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 am getting so tired of shows that are “family” tv,being cancelled.Life is show I can watch. With my daughters and enjoy.We are so upset that we are losing another great family show.Networks need to give these shows a chance!!!
I like lu maybe the cw should move it to fridays at 9. because then it won’t be facing tough competion and then the ratings will pick back up.
I think they should continue with the show. It is also, one of my favorites on TV and I trully think that it has a chance of the rates improving. I personally would not cancel it: it would just be stupid of the CW network. It seems to be one of my faves just like The Vampire Diaries, so I say it should continue.
Wow I just finished watching the first season and I love it…I was a little bit slow on figuring out that this show is actually good. Maybe you guys should give it a little more time. I didn’t know this show even existed until the beginning of this week. There are just so many shows that are on these days it’s hard to keep up. This show is now one of my favorites so help us out by letting us watch episodes we missed online. I hate missing episodes of shows and watching the next one it makes me feel… Read more »
I absolutely adore this show. It seems to keep getting better and better and it would be a shame for it to be canceled before it hit it’s potential! I think it’s very realistic and connects with so many people of all different ages! Keep it going!!!! I love it!!!!!!
finally a really good show , and they want to cancel it!!
There are so many shows out there with no meaning….just really stupid shows. They are all the same cop shows, lawyer show and spy shows. I mean really keep this one. CBS already cancelled medium on me lets keep life unexpected for gods sake. I swear sometimes I wish TV was never invented……..sucks
i love love this show!!! I dont think it should cancel!!!
This season is awesome…especially the last few episodes! What can we do to keep it on the air???
this show should stay on,gossip girl is superficial garbage,whoever cancels Lux should be ashamed
they really can’t cancel the show. i love it. i always look forward to this show every week. they should give it another chance. It isn’t going to be a real closure. It’s going to be so stupid if we just have to be happy with the end they gave is, because they hadn’t enough time to make a proper end.
please give the show another chance.
I think Life Unexpected is CRAZY-GOOD and it should continue. I personally watch every single episdoe and have no idea why the ratings have gone so low! I love it! It’s such an exciting and thrilling show, that you never know what happens next. The shows get better and better! Please dont end Life Unexpected. I would be very upset you did. It is my #1 favorite show! Keep on going! Thanks!
Plus not really giving much time for Cate and Ryan to have a little happiness before they developed marital issues may have also been a bad move in just the second season. With all respect to the writers, if they hadn’t tacked the hot button issue of the relationship between Lux and the teacher, and had Cate and Ryan happy for the first half of the season, (basically been a little more cautious in their decisions for the content of the episodes) they might have made it a little longer, and been able to get away with more in the… Read more »
I agree with Whitney, I, as a fan of this show would love to see Lux have a relationship with Sam. I think the reason the ratings dropped is because the viewers couldn’t stomach the teacher/high schooler love interest storyline this season, even though I’m confident the writers wouldn’t have had Lux or the teacher get into too physical a relationship, and would have probably ended that love interest given a little more time. Even though I am confident the relationship wouldn’t have gotten serious, it was still hard to watch, considering the relationship no matter how platonic the writers… Read more »
Don’t cancel this show. Networks cancel to many shows without giving it a chance. This show is one of my favorites as well as many of my friends. There is no way they can conclude most of the story lines and that’s going to make people like me very upset. Please give this show another chance.
I absolutely love this show. There are a lot of other people who do as well. I think that there should be another season and Lux should get with Sam. I think they would make a cute couple. Please keep the show going.