Fox has decided to not renew its freshman series Filthy Rich for a second season. The series starred Sex and the City alumna Kim Cattrall.
Filthy Rich, created by Tate Taylor, was originally intended for a summer run but was shifted to fall when the network needed to fill slots on its schedule due to their fall season being delayed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Since Filthy Rich was shot and ready to go, the move seemed like a good one considering most people are spending more time at home but network TV hasn’t exactly benefitted from quarantine viewing. Filthy Rich has averaged 3.2 million viewers and a 0.5 rating among adults 18-49 thus far, including a week of delayed viewing. Those numbers just aren’t good enough for a large ensemble series. The show has currently aired five of its ten episodes and the plan is for all of them to air.
Filthy Rich featured Cattrall as Margaret Monreaux, the matriarch of a mega-rich Southern family famous for creating a wildly successful Christian television network. After her husband dies in a plane crash, Margaret and the family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will — threatening their family name and fortune. The series also stars Melia Kreiling, Aubrey Dollar, Corey Cott, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Mark L. Young, Olivia Macklin, Steve Harris, and Aaron Lazar.
