TV Land has decided to end their signature original sitcom Hot in Cleveland. The current sixth season will be the end for the comedy.
Hot in Cleveland continues to follow the lives of three middle-age ladies from Los Angeles — writer Melanie Moretti (Valerie Bertinelli), beautician Joy Scoggs (Jane Leeves), and actress Victoria Chase (Wendie Malick). When their flight to Paris makes an emergency landing in Cleveland, Ohio, they discover a community that’s less shallow and youth-obsessed. They move there and lease a home with a sassy caretaker, Elka Ostrovsky (Betty White).
The ratings for Hot in Cleveland have come way down over the years. The first season averaged more than three million viewers each week. The fifth season drew about 950,000 viewers and the first few episodes of the current sixth season have averaged 710,000.
Of the decision, TV Land president Larry W. Jones said, “It’s been an honor to work with Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and the incomparable Betty White as well as our executive producers Suzanne Martin, Todd Milliner, Sean Hayes and the rest of our exceptional writers, production team and crew. The passion and talent they brought to the set each and every week over the past five years has put TV Land on the map as a network dedicated to quality original programming. We will continue to celebrate the show and are looking forward to a fantastic series finale.”
On the positive side, there will be 128 episodes by the end, plenty of episodes to keep Hot in Cleveland airing in syndication for years to come.
What do you think? Are you sorry that there won’t be a seventh season of Hot in Cleveland or, is it ending at a good time?
I just started watching this show about 2 months ago and I LOVE IT! It’s hilarious! I’m so sad TV Land cancelled it after the 6th season!
Terrible show I watched like five times and never laughed once. Good riddance.
I love this show! Amazing writing, acting, producing and directing. I have watched every episode multiple times except for Season six which I’ve only seen once so far. I will really miss it! I have also bought every episode on Amazon except Season 6 which isn’t available for purchase to stream on Amazon yet. This show was a true original. I LOVE the honesty about being a middle aged single woman, a mom, dating, relationships, all of it! I also love and adore how Betty White challenges our stereotype of older women. When I am sad or lonely Hot In… Read more »
Betty White used to be a lady, and was recognized for it. The Golden Girls killed that, and it only got worse with the character of Elka on this show. I hope she isn’t like this off-screen now, because that would prove that she can act in any genre she’s placed in. But, she can do so much better than this.
I thought Bertinelli, White, and Malick were all super. Leeves was woefully miscast as Joy. She had little chemistry with anyone else. All she really did is parade around in mini’s. I felt like they cast Leeves, so the men would have something to look at while their wives watched the show. Sorry, just keeping it real. No doubt she’s great in person. But not as Joy. Georgia Engel’s visits were brilliant. She should have been a regular. Her scenes with Betty were so perfect.
Gutted what a fantastic show why do the tv networks always get rid of fab shows that work and keep the bad ones on getting Fed up now following a series then only to find it gets cancelled !!