FOX Cancels “Hieroglyph” Before it Even Airs

WHY is my fall lineup already ruined! FOX, WHY!? My heart. It hurts. I had even written a whole Racialicious article about this! What am I going to do now?

Fox has released Hieroglyph from its fall/winter schedule. The show was scrapped, according to The Hollywood Reporter, due to creative reasons.

Only the first episode had been filmed on the pricey Hieroglyph before writers began breaking scripts and stories, which weren’t meeting a certain level creatively, for the rest of the season. Filming on the remaining 12 episodes was expected to start later this year. Hieroglyph was expected to premiere on Fox in early 2015.

There’s some other behind-the-scenes mumbo-jumbo since former Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly recently left his post. No word on whether some other internal things caused the show’s cancellation. To back to The Hollywood Reporter:

Last fall, Fox gave the action-adventure fantasy drama a hefty 13-episode order as part of Reilly’s move to bypass the traditional pilot season, bringing on Being Human executive producer Anna Fricke via an overall deal to serve as showrunner. Hieroglyph was Reilly’s passion project; he envisioned it as Fox’s version of the sweeping epic Game of Thrones.

More on any fallout (if it occurs) as this story develops.