Missing Persons Unit’ canceled at Fox

Two crime series are finished at Fox.

The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit will not return for additional seasons on the network, Entertainment Weekly has learned.

The Cleaning Lady starred Élodie Yung as Thony De La Rosa, a Cambodian-Filipino surgeon working for a Las Vegas crime family as a cleaner. The series premiered in Sept. 2022 and ultimately ran for four seasons, the last of which aired its final episode on Tuesday.

The show was based on the Argentine series La Chica que Limpia, which itself only ran for one season and also inspired a Mexican remake that also lasted one season. Developed by Miranda Kwok (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, The 100), Fox’s American iteration of the series also starred Adan Canto (who tragically died from cancer after season 2), Oliver Hudson, Martha Millan, and Eva De Dominici, and later added Naveen Andrews, Kate del Castillo, and Santiago Cabrera to the cast. Special guest stars included Lou Diamond Phillips and Lea Salonga.

Kwok discussed the difficulty of making another season of The Cleaning Lady after Canto’s death in an interview with EW. 

“It was a real challenge for us, but more so it was so heartbreaking to lose Adan,” she said. “We had to figure out how to craft a season based on the circumstances that honors Adan as a human being and Arman as a character in the best way possible. We had to pivot a few times this season. We started crafting the season before we knew anything about what was happening and we were planning on digging into Arman’s backstory and his family.”

Kwok continued, “When we were first told that we may not have him [for the full season], we decided we still wanted to tell those stories and we wanted to leave an opening so he could come right back into the story. Unfortunately, when we lost him, we had to adjust.”

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Alert followed two members of the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit as they searched for one missing person in every episode. Scott Caan led the series alongside Dania Ramirez, whose character was killed off at the end of season 2. 

Created by Jamie Foxx and John Eisendrath (The Blacklist, Outlaw), Alert premiered in Jan. 2023 and lasted for three 10-episode seasons. Season 3 premiered its finale on May 27. The series also starred Ryan Broussard, Adeola Role, Alisha-Marie Ahamed, and Graham Verchere.