It turns out that there won’t be a sixth season of the Switched at Birth TV show on Freeform. Series creator and executive producer Lizzy Weiss has confirmed that season five will be the end. She wrote, “This season of #SwitchedatBirth will be our final one. We are ending the show after an amazing 103 episodes with pride, love, and gratitude.”
Switched at Birth follows the lives of two teenage girls after it’s discovered that they ended up with the others’ families as babies at the hospital. The cast includes Vanessa Marano, Katie Leclerc, Lea Thompson, Constance Marie, Sean Berdy, D.W. Moffett, Lucas Grabeel, and Giles Marini.
The series debuted in June 2011, won a Peabody Award in 2013, and features several deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars. The fourth season finished airing in October 2015 was down by 28% in both the 18-49 demographic and total viewership. The fifth and final season has yet to be scheduled and will apparently have just 10 episodes (93 installments have aired over the previous four seasons).
What do you think? Are you a fan of this series? Do you think the final season of Switched at Birth should have been longer? Would you have watched a sixth season?
This is the first show that I actually enjoyed coming home from work and hurrying up to get things done and sit down and enjoy watching. And now in the middle of the series with the family going thru all the changes and challenges of life they are going to end it like that.. To much more that could / can happen with the family in other seasons . Don’t leave all of us Switched At Birth fans hanging with the question of I wonder what could of happened.. Bring this show back… PLEASE.
I am 58 my granddaughter is 11 and we just finished the season and are so sad they’re is no more…please bring back a season 6
I can’t believe there’s no season 6 I’m so disappointed I really love this show so bad. please keep going with the show. I really want to know what’s going on. Please.
EXACTLY I BINGE WATCH IT ALL THE TIME. I LOVE ALL 5 SEASONS. I CRIED WHEN THE CHARACTER ANGELO DIED IN THE HOSPITAL. THAT PART GETS TO ME EVERYTIME. MY MOM PASSED AWAY SIMILIAR LIKE THAT AND IT BRINGS BACK MEMORIES.
I loved this series. I enjoyed how the characters evolved through the years with all their ups & downs. I hate to see it end but appreciate that they were able to tie everyone together in the finale.
I loved the show, but I honestly wish they could’ve had a wider variety of deaf/hearing impaired students. Some how they never managed to feature a single deaf person who’s hearing loss came from a physical deformity. A 6th season could’ve given them a chance to explore that.
Yes I love this show u didn’t tell the whole story and there has to be more
I’m 59 years old and I loved the show and hated to see it end. I’ve been watching all 5 seasons on Netflix over the last few months. I had to tell my 29 year old daughter about it after I watched just 3 episodes. She fell in love with it as well.