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 this show I love it too much. CW is just so disgusting they don’t even allow people to know about the show by giving commercials like those freaking stupid ” hellcats” How ’bout you cancel that crap and keep life unexpected.
Exactly, hellcats is promoted way more than life unexpected. This show should not be canceled. Last night’s episode was so good. All of the other shows on the CW are garbage.
I absolutely LOVE this show! It is the ONLY show I watch each week. It’s the only show that keeps me glued to the television. I think it has so much of everything…Drama, comedy, love, angsy…everything you could ask for in a weekly show! I don’t know, maybe its the slot it’s in. Whatever it is, it’s not the show!! This is my favorite show! Please don’t cancel!!!!
NO dont get rid of it! It is just starting to get good!!!
I love this show i cant wait ill tuesday comes around just so i can watch this fantastic amazing show. I will be very sad
Don’t cancel it, I love this show…. give it atleast one more season!!!
i think that life unexpected should be renewed cause i think the show is awesome. i really enjoy watching the show on tuesday’s and if it gets cancelled i don’t know what ill watch. SO PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THE SHOW!!!
Please please please don’t cancel. I repeat, my earlier plea. My favorite shows always get canceled before they even get a chance. Jack and Bobby for instance. I am just about over network television. Its sad to say but when these shows get moved around so much they never find their niche. Remember My So Called Life? 13 episodes that live in infamy. Luck LUX, we are supporting you.
PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL THE SHOW!!!! :'( Its the best thing on TV right now. okay, im not from the states, i watch it in England. But i love this show and so do all my friends!
I am so obsessed with this show its not even funny….i look forward to every tuesday like its christmas!!! I think that it would be stupid to end the show so soon without given it time to catch on. I watch a lot of CW shows and if they cancel this one I might have to stop watching all the others cause I’ll be so mad!!!!
I believe people are pretty busy and though most dont watch it when its on many do DVR. People work and families are struggling and the age group being targeted is prime for college and employment. I do not think this show should be canceled. It is also possible that people have lost interest because you play so many games with this show. Look what you did last year and when you start messing with something people like you will lose them and they will find something else to watch. Stop messing with stuff CW
This show is a great show , I thnk that the show was not marketed as well as some of the other shows that the cw has. This is actually a show that I look foward to seeing every tuesday. I think that the writers have a quality script and the actors and actresses portray the characters well. Whenever I tell anyone about this show they say that they have never heard of it, several of my friends watched the show for the first time and cant stop talking about it. I think that before the station makes the mistake… Read more »
I absolutely love this show! I look forward to Tuesdays just because I know Life Unexpected comes on! I dont know how they can cancel it when it has such a good story line behind it. Publicize it more before you just cancel it, I have told so many people about it and they have never even heard of it before. Its not that the show isnt worthy of being on the air, its that people dont even know it exists! SO angry at the CW right now, hopefully all the talk of cancelling will increase ratings in the next… Read more »
Please do not cancel this amazing show!!! I have not missed 1 episode!!! The show is creative, catchy, and overall deals with issues that teenagers, parents, and families go through each and everyday!!! At the end of every episode I cannot wait until the next one!
I have watched this show since it started and I will be devastated if they cancel it. It was interesting how problems were solved and how the characters related to each other. I looked forward to the episodes each week and I will really miss it.
Please don`t end the show, I enjoy watching it every week. It`s just like reallife which is better then the stupid reality shows. Please keep it going.