Renee Young On Why She Was Disheartened With WWE Backstage

Some time after WWE signed a deal to bring Friday Night SmackDown to FOX, it was announced that a wrestling talk show by the name of WWE Backstage would also be premiering on FS1.

Renee Young served as the main host of the show, but unfortunately for Renee the television program was officially canceled back in June.

During an appearance on the SI Media Podcast with Jimmy Traina, the former WWE broadcaster noted that she had high hopes for Backstage when the show began, but eventually it started to feel like another WWE kick-off show.

“I was a little surprised in the sense that, we got a vague email, ‘we have a Zoom call today.’ I was like, ‘What?’ I message a producer and go, ‘Is this bad news?’ He’s normally great about keeping me in the loop and he didn’t respond to me. I was like, ‘Oh shit, something is up.’ It sucks that Backstage got canceled, I think it was starting to get into its groove. The show still could have been more than it was. To me, it started to feel like another WWE kick-off show, and that’s not what the heart of the project started out as. That was disheartening to me. Going to work for FOX, I was like, ‘Hell yeah, now we can get out from under the thumb.’ You hear the stories about being overproduced (in WWE). To get away from that and be under the FOX umbrella, I was like, ‘We can finally do some stuff.’ No, we can’t. Our hands are still tied.”

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