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I don’t know if acceptance is the right word, but I finally got to a place where I was trying to make my brain be okay with it when the possibility of this movie started happening. I went through what I can only call mourning. So, when it came out, just like that, it was like the rug had been pulled out from under me. We had no awareness that we were not gonna come back. Producing this musical TV show and writing it, coming from my own personal experience and just trying to do a new musical every eight days with the levels of challenges and everything, it just was all-consuming. Zoey’s is so close to my heart and it’s been my entire life for the last three years. Honestly, not to sound too dramatic, but for me, it was like a death.
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Was there an emotional rollercoaster that went on, through all of that? Was there a real moment where you thought that was truly it and that you wouldn’t have closure? What was that emotional journey like?ĪUSTIN WINSBERG: It was whiplash. And now, here you are at Roku with a Christmas movie.
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And then, you thought it might go to Peacock, but that didn’t happen. And through it all, Zoey learns that forming new traditions with her loved ones, instead of forcing something that isn’t meant to be, might just be the best path forward.ĭuring this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, executive producer/writer Winsberg talked about the emotional roller coaster of the series getting canceled and then returning in movie form, how quickly they had to pull the entire thing off, the biggest challenges in finding the right story to tell, the importance of having Steenburgen tap dance, balancing the holiday songs with pop songs, and whether there could still be more Zoey’s in the future.Ĭollider: You thought the show would be picked up by NBC for another season, but it wasn’t picked up. However, attempting to recreate the magic of Christmas is no easy task for someone who not only still hears everyone’s inner thoughts manifest in song form, but is also trying to explain to her boyfriend Max ( Skylar Astin) that his new and identical powers are not as easy to handle as he thinks they are while also helping her mother ( Mary Steenburgen) navigate a possible return to the dating world.
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From creator Austin Winsberg, the feature-length film Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas (available to stream for free on The Roku Channel) continues the story after two seasons of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlistby exploring how Zoey ( Jane Levy) is doing on her first holiday without her father ( Peter Gallagher).