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?
Rake is an adult show and not a silly reality show. This was a well written and amusing show. Please change your mind. You needed to advertise more so more people would hear about it. By not doing this you made this wonderful show fail. Don’t blame the public blame yourself
I liked this show alot, WTF DID YOU CANCEL IT FOR
For all of us Rake viewers, in the Sacramento area, Rake is on tonight 6/27/14 at 9pm Fox channel. Hopefully, it’ll get some good air time, and maybe get a reprieve .
It’s on at 9PM tonight in NYC area, too. They had one episode that had not aired, guessing this is it. Very excited to see it again.
Very excited, too. Just stumbled on it switching channels. It was a great series.
Love Greg Kinnear. Fox is a network run by ********.
I feel down hearing this might get cancelled.. Please bring this awesome show back on. It’s genius all round. The cast are all brilliant. They have so much character.
The brits love this show.. we need YOU RAKE US !!
I was just starting to like this show.. Come on Man!
Love this show. A great dark comedy, interesting, quirky characters, and how can you miss with Gregg Kinear? He’s brilliant and in his perfect role. There’s nothing like it out there right now. Wish they would at least go one more season with it. I think it could garner a great & loyal following…it just needs time. I told all of my friends about it & all of them started watching. We are all into it. Hope they renew.
That is fox what do you expect from bunch of Idiots
I lOVE THIS SHOW!!!!
Great show and looked for to the next episode. ?.then I couldn’t find it oneither Thursday or Friday. Just decided to see what happen to it…what ???? Canceled??? Of course just when we start to connect and enjoy a show there it goes. Very disappointed as this had lots of entertainment packed into a show. Fox should reconsider RAKE !!
Give us Rake back!! Finally a show with some intelligent writing and you cancel it??? You know, Seinfeld tanked the first couple seasons. Give people time. Stand behind the writers and cast!!!
I am so bummed out that this show might be cancelled. Greg is awesome and the show is very clever. Not predictable like so many ridiculous American shows. So, reality TV took it’s Friday spot? Are you kidding me? This is a good series and I was hoping it will bring back the trend of making real shows. I really wanted to see more of this show. Please Fox, don’t cancel it. My of us are watching!
With all the tv variety how can u tell which to drop. Everyone’s taste is different. Rake is a good show. How dare u drop it. For those who watched we will never know what happened in the plot. One season was not enought. The show was great and its fans won’t have a chance to recommend it. U say it was o the borderline so tip it the other way!!!!
I cannot believe this show is being cancelled we are obsessed with it in the UK. I am gutted finally I find a show I can really enjoy and it’s being cancelled! Not happy
I totally agree
I hope this show isn’t canceled, I love the character that Greg Kinnear plays and the messes he gets himself into. I’m surprised it’s done so poorly in the ratings. Saw somewhere on-line where folks compared it to the original Australian version and preferred that one instead. I tried watching that, and I think it didn’t come close to being as good as the US version, yet the Australian version is very popular. I hope the show comes back.
Awesome show….Greg Kinnear’s character is absolutely FABULOUS. Time slot is horrible but I DVR so I don’t care about that, but I think that’s what’s breaking it. I knew it was doomed, anything I like gets cancelled not a reality buff and that’s the flavor of TV these days.
I have no idea other than maybe the time slot. Greg Kinnear’s character is FABULOUS! The show itself is terrific as well. Just shows why I never watch FOX tv shows anything good gets cancelled, it’s great if you’re into reality and sports.
This is an excellent show, very funny and serious at the same time, diverse and fun. Why on earth would you cancel a program like this? Keep it on Saturday nights, at least the people who don’t go out get to watch a great program. If its on at 8:pm the show might even have a chance with the younger folks before they go out.
Whatever the case, this is a great show, please keep it on. My family really enjoyed it.
Exactly … Why would anyone cancel this show? Your comment is exactly why FOX would do so: This is an excellent show, very funny and serious at the same time, diverse and fun. Why on earth would you cancel a program like this? ” It is too real for FOX. I hope another network picks it up. One of the very few shows I truly enjoy. Reality shows dominate and they are the most uninteresting things going … besides being horrific for the kids whose parents are exploiting their lives whether a part of the show or not. Please let… Read more »
This show was in a bad time slot-it should not be canceed