Fox still has four scripted shows it has yet to cancel or renew for the 2025-2026 season, one of them beingThe Cleaning Lady. It’s joined by Alert: Missing Persons Unit, anthology series Accused, and animated seriesThe Great North as the four outstanding shows on Fox’s roster for the upcoming TV season. AndThe Cleaning Lady Season 4 finale, on Tuesday, June 3, has now concluded without any word on the show’s future. While it was a two-hour finale event, the plot didn’t feel like the show was preparing for it to be a potential series finale.
The Fox upfront was already held on May 12 in New York City, bringing with it the Fox fall 2025 schedule. The reason whyThe Cleaning Lady wasn’t included in the network’s upfront updates is no cause for concern. Its decreased ratings and viewership are what spell trouble for the Élodie Yung-led crime thriller.
Here’s everything we know about the potential of The Cleaning Lady Season 5 following that open-ended Season 4 finale.
How did The Cleaning LadySeason 4 end?
Thony (Yung) faced her most grueling challenges yet in the two-hour finale on June 3, which started with Thony in prison after her fake husband whom she has real feelings for, Jorge (Santiago Cabrera), framed her for the murder of Rex Blackley. Thankfully, she ended the finale out of prison and the charges against her were dropped, but her time in prison with nemesis Ramona (Kate del Castillo) nearly killed her.
Thony provided medical attention to her fellow inmates in the finale between beatings from Ramona’s crew. Both Thony and Ramona got out of the slammer in a snaky prison break, but they crossed paths again when Ramona attempted to kill Thony by burying her alive. Her plan was to kill Thony, and then kidnap Thony’s son, Luca, and Jorge’s daughter/Ramona’s niece, Violeta, and raise them as her own. A timely arrival from Fiona (Martha Millan) gave Thony the chance to fight back. She was going to kill Ramona right then and there, but she couldn’t bring herself to murder the woman. So Thony buried Ramona alive instead, but Ramona survived.
Jorge was ousted as Sin Cara’s leader by Feng (Alain Uy), but he’s determined to make a comeback. Jorge was leaving to regroup and was bringing Violeta with him, and he wanted Thony and Luca to join. But Thony committed herself to the cartel life and used information Jorge provided as an advantage with Feng. Through the sharing of this damning info about the District Attorney, Joel Herman (Robert Cicchini), Thony negotiated herself a place as a cartel associate. But she’s playing both sides again. She plans to be a mole for Joel by reporting her key findings about Sin Cara now that she’s more deeply involved in it —very deeply.
The finale ended with Thony declaring her new plan to Fiona. “They all want to control me. But this puts me back in control,” she said. “I’ll let those men think that they own me, but I don’t want to be a cartel associate. I don’t want to be an informer. I want to take over Sin Cara.”
Taking over the cartel could beThe Cleaning Lady‘s intentions for Season 5, should it come to pass.
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HasThe Cleaning Lady been renewed for Season 5?
The Cleaning Lady Season 4 underwent a massive story overhaul between Seasons 3 and 4 following the tragic death of leading man Adan Canto, who died of cancer in January 2024. As of the time of publication,The Cleaning Lady has not yet been renewed for Season 5.
Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network, told press ahead of the May 12 upfront that its renewal announcements will come in waves. Shows that weren’t renewed in time for the upfront aren’t necessarily canceled (The Cleaning Lady andAlert: MPUare also midseason premieres for the network, so there’s still time).
“The Cleaning Lady, Alert, andThe Great North are still in the middle of their runs,” Thorn said on a call to press. “We love the teams and those shows. I think there’ll be more to come after they finish their current seasons. As you know, we order series all year round; the upfronts for us is one cycle of ordering. And there will definitely be more sometime, probably later this summer.”
The Cleaning Lady renewals haven’t been quick in the past; it’s usually weeks or months after the finales air that the show’s renewal announcement is made. However, Deadline does note that the renewal prospects for The Cleaning Lady don’t look good.
The Cleaning Lady‘s first two seasons had strong ratings and viewership, but there was a considerable dip in Season 3. After having over 1 million viewers per episode throughout Season 3, the two-part Season 3 finale drew in only 0.85 million viewers in May 2024, according to ratings-watcher TV Series Finale. The Season 4 premiere had an uptick, with 1.295 million viewers tuning in. Every episode except Episode 4 has stayed over the 1-million mark since then, but none have surpassed the Season 3 premiere viewership.
There was a small increase in viewers in Episodes 5 and 6, but weekly decreases for Episodes 7 and 8 (the latter of which aired on May 13). Episode 7 had 1.099 million viewers followed by an even 1 million in Episode 8. Should the numbers continue to decrease in the final four episodes of the season, its renewal chances could be at serious risk.
Given that it has been a steady performer for Fox in the past and has shown signs of improved viewership in the fourth season, it’s possible that Fox could give the series a fifth and final season.