Hulu is not proceeding with a second season of its original drama series Black Cake, starring Adrienne Warren and Mia Isaac.
The news is not surprising as it’s been 10 months since Season 1 ended its run on the streamer. This marks a formal resolution for the series, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey‘s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan‘s Kapital Entertainment, whose fate had been sealed for months.
It didn’t necessarily have to be — I’d heard chatter that Netflix was interested in picking up the acclaimed drama but the inquiry didn’t go far as program relocations from one major streamer to another are very rare — and complicated — in the era of streaming wars.
Netflix had been among the original suitors for the project, which landed at Hulu in 2021 after a bidding war. Based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, with its first and only season landing NAACP Image Awards nominations for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series for Cerar as well as a GLAAD Media Awards nomination for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
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