HBO’s ‘Confederate’ Isn’t Canceled & The Delay Isn’t Because Of The Social Media Backlash

Amazingly, HBO is still moving new series “Confederate” forward, despite the long delay that left everyone believing it was going to be canceled. The execs still plan for it to be released, and are adamant that it is definitely not because of the public backlash. Which there is a lot of.

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The HBO series is run by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who are probably best known for their work as the showrunners for “Game of Thrones,” another HBO series but with a lot more popularity. It is because of them, the network president Casey Bloys advocated, that the show is being put on hold.

“Dan and David are finishing up the final season [of Game of Thrones] and then they are going to go into the Star Wars universe,” Bloys said in an interview with TVLine. “When they come out of that, I assume they will come back to us.”

“Confederate” will be an hour-long drama that takes place in an alternate timeline, where the South won the Civil War and slavery still exists. Now, the not-so-United-States is gearing up for a third Civil War that will affect everyone involved, much like the last one. The series will focus on individuals and how they are affected by the events in this new world.

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When the show was announced, however, HBO didn’t exactly get the press release just right, and they definitely didn’t get the response they were hoping for. Many people took to social media, worried and outraged about the portrayal of slavery in a world so similar to our own, where we already have too many bigoted problems we’re dealing with. The network did make a point of apologizing, but it looks like the show will go on.