Fox cancels Raising Hope
When Fox announced the renewals of New Girl (!), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (!!), The Mindy Project (?), and The Following (boo) on Friday, it left only a small fraction of the network’s programs with uncertain fates. As reported by Variety this afternoon, Raising Hope will not be one of the shows Fox keeps around to fill out its schedule while it tears down pilot season and transforms into a year-round TV machine. The show had come a long way from its pilot—in which twentysomething Jimmy Chance (Lucas Neff) finds himself the unexpected father of a serial killer’s baby—maturing into a colorful, live-action cartoon that served as one of network TV’s last outposts for working-class protagonists. (And thus the Hecks of The Middle find themselves freighted with just one more burden.)