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?
Loved Cedar Cove! I watched it faithfully & in reruns as well! We need a movie at least to tell us what happened to these wonderful characters!!
This is a delightful show that provides a visit to Cedar Cove, a place to visit far away from the realities of today. It was such a disappointment to discover this morning that the show was not available!!
Please provide us a fourth and final season of Cedar Cove or don’t show the first 3 seasons again and again, leaves us with too many questions at the end.
I would really like to see some kind of wrap-up to the story lines in this series! It is so frustrating to have put in the time, enjoying this series, just to have it end abruptly, with no answers. Bring back Cedar Cove for another season, or at least as a movie, and let us see what happens to these beloved characters!
I recently started watching Cedar Cove on HMM HD and it became one of my favorite shows so you can imagine my disappointment when I signed in at 9 am today on HMM HD and found it had been discontinued without any warning and I could only find old reruns at 3 pm. Will there never be any more current seasons available for our viewing?
Just watched the last Cedar Cove and loved it but hated it when I found out that was it. No more….really!!! You owe it to your viewers to add this back to the line up and please complete it in a much better manner. Think of the last season 1.67 million viewers we do deserve better than that ending.
Oh my goodness my whole family is heart sick there will not be a season four!
I just got involved in watching Cedar Cove and was delighted to view something new (to me)during this pandemic. So disappointed to learn that it ended abruptly at season #3 and there is no season #4. I think that Hallmark owed it to their dedicated viewers to wrap up all the unanswered questions in a 2 hour movie….such as having Olivia end up with Paul and Jack end up with Alex and Justine run off with Luke to start a new life…..Since I feel that I was hoodwinked into investing time into a series that has no ending, I am… Read more »
I recently viewed the show Cedar Cove from season 1 through season 3 and I loved it. I love the fact that Canadian TV is good for families. They don’t show any risque scenes and they keep to the moral values that all Parents try to instill in their children. I would love for you to consider bringing Cedar Cove back for season 4 for all of us or tired of all the immoral shows that have taken over television in the US and let us enjoy the clean shows that Canadian TV has to offer.
Thank you
I only began watching Hallmark Channel in 2020 during the pandemic. I needed to watch something uplifting. I’ve enjoyed the Christmas movies, mysteries and now hooked on Cedar Cove. The last showing was of grace’s wedding. Now you got me hanging. Please continue with Cedar Cove. It is very entertaining. Always a cliffhanger at the end of each episode.
I am called the Hallmark Queen by friends and family but I have always only been a movie buff. I even watch Christmas movies all year round. However you started airing Cedar Cove early on weekday mornings with working graveyard shifts as a nurse I was able to watch it. Watching the first episode I was totally hooked. All of the actors I have loved in so many movies for years. Since then I subscribed to Hallmark Movies Now so I could watch all three seasons and have played them more then once. Now that I love this series I… Read more »
You really get it! I am so frustrated with Hallmark Channel! Fair warning would have been nice!
Love cedar Cove I’m watching reruns again now and now they’ve taken that off please put it back on my favorite show so tired of diagnosis murder!!!
Please,please,please finish Cedar Cove!! I was shocked to turn channel in this morning and NO CEDAR COVE!! I watch Hallmarks two shows every day when I am not at work.
PLEASE finish Cedar Cove!!
I hope they bring Cedar Cove back. It was a wonderful, heartfelt series.
I just discovered this series this month. Looked forward to it every morning and Now it’s GONE. Please return with the season 4 or however many season you have and Make more
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