ABC Family is breaking up with Melissa & Joey. The cable channel has cancelled the sitcom after four seasons.
On Melissa & Joey, up-and-coming local politician Melanie Burke (Melissa Joan Hart) hires recently divorced commodities broker Joe Longo (Joey Lawrence) as a nanny for her niece and nephew (Taylor Spreitler and Nick Robinson). Mel and Joe eventually fell in love and in season three, they were married.
The cast and crew are still filming the show’s fourth season and will wrap next week. A statement from ABC Family notes “The comedy will conclude its storyline at the end of the fourth season, to air later this summer.”
ABC Family’s new Executive Vide-President of Programming and Development, Karey Burke, said, “We are proud of the milestones Melissa & Joey has achieved, being the network’s first sitcom to reach 100 episodes and the network’s first comedy to win a People’s Choice Award… Now that the kids are grown and Mel and Joe have married and are looking towards starting a family, it seemed like a natural time to bring the series to a close. We are grateful to (stars) Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence and the whole cast and crew who worked so hard on this successful show.”
By the time, the series comes to an end, more than 100 episodes of Melissa & Joey will have been produced. The 100th installment, which airs March 18th, will serve as the mid-season finale.
What do you think? Do you like the Melissa & Joey TV show? Do you think that it should be ending or would you have watched a fifth season?
I am sad to see Melissa and Joey go. Although it was a low budget tv show, the chemistry between the two stars was really infectious. Joey and Melissa could really go at it with each other but then end up kissing. Melissa has been on this low budget tv show route for years. Would be good to see both stars in higher profile network shows some day. I was wondering if Ryder has already left the show. His one or two little cameos this season seem to indicate he is no longer a regular cast member eventhough his name… Read more »
I love the show and was hoping for a 5th season. I think there is still plenty to pursue with the show, they just need to move it to the next phase in life. We can watch Melissa and Joey navigate the roads of marriage and then eventually have a baby. We can watch Ryder and Lennox struggle through college and becoming an adult.
The show had at least one more season if not two or three left in it.
This is typical of most tv stations anymore and why I am cutting back.
I am so sad to see the show leave! I would have watched every season the made it to! This show is full of original comedy displayed in the great chemistry these four people have with one another! But to the big wigs at ABC they would rather waste money on another show that may flop versus keeping a show that works on the air! Disappointed!
I agree another great family show off the air! ABC is off my list too. I’m sick of all the cops, reality shows this is a clean FAMILY show that I watch every week with my daughters ! We love Melissa & Joey and Baby Daddy. There is so much more they can do with the story line but they took the easy way out and canceled it. Shame on you ABC ! Keep Melissa & Joey ON you have no justification for the cancellation , maybe the writers should be cancelled. How about what the viewers would like to… Read more »
It figures, the show is funny, actors people like and doing well in the ratings! So lets cancel it! Have been watch it since day 1 and also on Netflix ( because there is nothing on) What new bone head thinks this is a good idea? So much more they can do with this show. Well hear this new bone head, Abc family, your off of my favorite list! won’t watch your station again, Nothing you offer I want! Farewell..
Why ???..ratings are good, have won awards..there’s lots of places the writers could have taken them as a married couple & the grown children..(maybe needed fresh new writers. Sorry to hear the news
My daughter will be heartbroken. We watch it together whenever it comes on. In recent weeks we have actually gone back to the beginning thanks to Netflix and enjoyed the series again. I hate to see Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence go but there is no getting past politics. I really hate to see the show end so soon…
please do a fifth season i love this show.
They should do another episode….great show for family values.
Every time there is a good comedy that everyone enjoys on TV it’s cancelled. Keep Melissa & Joey on & bring back Happily Divorced too!!!
I agree with you so much! Melissa and Joey needs to be renewed for more seasons and more Episodes. This show has more ideas of episodes they can make like Mel being pregnant in different episodes by Joe. And them showing Mel have the baby shower and showing her having the Babys! Come on make more seasons and episodes.
Ahg! This stinks, I love Melissa and Joey, It’s such a great show, I’m really sad to hear that there won’t be another season.
Please don’t cancel Melissa and Joey!!! I love this show!,
I want the show to continue! I love Melissa and Joey.
I am really disappointed that Melissa and Joey has been cancelled. It is a wonderful show. The New Executive is suppose to be targeting women, what better show to do it with than this one. It has a strong woman character in Melissa, a sexy male lead with Joey , and great family story lines. All three generations in my house watch, me, my mom and my daughter What a major mistake … I hope Joey Lawrence finds a new show quickly. I can’t wait to see what he does next…I have been a fan for a long time and… Read more »
Why is it every time a Network hires a new person in charge of programming these halfwits end up canceling the show/s that have the best following? It’s this Networks first show to reach 100 episodes. It’s ratings have maintained a steady base of viewers. I’m not a writer in this Genre but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out they have so many possibilities for storyline’s. What I didn’t see in this article was an acceptable reason to end the series. They don’t say the ratings have declined. None of the actors have quit. They don’t say that… Read more »