‘Our Kind Of People’ Canceled By Fox After One Season
deadline.comThe fate of Leah Franklin Dupont may remain unsolved after Fox canceled freshman drama Our Kind of People. The series, which was created by Karin Gist and Wendy Calhoun with Lee Daniels as exec producer, was given a 12-episode run when it was greenlit in March 2021 under Fox’s straight-to-series model.
It evoked comparisons to the Lee-co-created Empire, which had a very successful run on the network but linear ratings were soft.It follows journey of Angela Vaughn (Yaya DaCosta), a single mom with a plan to reclaim her family’s name.
But when she discovers a huge secret, her life becomes intertwined with a powerful Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts family who are not keen to welcome Angela and her daughter to the neighborhood.At the of end of season one, which ended in January, Nadine Ellis’ Dupont was shot.
Gist told Deadline that had the series been renewed, she would survive the shooting from an assailant that was originally looking to harm her father Teddy Franklin (Joe Morton).“What I love about that is that we spent the season bringing the family together and so, you always have to give families something to root for and a reason to bring them back,” she said. “By the end of the season, the family is cracked because of the Teddy of it all.
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