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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Loveeeed this show. Different concept. Great story lines.
They always cancel the good shows. Like lipstick jungle. Privledged. Now life unexpected. Suuuuccch a bummer.
Keep this show on!!!!!
plz plz plz dont cancel this show i love it to death i would be so sad to see it gone plz let there be a season 3 ..i love this show i think you should put it on on weds or fridays
I’m so mad mad mad mad! This was a great show!
Super bummed! I love this show
My daughter and I both love this show. It’s a shame when a network steps outside of the box a little and then decides to draw back. It was a refreshing view of unconventional “tv” family life. Maybe the show could come back and clean up the ending by making it as if Cate had passed out from the stress of everything and what happened in the last few minutes of the show be a dream sequence.
Such a great show. Needed time to catch on. Was getting better and better. SO sad to watch the (quite obvious) Series Finale tonight. 🙁 Was the show I most looked forward to each week. Bummed.
I fell in love with this show from the first episode. Even my husband, who is “so not into nighttime dramas” eagerly waited for the next episode … and we never missed a single one! We waited and waited for the break to end and finally we were so excited to see the new episodes tonight only to find out that these were it. No more Life Unexpected?!? It’s all soooo sad!!!!! Please bring it back!
I love this show, it has a little bit of everything.. its just wrong to take it away they didnt even give it a chance then they changed the day they used to give it on that confuses people. that sucks
I love the show!!!!! I hope it doesnt get cancel because whats the point of starting something and going to finish it like the way it did. So i hope you guys reconsider it please!!!!
Thank you
It was a shocker to me to hear that this was the end. I didn’t even know until I say the, “two years later” on the episode. There are still so many un answered questions, and I honestly don’t know why it was not getting the ratings. It was such a good show, and still is. I LOVE this show, and if it does come back even on a different network, there is so much to back track on, and answer. It’s hard to believe that two years have gon by, and it’s something that just didn’t fit in with… Read more »
PLEASE don’t cancel!!!!! We love this show too much!
i love this show why do they have to cut it short and jump ahead! i wanna know how they ended up there! i think they should make a third season it could def. be carried on!!! PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!
NOOOOOO i love this show more than my own life…seriously it shouldn’t never ended tat way. they should have shown what was going to happen in those three years on season 3. But please do not and i strongly repeat DO NOT canceled it
This was definitely one of my favorite shows and I’m so upset that it is leaving. If it does come back I’d like to know how everyone did get together. The end was shocking, but a happy ending. Definitely not what I expected. I really hope to see a season three.