Fox Pulls the Plug on Midseason Ancient Egypt Drama "Hieroglyph"
by Vlada Gelman
June 30, 2014


"Hieroglyph" is history. Fox has canceled the ancient Egypt-set, action-adventure drama — without having aired a single episode — EW.com reports.

Despite getting a straight-to-series, 13-episode order, the show wasn’t coming together creatively in the way that executives had hoped, sources tell EW.



"Hieroglyph", which was slated to debut in 2015, centered on a notorious thief (Beauty and the Beast’s Max Brown), who is plucked from prison to serve the Pharaoh while navigating palace intrigue, seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and even a few divine sorcerers.

The cast also included John Rhys-Davies, Reece Ritchie, Kelsey Chow, Condola Rashad, Caroline Ford and Antony Bunsee.

http://tvline.com/2014/06/30/hieroglyph-cancelled-fox-midseason-2015/

Too bad. It would have been interesting.

Fox Exec on Scrapping "Hieroglyph"
by Andy Swift
July 20 2014


Fox Networks Group chairman Peter Rice took the stage on his own at the network’s executive session at the TCAs this morning.

He addressed his decision on scrapping "Hieroglyph" before it made it to the airwaves.



“It was a really ambitious project but ultimately, we looked at the first episode and decided it didn’t live up to the expectations we had for it.

Rather than keep plotting through the episodes and hoping to fix it on the fly, we decided to stop.”

http://tvline.com/2014/07/20/bones-season-11-glee-farewell-season/