A couple weeks ago, FOX shifted their low-rated Rake series to Friday nights. Now, the show is on the move again.
Rake follows a lawyer (Greg Kinnear) who tries to do good but just can’t seem to get beyond his numerous addictions that cause him so much trouble. The cast also includes John Ortiz, Necar Zadegan, Bojana Novakovic, David Harbour, Tara Summers, Miranda Otto, and Ian Colletti.
The series is being replaced by Kitchen Nightmares as of this Friday night. A rerun of the Gordon Ramsay series will lead into the one-hour series finale of Raising Hope at 9pm. Season six of Nightmares kicks off on April 11th.
Back-to-back episodes of Rake will air on Saturday, April 5th, starting at 8pm. That will leave one episode unaired — the sixth installment produced, titled “Mammophile.” No word on when or if that will see the light of day.
One thing is clear however. Despite the fact that FOX hasn’t cancelled it yet, there’s no way that Rake will be returning for a second season.
What do you think? Have you been watching the Rake TV series? Why do you think it hasn’t caught on?
What a shame to cancel Rake. I guess the rule of thumb is to lose the good and keep the bad and the ugly!
Now, a month later, I’m still sad that “Rake” is no longer on TV. It was one of my favorite shows. The acting was surperb and Greg Kinnear was adorable. I just don’t understand the cancellation. Why wasn’t there more reviews about the show and more comments from the newspapers. It was like it didn’t exist. I didn’t even see a newspaper mention that the show was cancelled. Could it be that the name “Rake” confused people about what the show was about. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!!
My husband and I love rake. Poor ratings is due to constantly being on the move! We watched it on demand or would never be able to find it. My husband first found it by accident on demand! Please don’t cancel it! Greg kinear is terrific in this show.
My husband and I love rake. Poor ratings is due to constantly being on the move! We watched it on demand or would never be able to find it.
Please do not cancel this show. It is the best show on TV now
DON’T CANCEL RAKE! My husband and I finally- FINALLY found a show we love to watch together, Hasn’t happened since Seinfeld!
I LOVED this show. WHY would you possibly cancel it???????????????
This is one of the better shows that we’ve seen..why on earth was it taken of tje air???
Don’t cancel the show it is funny,serious and very truthful there are worst shows on TV reality TV everywhere leave the show on advertise more!
You people don’t get it. I think its way better than the AUSSIE series its just in the wrong time slot ,It should be on Tuesday after agents of shield its WAY BETTER THAN THAT CRAPPY GORDEN RAMSEY I know that shield is a different network but thats where the time slot should be .
The show is well written, and even more important, well acted. Greg Kinnear and all of the cast members are topnotch. It is a pleasure to watch craftsmen convey their art. Each episode built on the previous one with cohesive plots as the characters grew. So many of the shows on TV now are trash, junk. And to replace it with the loud mouthed Ramsey is insulting. Please don’t cancel this show. Pick a spot and leave it alone. Promote it better.
It just started to warm up. Actors just started to get comfortable with their characters.
Rake Rocks! Best show I’ve ever seen since the Sopranos! Pull some advertizing together and you’d get better ratings. Everyone I’ve talked to about it has never heard of the show. Kinnear plays the part brilliantly as does the rest of the cast. Never a dull moment, hallarious, intellectual, unpredictable, and clever. Damnit…and they left us hangin’ on the last episode here on the west coast. Bring it back for cryin out loud! There’s nothing left to watch! Get it together Fox! We don’t want your Loud-mouth Ramsey, idiotic Raising Hope and B.S. Reality shows!!!
What an awesome show. I don’t watch network tv, but this show has my attention. We are the 40 somethings and 50 somethings that get into this genre. The low ratings had to be because they couldn’t figure where to put it. Keep the show. You may have a cult following, but it will work even 20 years from now. Look at Bevis & Butthead, and I never watched one of them stupid shows yet it lasted. It was its cult following, the stupid idiots who run the world now
Really great show. Can’t believe it had low ratings. It was just getting good and people were talking about it.
I loved this show. Please reconsider!!!!!!!!!!!!
Losing this show would be a crime. The characters are terrific and it’s joyfully unpredictable. DON’T CANCEL IT!