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 this show!! i am legit addicted… i will probably cry if it happens. I can connect so easily to all of the characters, and the actors really act, its not so fakey fake seeming. please, i am begging. :'(
PLZZZZZZZZZZ do not cancel this show!!!! I soooo look forward to watching this show. There is nothing on television that is worth watching, but Life Unexpected, everything else I watch besides Grey’s Anatomy is either on HBO or Showtime, please do not cancel if anything cancel that boring One Tree Hill!!
I hate that they never give shows a chance. I know that it is a money business but they always get us hooked and then drop the good shows. I love this show.
I feel like it is Freaks and Geeks all over again. Get you hooked and you never know how it would have ended.
Please don’t cancel this show! It’s actually a show I really look forward to watching week after week. My teenage daughter’s are also really into it. You’ve got some great characters and exciting storylines. Don’t cancel!
PLEASE DONT CANCEL THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOOOOOVE IT!! I agree with everyone here.. I just love it, and i dont understand why they have such low ratings!!! …and the Hellcats.. what can I say?! Its not that good AT ALL!!! Cancel this in stead!!!
is there a petition I could write on somewhere?
I hate that this show is ending, this was really one of the only shows that I watch on tv and it sucks that it has to come to an abrupt end. I don’t really understand why it had such low ratings, every episode has a good story line and all the characters are interesting. I really hoped there would have been a petition going around to save the show or to at least have another network pick up the show, that would have been great. The CW almost always has really bad shows on their network but this wasn’t… Read more »
don’t end the show cw…please
you end dis show imma ******* sue CW and will stop watching that channel and imma get all my buds an fam mems to stop watching that channel too , ******* pissed :@ hope you guys lose ur bussiness
THIS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER, I DONT WANT TO SEE IT END, WE ALL DONT ! !! Give the show a thrid try comee onn peoplee!
Please CW, don’t cancel this show!!! I don’t understand why it’s getting such low ratings. I really feel that it’s one of the better shows on T.V. right now, reminiscent of ‘Party of Five’ . I think they just need to give it more time and find a way to expose more people to it. I love the characters and their relationships. Come on, CW, don’t break my heart! BTW, I am 34/F, In Your prized demographic.
I love this show- so sad it’s being canceled 🙁
I love this show! I hope they don’t cancel!
I absolutely love this show. And the series creator is right, it won’t feel like the proper end if it doesn’t finish with Cate and Baze together and it just can’t be done by episode 13. I’m horrified. All the sucky shows like 90210 where none of the characters can actually act get to keep going for like 5 seasons but real shows like these ones that feel so much like the good stuff that used to be on tv back when i was younger get thrown out without a thought. Or another great example of publisized bullsh*t being shoved… Read more »
I Love this show! Please, don’t cancel. If CW cancel ” Life
Unexpected,” I want watch another show on the CW. I remember
watching ” My So-Called Life,” when I was in middle school and I
love that show as well but, it was cancel to. I still remember how
sad I was and I’m getting that same feeling. This World
Sucks!!!
preach preacha!!!!!
DON’T CANCEL, DON’T CANCEL THIS IS THE BEST SHOW ON T.V. !!!!! I LOVE ALL OF THE CHARECTERS AND I WILL NOT WATCH THE CW IF THEY CANEL THIS SHOW.