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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DON’T CANCEL LIFE UNEXPECTED! I can get to see it here in Venezuela, and I swear i’ve been so into it since episode one.. AMAZINGLY! IT CANNNNN’T BE OVER! NO WAY! CW has got to see it is one of the most amazing series ever, even if only a few can see how wonderful it is, because the rest don’t care about the beauty of life and its tragical moments. This is what Life Unexpected is about. Don’t cancel.. 🙁 please. I beg you, from Venezuela.
WRITE CW and mail it. I did this and if more people write directly to them they may pay attension.
Just to add to everyone else here, PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL “LIFE UNEXPECTED”. It is witty, funny, thought provoking and gives much needed messages to our young people. It is a great family show.
They can’t cancel this show. I love it so much and look fwd to Tuesday nights just because of this show. There is no other show out there like this. It has great chemistry with all of the actors/characters and I would just be sooooo upset if they cancelled it.
I love love love this show. Everytime I get hooked on something that I feel is worth watching its over. This is the only CW show I watch and I truly enjoy spending an hour a week watching it. I’ll even sit thru commercials to watch it in real time. If this gets dropped I think I am going to resign myself to watching stuff on DVD because I keep getting invested and then the shows end. At least if its on DVD I’ll know how long I have to enjoy it. Here’s hoping its around for another season. PS… Read more »
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL!!!! I absolutely LOVE Life Unexpected and have tried to catch all of my friends onto it!! I’ve been into this show since episode 1 and I would be SO SAD to see it end!!! I agree that it NEVER has gotten as much publicity and advertising as Gossip Girl or 90210 but I think the show deserves it and is just as good as those!!! If it must end, please as least have Cate and Ryan (I HATE Ryan) be over and Baze be a slight possibility someday… And please have Lux end up with Bug!! I… Read more »
Please do not cancel life unexpected! Not only is the show a complete original in the story line but i have never seen actors come together with so much chemistry and be so perfectly casted. It will truly be a shame to let it die.
Ok, it’s official! When we think keeping shows like a very bad remake of 90210 is worth keeping over a show that not only is good, but too touches on alot of real life experiences. The horrible pain one must feel to have to decide to give one’s child away, and then also to have that child enter ur life later, also all the teenage drama. This show has it all. Canceling would be a disgrace. However we have all seen just how much those who are in charge do not care what the public thinks. Ratings what are they?… Read more »
Please do not cancel this show. I really like it, and I got my roommates to like it too. I love the cast, I love the style, and I just love the show. its good. its different. Keep it.
We love this show, look forward to it every week and watch it with my hubby which is unusual for us as we don’t typically watch programs with commercials preferring cable shows and series, but this one is a gem, but that figures the networks are clueless as to what the public wants. They don’t promote the good shows enough and give them a chance to catch on. We’ve never missed an episode. It’ll be back to the cable programming for us once it’s gone. Too bad. I’d like to see Lux graduate, college, career… there’s plenty to expand on… Read more »
I like the show too! I do want Kate and Baze to end up together but I agree that won’t happen effectively at the end the 13 episodes. I do not like the whole teacher-student thing. Maybe it needs to be addressed but I’d rather do without. That soryline has me sometimes changing the channel for a minute or two. This show can do so much better!!!
Please PLEASE don’t cancel Life Unexpected!! It is a good show with interesting plotlines. I look forward to it every week and would be so disappointed if it doesn’t get the chance to finish it’s ultimate story arc.
At least give it a full season so the writers can bring the story to a satisfactory close!!
I think it’s a great show – I DVR it & it is the show that I look forward to watching the most each week! I am 34 years old & I love it! Not sure why it didn’t catch on with other viewers. Makes me blue to think that it may be cancelled! Maybe group it with the 90210 crowd vs. the One Tree Hill crowd?
Life Unexpected is one of the best shows on tv right now and THE BEST family show ever! Please don’t give up on it. I didn’t even discover it until a couple of months ago. There isn’t very good advertising for it at all. That is probably the biggest problem.
I would ask to at least let it finish out its entire second season so fans can see Cate and Baze get together naturally.
Don’t cancel. All shows are the same but this has diff story line. Really good show
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL LIFE UNEXPECTED!
i think its the best show they have right now. I babysit on tuesday nights so i can never watch it but every weekend the minuet its online i get on and watch it, and watch all the previews for the next week. i can’t wait! if anything cancel one tree hill, or even gossip girl which is getting sadly boring. But so many people watch it, maybe move it to a night with a more popular show so more people see it. PLEASE DON’T END THE SHOW. I LOVE IT!