Hulu has officially canceled the drama series Black Cake after just one season. The series was based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name by Charmaine Wilkerson and was adapted Marissa Jo Cerar, who was showrunner. Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment produced the series. The series starred Mia Isaac, Adrienne Warren, Chipo Chung, Ashley Thomas, Lashay Anderson, Faith Alabi and Glynn Turman, with Ahmed Eljah, Simon Wan and Sonita Henry appearing as recurring guest stars. Deadline was the first to report the news, which comes down 10 months after season of the show ended. Black Cake followed the source material of its novel, so it is not entirely surprising that the story would wrap after one season. However, it seems as if there was set to be more life for the show. The report from Deadline states that though the fate of the show had been “sealed for months,” Netflix was once potentially interested in picking it up. Was Netflix going to...
