Fans won’t be seeing what happens to Olivia Lockhart in a fourth season of Cedar Cove. Hallmark Channel has cancelled their first scripted TV show after three seasons and 36 episodes.
Cedar Cove revolves around Olive (Andie MacDowell), a single mother from a small seaside community who’s also a municipal court judge. Olivia does her best to balance her career with family and finding love — all the while doing her best to care for the township she calls home. The rest of the cast includes Dylan Neal, Teryl Rothery, Sarah Smyth, Colin Ferguson, Bruce Boxleitner, Barbara Niven, Brennan Elliot, Corey Sevier, Sebastian Spence, Tom Stevens, Jesse Hutch, Jesse Moss, Emily Tennant, and Timothy Webber.
Hallmark’s first scripted TV series debuted in July 2013 to 2.62 million viewers. Though the TV show lasted three seasons, the ratings dropped each year. The first season of Cedar Cove averaged about two million viewers. The second season averaged 1.87 million and the third season averaged 1.67 million.
The cable channel announced the cancellation on their Facebook page. Here’s the statement:
Cedar Cove was the first series launched on Hallmark Channel, and we are incredibly proud of the exquisitely beautiful three season arc it delivered. It was an honor to bring to life the kindness, consideration and courage of this story that Debbie Macomber envisioned. Our heartfelt thanks go out to the extraordinary cast, writers, artists and designers — especially Andie MacDowell, executive producer and show runner Sue Tenney, and of course, Debbie Macomber. It is a privilege to continue a creative working relationship with the incredible talents associated with this series — both in front of and behind the camera – for upcoming projects on Hallmark Channel USA and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
That was followed up by:
While Cedar Cove won’t be returning for Season 4, our beloved #CedarCove cast are all still part of the family! You’ll see Andie MacDowell produce & star in “The Beach House” based on the novel by Mary Alice Monroe. “Debbie Macomber’s Dashing Through the Snow” premieres 12/12 on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. You’ll see Barbara Niven star with Alison Sweeney in the next installment of #MurderSheBaked: A Plum Pudding Mystery” premiering 11/22 also on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. And you’ll see Brennan Elliott star with Mariah Carey & Lacey Chabert in the premiere of #AChristmasMelody Dec 19th on Hallmark Channel USA!
The last episode of Cedar Cove aired on September 26th and ended with lots of unanswered questions.
What do you think? Do you like the Cedar Cove TV show? Do you think that it should have been cancelled or renewed for a fourth season? Would you like to see the characters return someday?
Love cedar cove, hope ur planning on continuing the episode in the future. Gilmore girls have notified media of restarting episodes. Please consider….
Wow! So dissatisfied with this. Unbelievable
So why would you not ay least do one final episode to give closure
One of the best shows on your channel and you cancelled it??????
It still had 1.6 million rating.
Done with hallmark
So disappointing to see the show is cancelled!! We need more TV like this. Please bring it back!!
This is very disappointing to hear about Cedar Cove – I don’t think it will make Hallmark too popular with the fans – you could at least give a quick closure to the series – I can assure you I won’t watch another one – not good business
Please bring it back for a fourth season, or at the very least give us a tv movie to resolve the cliffhangers! Please!
I just learned that it was canceled – very sad. I truly hope you bring it back. Too many open stories!!!
Oh man, this is SO disappointing to cancel with a cliff hanger like this! I kept trying to figure out why the show wasn’t coming on any more so I did this search today! I figured it was cancelled or maybe the scripts were delayed! This is very sad!
I hope it comes back…I looked forward to each episode.
I have been looking for Cedar Cove to come back and am very disappointed that it isn’t. If you can’t do a whole series how about winding it up. Perhaps there were a few turns too many but you could at least come up with some kind of ending for all the fans!
Cedar was an excellent and should be renewed. Maybe try not dragging some of the issued out so much. People become impatient but the show had a lot of good twist and turns. Just make them go a little faster.
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Please bring it back. At least for one more season so we can have closure.
Please bring it back for one more season so there will be some closer on what happens.
No I can’t believe you canceled the show! I loved it he show!! I’m certain you can cancel another show in it’s place! Come on Hallmark your better than that.
Yes, bring cedar cove back!
Please bring it back!! It was my favorite show and many of my friends’ favorite as well. I think it was too long between seasons and the seasons were too short. BRING IT BACK!!
Bring it back…..loved the show. Kept waiting for it to come back on.
Bring it back!!!!! I loved this show! It is so hard to find something on tv that is wholesome and not violent. I know the ratings dropped but that’s because people are into more comic based shows right now, but that will fade also. As a millennial, I love this show!