Alleged Photos From The Original Version Of "The Idol" Have Gone Viral, And I Cannot Emphasize Enough How It Looks Like A Different Show

Enter Sam, who scrapped reportedly $54-75 million worth of the the nearly-finished project. His rewrites and reshoots, according to one person involved with production who spoke to Rolling Stone, took the show "from satire to the thing it was satirizing." The publication described the original show as being about a "troubled starlet falling victim to a predatory industry figure and fighting to reclaim her own agency."

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“Amy was doing her best in an impossible situation, but she was going to lose this no matter what," one production member said of Amy's work on The Idol, with alleged incomplete scripts, an inexperienced showrunner, low budgets, "near-impossible" network expectations, and tight schedules all cited.