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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Please dont cancel the show it just needs time
Please, Please, Please do not end this show!! I love this show & would be so disappointed to see it come to an end!
Im 35 years old and this is a great show for adults who may be going through some of the same issues at home with their relationships or teenagers who need someone to relate to. They need to give us more time to connect with the characters in the show with that look at the tuesday night line up it is hard to compete with DWTS and NCIS. Plus the thing about the CW is that most of their shows dont make it long as soon as you get into them they take them off the air like Everwood loved… Read more »
Please do not delete this series….. I love it me and my aunt and mother get together every time it is on. It’s a great show.. We would be disappointed if it ended
I love this show and look forward to watching it every week – please keep it going and don’t cancel!!!
This is my fave show!!!! Its soo good! Dont CANCEL!
Life Unexpected is the best show I’ve seen in a long time! I really hope there is a season 3 of the show! I can’t stand how people can watch hellcats and not watch life unexpected, which is by far the best show of the CW. I’m from Brazil and i watch life unexpected every week! please DON’T CANCEL THEIN AMAZING TV SHOW!
Life Unexpected is the best TV show ever! I really don’t know how people can watch shows like Hellcats and not watch Life Unexpected! I’m from Brasil and I watch it every week! I really hope there is a season 3! DON’T CANCEL!
PLEASE KEEP THE SHOW GOING IT’S GREAT YOU WILL PICK UP VIEWERS JUST GIVE IT TIME……THIS IS THE ONLY SHOW I WATCH ON THE CW.
The only two shows worth watching on The CW is One Tree Hill, and Life Unexpected! I don’t understand how Hellcats and other obnoxious series can stay on, yet something relateable to REAL life gets the “X”? PLEASE DON’T CANCEL SERIES! The 1.53 million viewers will be sooooo dissapointed, doesn’t that say anything?
You really cannot cancel this show, it is so good. I love it!! i swear i can’t wait to see more of it and if it gets cancelled some other network needs to pick it up. CW will be making a big mistake if they cancel. LUX!!!!!!!!!
I am 19 years old, male, and even straight. I love the show. Dunno why, but I just, enjoy the heck out of it. I would prefer them not to cancel it.
Please don’t end this show! It is one of my favorite shows along with the Good Wife on another channel. It is so much better than any of the other CW shows. I myself was adopted and find this show so interesting. The acting is so good, but I feel there just isn’t enough people that have heard of it, because of the shows that it was up against on the other channels. Change the time of it and give it another chance! I have told a lot of people how good it is and I believe they are now… Read more »
I have really connected with this show in so many ways. There are so many different relationships and conflicts and resolutions that it is so easy to relate to the characters. In just the two short seasons we have watched all the characters grow and change so much. I cant imagine ending the show when they still have so much left to this journey. PLEASE DON”T CANCEL!!!!
this show cannot cancel. it is my favorite show and i cant imagine it not being shown for another season. there are so many things going on and one last episode cant cover them all! DONT CANCEL!