Mindy Kaling‘s comedy show “Not Suitable For Work” has been canceled by Hulu after just one season.
Reports suggest series producer Warner Bros. Television plans to shop the show around for a potential new home.
The show’s cast has taken to social media to react to the news, while Kaling expressed her gratitude to fans who watched and left “sweet comments” about the series.
Hulu has officially canceled Mindy Kaling’s workplace comedy “Not Suitable For Work” after just one season, per Variety.
The nine-episode series, which premiered in June this year, will not return for a second installment on the Disney-backed streaming platform, but it remains unclear why the decision was made.
Created by Kaling alongside showrunner Charlie Grandy and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Howard Klein, the show centered on a group of work-obsessed twentysomethings trying to balance high-pressure careers with their chaotic personal lives in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood.
The ensemble cast featured Ella Hunt, Avantika, Will Angus, Jack Martin, Nicholas Duvernay, and Jay Ellis.
Kaling And Cast React To Cancellation
Kaling and the series’ cast have taken to social media to react to the news, essentially thanking fans for sticking with them along the journey.
Sharing a handful of behind-the-scenes photos from the set on Instagram, the 47-year-old prolific creator wrote, “I love this show, I loved making this show, I love these people, and I love all of you for all your sweet comments, messages, edits and for watching @notsuitableforwork.”
Martin reposted Kaling’s post before noting that he “will always love” the show and “everyone who was a part of it … thank you for watching.”
Avantika shared a photo of her co-stars and wrote, “I love this cast and this team so very much!”
She explained that the show gave her “an opportunity of a lifetime” and allowed her to meet people and audiences she “could have never even dreamed of meeting before.”
“I am so grateful to Mindy, Charlie, Hulu, [and] Warner Bros for giving us this chance. We love you,” she added.
The Emmy-Nominated Writer Revealed Her Show Was Inspired By Her ‘Painful’ 20s
Back in June, the “Ocean’s 8” actress revealed that the series is semi-autobiographical and was inspired by her own “painful” post-grad phase in New York City.
In a chat with PEOPLE, she explained that the series sort of completes a trilogy with two other shows she created, namely, “Never Have I Ever” and “The Sex Lives of College Girls.”
“Not Suitable for Work is kind of my third show that I’ve done about my youth. Never Have I Ever is about my teenage years,” she said. “The Sex Lives of College Girls was [about] my college [experience], and then this is about my 20s.”
Mindy Kaling Reveals The Struggles Behind Her Early Years
Kaling graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in playwrighting in 2001, after which she moved to the Big Apple. It took a while before she got her breakthrough gig as a writer, before starring in “The Office.”
“I am surprised by how vividly I remember the time when I moved from Boston to New York at 21,” she continued. “And what a rude awakening it was.”
Going further to describe the tumultuous experience of navigating a big city like New York, the “Mindy Project” star said that phase comes with “the feeling of having so much to say and having so much to offer, or thinking I did, and having no access.”
“When your ambition does not meet your access, to me, it was really theatrical, and fun, and also a painful time in my life,” she told the news outlet. “I also had so many crushes and a really dynamic friend group, and I just wanted to do a show about that.”
Kaling Teases A Potential Show About Her 30s
Despite the setback and the completion of the trilogy in her early years, fans may not have heard the last from Kaling.
Elsewhere in the interview with PEOPLE, the mother of three admitted that she doesn’t have any idea for a show about another phase of her life floating in her head at the time, but is “examining my time in my 30s.”
“I literally just think of my 30s as going from The Office to The Mindy Project. I don’t remember ever not being on a sound stage,” she said. “So maybe there’s something there about a woman who gives up her entire life to the pursuit of television.”
Kaling added, “I do have a lot of great stories of that time. Honestly, between Charlie Grandy, Ike Barinholtz, and Tracey Wigfield, and all these writers, we probably have a lot of fun stories for a show.”
