{"id":824971,"date":"2026-08-25T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824971\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:14:11","slug":"hulu-cancels-mindy-kalings-not-suitable-for-work-after-one-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824971\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Cancels Mindy Kaling&#8217;s &#8216;Not Suitable for Work&#8217; After One Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hulu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hulu\" data-tag=\"hulu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu<\/a> will not be moving forward on a second season of its recent comedy \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/not-suitable-for-work\/\" id=\"auto-tag_not-suitable-for-work\" data-tag=\"not-suitable-for-work\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Not Suitable for Work<\/a>,\u201d from creator <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/mindy-kaling\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mindy-kaling\" data-tag=\"mindy-kaling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mindy Kaling<\/a>. The series, which Kaling executive produced with showrunner Charlie Grandy and 3 Arts Entertainment\u2019s Howard Klein, launched in June and ran for nine episodes. Warner Bros. TV, which produces the series, plans to shop it to potential new homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tElla Hunt, Avantika, Will Angus, Jack Martin, Nicholas Duvernay and Jay Ellis star in the series, which per the show\u2019s logline, centers on \u201cwork-obsessed 20-somethings striving for professional success and, if they have time, personal happiness in Manhattan\u2019s most glamorous neighborhood, Murray Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRecurring guest stars on \u201cNot Suitable for Work\u201d include Victor Garber, Greg Germann, Judy Gold, Ego Nwodim, Harry Richardson, Constance Wu, Laura Bell Bundy, May Hong, Bhavesh Patel, Emilia Su\u00e1rez and Michael Benjamin Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe series stars Hunt as AJ, an investment banker from Boston, who moves to New York for a new job and begins living with her best friend, aspiring celebrity stylist Abby (played by Avantika). They live across the hall from male best friends Davis (Will Angus), who is AJ\u2019s co-worker and has a crush on her; nepo-baby\/young journalist Josh (Jack Martin); and aspiring actor\/med school dropout Kel (Nicholas Duvernay).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNot Suitable for Work\u201d was produced under Kaling\u2019s Kaling International label in association with Warner Bros. Television, where both Kaling and Grandy hold overall deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNot Suitable for Work\u201d repped Kaling\u2019s first sole creator credit on a project since \u201cThe Mindy Project,\u201d the comedy that began its life on Fox for three seasons before moving over to Hulu, where it ran for an additional three seasons as one of the streamer\u2019s earliest original hits. After \u201cMindy Project,\u201d Kaling continued a string of successes with Netflix\u2019s \u201cNever Have I Ever,\u201d HBO Max\u2019s \u201cThe Sex Lives of College Girls\u201d and Netflix\u2019s ongoing series \u201cRunning Point,\u201d which has already been renewed for a Season 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn her review of \u201cNot Suitable for Work,\u201d Variety\u2018s Alison Herman <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/reviews\/not-suitable-for-work-review-mindy-kaling-hulu-1236764439\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wasn\u2019t too impressed<\/a>, but she did see some \u201cglimmers of a more biting, memorable take on young people juggling jobs and love in New York City throughout the nine-episode season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hulu will not be moving forward on a second season of its recent comedy \u201cNot Suitable for Work,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,10028,142148,146203],"class_list":["post-824971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-mindy-kaling","tag-not-suitable-for-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}