Is Awkward returning for another season? Executive producers Chris Alberghini and Mike Chessler told TVLine the decision is up to MTV.
Awkward is currently nearing the end of its fifth season. The comedy stars Ashley Rickards, Beau Mirchoff, Nikki DeLoach, Jillian Rose Reed, and Brett Davern.
Earlier, it was announced that season five would be the series’ last. However, Alberghini says the cast and crew are interested in a sixth season:
We as the showrunners certainly believe there are plenty more stories left to tell, and we’re excited about the potential to do so. But we don’t control the fate of the show. It’s just a matter of MTV deciding what fits into their schedule next year and how many shows they’re going to have. We’re certainly interested, and most of the cast is interested.”
Chessler said the fifth season finale does act like a series finale just in case:
We always thought it should feel like the ending of a chapter. We really wanted this finale to have pivotal moments for all of the characters, most importantly for Matty and Jenna, since that’s the central relationship of the show. It does feel complete in its own way.”
And what would a sixth season look like? Chessler noted it would be “different”:
It would be very different. We’d jump ahead in time again, and there have been conversations about having it in a different city with a different feel. The reason I said this episode is the close of one chapter is because, if there were to be another chapter, it would be a very different phase of [the characters’ lives]. We’d really turn the show on its ear.”
The two-part season (and possibly series) finale of Awkward airs tonight, May 24th, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
What do you think? Do you watch Awkward? Do you want a sixth season?
Please bring Awkward and Faking It back!!! Those are great shows! I watched them faithfully every week! MTV always gettin rid of the good shows.. SMH
I watched Awkward and as I watched the first episode I knew that it was gonna be good. Now that I have finished season 5, I am now and hopefully looking forward for a new season 6. I ❤️❤️❤️❤️Awkward
I have watched everything that Ashley Rickards has been in from One Tree Hill to The Outskirts now to Awkward and I think she is the best when she is with Beau Mirchoff and I would love to see what happens with them in a 6th season. I love the drama with Molly Tarlov and Ashley. Thanks to MTV, Jillian Rose Reed helped me have my own BFGFBFF (the DD is implied) Awkward helped me figure out so much in my life and if I could see just one more season of Awkward then I would know more about life… Read more »
Okay so I really love this show it’s really a good show and I’ve made sure to watch every season every episode so please please please continue on with a season 6☹️
I love Awkward plz don’t cancel it we want a season 6
I started catching up on this show watching on Hulu. Love it and want to see Jenna and Maddy end up getting pregnant and married like her parents. There needs to be a season six!!!!!!
I love this show, please make more. It can end like this, I want to see what happens with Jenna and Matty.
Yes please bring the show back for one last BAng. What can we do? to make this happened?
please have award return best show ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please bring Awkward back! Show is so great and would hate to have it end with these cliffhangers!!!
I love awkward!!!! Please make a season 6!!! I love how the show is growing with me!
Awkward is the only thing I watch on MTV, continue on with the greatness.
If Awkward returns, then Faking It should, too.
Awkward really is a great show! I may be older now but I feel as if the show has grown and matured as I have. I would love (at least) one more season to see the characters develop even further and to gain some closure in the story line between Matty and Jenna and the rest of the characters as well.
I stopped watching awkward for awhile, but the very first episode i watched made me fall back in love with the show. I’m hooked again, i just watched the season finale, and wow awkward has to come back for at least one more season. If this show ends without truly ending the story then its going to disappoint a lot of fans, so many shows end without telling the complete story, and its truly devastating for it to end with matty finally telling Jenna how he feels. I feel like one more season with a time jumo would be tbe… Read more »