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Flatch is no longer a welcoming place.
Fox has canceled comedy Welcome To Flatch after two seasons.
“Although the audience response was not as great as we had hoped, we were amazed by the creativity of the enormously talented Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig and the outstanding, dedicated cast and crew they had assembled. “We look forward to working with them in the future and are grateful to all of our partners at Lionsgate, Jenny’s Perkins Street Productions, Paul’s Feigco Entertainment, BBC Studios’ Angie Stephenson, and Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper,” said a Fox spokesperson.
That’s no surprise considering the US remake of cult British comedy This Country was on the rise.
The series followed a documentary film crew as they set out to explore the lives of the residents of the small American town of Flatch.
The film starred Holmes as Kelly Mallet, Sam Straley as Shrub Mallett, Sean William Scott as Father Joe, Aya Cash as Cheryl Peterson, Justin Linville as Mickey St. Jean, Taylor Ortega as Nadine Garcia-Parney and Krystal Smith as Big Mandy.
The series was produced by Lionsgate, the production arm of BBC Studios in LA, and Fox Entertainment, with Bicks as showrunner. She is producing through her collaborators at Perkins Street Productions alongside Feig, through his Feigco Entertainment, Angie Stephenson and Charlie Cooper of BBC Studios, and Daisy May Cooper, who created the original BBC series.
In May, Michael Thorn, president of scripted programming at Fox Entertainment, told Deadline that they were “taking a step back with our live-action comedy.”
“We’re still talking about it [Welcome To Flatch]. But I think while we wait for the strike to end, we’ll look at our development and “Welcome To Flatch” and make the best decision for that comedic goal… and see where we stand. I think we will have news soon once the strikes take place,” he said at the time.