike TV—had surely hoped. One of their first original programs was to have been Heathers, a satirical black comedy based on the 1988 Winona Ryder movie. Like its source material, the show deals with violence in schools. But its self-conscious “edginess” came to restrain the show's prospects.