After a season of lackluster ratings, The CW took a chance last May and renewed Life Unexpected for year two. They hoped that the audience would grow this season but it certainly hasn’t.
Season one of Life Unexpected averaged 2.0 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the network’s target demographic of women 18-34. This season, the show’s lost more than half of the demo audience, averaging just a 0.7 rating with 1.53 million viewers.
As the network’s lowest rated show, CW execs asked for a couple additional scripts but didn’t order them into production. Life Unexpected is the only series on the network that’s been limited to 13 episodes this season.
While The CW has not officially cancelled Life Unexpected yet, it’s impossible to imagine that they’d renew it for season three. The ratings have just gone too low. Series creator Liz Tigelaar thinks so too. She told the TV Addict back in September that she believed that, if they didn’t get an order for a full season, the show was finished.
The season (likely series) finale will air in January. Deadline is reporting that the writers are treating it like the series finale and will wrap up many of the ongoing storylines.
Tigelaar was skeptical about how fulfilling the end could be. In September, she said, “Obviously if you were doing the end of this story, what I feel the fans want are Cate and Baze together, so that would be a natural series end in someway. Unfortunately, that is not going to to happen by episode 13, at least I don’t think in an artful way. So we’re just going to hope for more and if 13 ends up being our last one we will have some closure, it will feel good and the end, but it won’t be the true end.
What do you think? Should The CW have renewed or canceled Life Unexpected last spring? Why have so many viewers stopped watching? How would you like the series to end?
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I would love for a season three of life unexpected i fell in love with this show soon as I started to watch it it reminds me a lot of how foster home can be like i can say i was a lucky foster kid but not all these foster kids out their are lucky to be put with good family’s so please make a third season with all of the same people.
I would really like for a season 3 off life unexpected I really love the show and I have not had a show that I have loved so much that I have wanted another season but this one has remide me a lot abut how foster kids actually are raised and how lucky some of them can be so if you all could make a season three that would be awesome.
Can You guys Please bring Life Unexpected Back please
Great show that shouldn’t have been cancelled. I’m currently watching old episodes on netflix and hate that it’s about to end. I wonder if the executives took into consideration that the main viewers might have had to work during the time of the show. Either way, it still shouldn’t have been cancelled nor should have reign.
Dont cancel if u cancel u would lose alot of viewers and the rates go down bc yall take to long to make another season and its getting soo good i need to know what going to happen i need some juicey secrets and truths