Fox Cancels ALLEN GREGORY, Fate of 'House', 'Terra Nova' Still Undecided

FOX Entertainment President Kevin Reilly has announced that the network has cancelled its animated series ALLEN GREGORY. The series was created by Jonah Hill, Andrew Mogel, and Jarrad Paul and premiered on the network last October.  It told the story of Allen Gregory De Longpre (Jonah Hill), a pretentious seven-year-old being raised by his father, Richard, and his father's life partner, Jeremy, and Julie, an adopted daughter. "We will not be making any more 'Allen Gregory,'" Reilly announced at last weekend's TCA Presss Tour, adding that they're still in business with Jonah Hill. "He's got a live-action comedy with us. We're going to be doing more shows with Jonah."

The executive also announced that the network has not yet determined the fate of its series 'House' and 'Terra Nova'. "I think it's hard to imagine [the] network without 'House,'" Reilly said about their veteran drama, the contract for which is up this season. "This is not going to be like the pink slip goes out and that's the end of 'House'... we kind of agreed mutually to put it off until after the first of the year and then we'll sit down and see where we are. We haven't had that meeting yet." 

Commenting on the future of 'Terra Nova', Reilly explained, "We made money on it, the studio made money on it and the audience enjoyed it. The show looked fantastic, it's clearly a conceit people wanted to watch, they had ample opportunity to reject it: they didn't." He later admitted that, "There were a lot of chefs in the kitchen going in. That did make for a little bit of a challenge. The show was hunting for itself creatively through the season." Ultimately, he said "we are going to decide very soon because it does need to get back into production over the next month."

 

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