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 JUST THINK THESE STORIES ARE REAL ,,,THE REAL LIFE,,,,,EVERY THING HAPPEND BECOUSE OF THE BAD DECISION THAT KATE AND BAZE MADE WHEN THEY WERE 16,,,PLS THIS IS THE REAL LIFE,,,IT SHOULD BE CONTINEUED FOR A LOT OF REASENS,,,,WHEN U LET GO UR BABY ALL OF THESE THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO HER,,,,NOT EVERY THING HAPPENS FOR UR NIEGHBER
Love, love, love this show!! Don’t cancel it!
I love this show!!!! my sisters and i watch it together…. you have to make season 3!!!! you have to…. you can’t just end it with Baze and Cate are together!!! i mean how did that happen??? please oh please make season 3!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!
I am sad to see the show go. I was really looking forward to its returning after the holidays but had no idea that it would be a season finale. I still want to know what happens after Tasha is released from juvy.. It was a good show and hope that it will pick back up. I did not start watching the show until August of last year and really liked it. There is soo much more to the story that the viewers have not found out about, like what happens to Trey or what he got as a sentence..… Read more »
i love this showw so much. it has alot of thing show dont really have. it talks about a foster kid and how she got her parent back but with problems. it is an amazing show it should not be cancelled pluse not all the shows on CW are all that great because they dont talk about what can really happen to a 16 year old girl trying to find her way with her biological parent even though she did know them all her life. i love this show dont talk it away and the last episode was the best… Read more »
dont cancel!!
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL IT!! I LOVE THE SERIE!!
I really loved the show! I’m really upset that we didn’t get a warrning that it was going off!
please dont cancel this show, i love it. the whole story line is so real. and its even more real the way they did the last episode, it would be nice to see how it got to that point.
Well, I am from Argentina..I started watching this series because it was shown here on cable but then they stopped, as Parenthood too. So I searched and found them on a website and I haven’t finished watching it yet but I like reading that there is a happy ending. They shouldn’t cancell it. I enjoy watching this kind of romantic and dramatic but also funny series. There are a lot of series that shouldn’t be on air and i don’t think this is one of them.
You can’t the show i started watching it two days ago and already seen the whole seasons it is very addictive once you start watching you can’t!!! Please don’t cancel the show it is the best!!!!!!
This was a fantastic show I will truly miss watching it. How disapointing that it is cancelled.
I like the show
This show was brilliant, i only discovered it because i happened to flick onto E4 (im from england) and saw Kerr Smith from charmed (of which i am a big fan off) and decided to watch, and it was great Lux was cool and i loved Cate and Baze. When i saw the finale which aired today i was happy to see that Baze and Cate were together and that Lux called them mum and dad. I’m really gutted that its over, there is so much other crap on, i think that they needed better advertising as i only discovered… Read more »
I totally agree with the above comments…I did the same (flicking therough and landed on E4) and thought that it was refreshing from the normal Hollyoaks awfullness that we have over here. Don’t cancel it, it’s fab and would love to see how the guys ended up the way they did.
I really don’t think they should cancel it. way awesome show a lot to learn from it. there are a lot of shows that haven’t had high ratings that have kept going like one tree hill its an awesome show but never promised to return they are now on season 8 there is so much garbage on tv it would be awesome to have this be one of the shows that I can watch with my husband and children every week.