It’s official: E!’s “Fashion Police” has been put on an extended hiatus.

In light of the backlash following Giuliana Rancic’s insensitive comments about Zendaya’s dreadlocks at the Academy Awards and the subsequent exodus of Kelly Osbourne and Kathy Griffin, the network’s executives decided that moving forward with just Rancic and Brad Goreski was not the best course of action.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the three remaining episodes that were scheduled to be shot this spring have been scrapped, allowing the show to reboot with a new cast. NBCUniversal Lifestyle Networks Group president Frances Berwick hopes to bring the show back in the fall with six or seven episodes that will be linked to major events like the Emmys.

“With the benefit of hindsight, we definitely brought it back too soon,” said Berwick, who along with the show’s executive producer Melissa Rivers, considered giving the show the axe. “There was a lot of noise and drama that are really not helpful or additive to the creative process, but there’s a real love for this show. Given the focus on this, the ratings should really be the size of 'The Walking Dead.'”

That noise obviously included Griffin’s comments that she felt like she was being forced to “say bad things” about pictures of beautiful women in perfect dresses. Berwick, who had previously worked with Griffin at Bravo, took issue with the criticism.

“The show is about comedy and fashion and those are very light, frothy, fun subjects,” said Berwick. “You want to be evolving with the times, and we are really taking the mani-cam question very seriously. If people don’t want to do it, they shouldn’t be forced to do it. There’s a lot that’s frivolous about the whole Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe parade, and then at the heart of it, there’s some great, creative work. E! is not a network that takes itself seriously. To the extent that this has all gotten very intense and serious — it’s meant to be fun. When it stops being fun or if we think that we’re offending or crossing a line, absolutely, that’s the time to re-evaluate and that’s what we’re doing, frankly, with things like the mani cam.”

Let's just hope that when the show makes its way back to the air, it will feature the fashion knowledge, humor and good-natured tone of its original host, the late, great Joan Rivers.