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 do not cancell the show. i really liked it =!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please don’t cancel this show. I work in a HS and also have a high schooler so this show speaks to both of us! It is a great show and would hate to see it end!
this is a great show. please do not cancel
I really loved watching Life Unexpected…. it was my favorite one…. the story line was fabulous. the show was great… we really all need season 3 and more plz….
I love this show and I am very sad it hasn’t returned the cw yet. I watch one tree hill and 90210 and life unexpected an use to watch the newer nelrose place but they already cancled that show. You can’t cancle this one to I have a DDR box to just to tape these few shows while I am at work because I can’t miss one episode. Ivan very sad thst te show hasn’t returned yet. Please don’t cancle it. Being it back!!’. It’s an awesome show touching and realistic and I kook forward to seeing it back. I… Read more »
I love this show. It’s a shame that the CW has decided to cancel it. I really looked forward to watching it every Tuesday night.
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THIS SHOW!!! Life Unexpected is one of the few shows that my sister and I both love and we would really like to see a season 3.
Please, Please, Please Don’t Cancel this show!!! I absolutely love this show! It’s one of the few shows that both me and my sister both love.
I like Shiri Appleby and Kristopher. However, I’m not so crazy about Brit Robertson. I’m sorry. Kerr Smith is good.
Even the thought of thinking to cancel this show was stupid !
It was a very good show !
So what if not that many people watched it, do you think its fair to the people that did watch it ?….. Ofcourse not.
Im one of those people & i want the show back.
What isnt fair either is the fact that the audience was able to get a sneak peek of season 3 and now were not even going to get to really see it.
Please bring the show back !!
I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! PLEASE DON’T CANCEL!!!!
DO NOT CANCEL! LOVE THE SHOW!!! Its one of the best shows in a while!!
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL!!!! I just have to know what happens!! Does Trey go to jail? How long? For good? What happens to Tasha after juvy? Does Eric ever come back? Do he and Lux ever reunite? Is Emma out of the picture for good? Does Sam become a love interest of Lux’s? Do they ever explore Jones as a love interest more/again, like does he end up with Tasha? Does Cate miracuously get pregnant despite the evidence? Does anyone at CWtv realize how many different ways and angles there are to explore with this show? If they have run out… Read more »
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THIS SHOW!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!! I think it as an amazing show, and I’m not alone! It is one of few REAL shows and depicts realistic, believable events and situations, unlike all the reality crap out there now (not that I don’t watch reality shows, but you can’t have NOTHING realistic to watch). My whole family watches it, even if it means watching a missed episode online. I even got my boyfriend into it!!! and he doesn’t ever give in to “my shows”. Now he actually enjoys it, and is equally upset that there are no more… Read more »
Pleeaaaseeee dont cancel!!!!!!!!!! I love this show. I’m in high school and every girl i know loves it too!
Please don’t cancel life unexpected, it is a great show