SLEEPY HOLLOW R.I.P – Cancelled At Fox After Four Seasons…

Hold on to your heads, folk, our favourite ‘sleuth’ Detective show is cancelled by Fox. Finally buried, deep, deep underground.

                            Network: Fox

We all remember when this mystery-adventure drama transformed onto our screens. The show was  a modern-day take on the classic Washington Irving story. Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers. Unfortunately, the infamous Headless Horseman is also revived and goes on a murderous rampage in present-day Sleepy Hollow.

Ichabod quickly realized that his old adversary is just the beginning, as the resurrected rider is but the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He’s only one of the many formidable foes that Ichabod must face to protect not only Sleepy Hollow, but the world.

In 2013 Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod discovers a town that he no longer recognizes and grapples to understand how it works. He teams up with Lieutenant Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie), a young cop who has her own supernatural experiences.

Based on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the Fox series was created by Alex Kurtzman, Roberti Orci, Phillip Iscove and Len Wiseman.

Though the show was a buzzy fan-favourite series and one of Culturedemandsgeeks fav’s, the cancellation comes as little surprise, as the supernatural drama wrapped its lowest-rated season yet this March. Season 4 was ordered with a shorter run of 13 episodes, after every other season had spanned 18 episodes.

The fantasy-cop drama saw its ratings plummet in season four, averaging a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo and 1.9 million total viewers — down 40% in the demo and and 37% in viewers from season three.

The show had also undergone significant changes over the years both in front of and behind the camera. Following the second season, showrunner Mark Goffman exited the show and was replaced by Clifton Campbell. After the third season, star Nicole Beharie, exited the series, posing a new creative direction for the show’s fourth season, though critics had praised the on-screen chemistry of Beharie and co-star Tom Mison, throughout the first three seasons.

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