Though it was looking like the underperforming CW series had a chance at survival, the network has decided to pull the plug on Privileged.
Privileged follows the story of Megan Smith (Joanna Garcia), a perky young journalist who becomes a live-in tutor for two wealthy teenage girls (Lucy Hale and Ashley Newbrough). Others in the cast include Michael Cassidy, Allan Louis, Brian Hallisay, Kristina Apgar, and Anne Archer.
Despite positive reviews and buzz, Privileged debuted on September 9, 2008 to just 2.64 million viewers and a 1.2/3 rating/share of the 18-49 demographic. Those numbers weren’t great for the junior network and ratings for subsequent episodes fell significantly over the rest of the season.
The network made multiple attempts to boost the show’s audience — giving it more exposure by rerunning episodes in various timeslot — but most viewers just didn’t seem to be particularly interested.
Though the ratings certainly hadn’t mandated it, the network had been considering bringing Privileged back for another season. A few weeks ago, it was announced that the CW would rerun the series during the summer months, an indication that the series still potentially had a future.
But, though Privileged matches the CW’s target demographic, the network has ultimately decided to cancel it. The CW has several potentially strong new series in the hopper and would rather take a chance on them.
Following the cancellation news, series creator Rina Mimoun wrote to Michael Ausiello, “It’s truly heartbreaking. I’m so grateful to everyone out there who supported our little show and fell in love with Megan Smith. She was the most delightful character I’ve ever had the pleasure to write and watching JoAnna Garcia bring her to life every day was a gift I will never forget.”
She concluded, “I’m incredibly proud of the work we did and forever indebted to all the fans, critics and to Warner Bros. for being so wonderful and supportive. I will miss this more than you know.”
How would Megan’s story have ended? We may likely never find out.
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I have never been so disgusted in all my live my other half went to all the trouble of getting me all season 1 episodes the last one being No18 that said at the end ( to be continued ) and you go and pull the plug how unfair is that cant you do one more just to put a propre ending to it
Yours disgustingly
M Baxter
England UK
omg! i LOVE this show! it’s the best! do NOT cancel it!!! i need to know how it really ends!
I am from England and have started to find out about it and would have loved to see another season of it! All the shows I love tend to get cancelled! DAMN IT!!!! PLEASE GIVE IT ANOTHER SHOT!!!
Finally we find a show that is really good and it gets cancelled. Pls don’t cancel the show-everyone i know loves it
PLEASE DONT CANCEL IT!!! everyone really likes it. it has great reviews. go look on itunes. and if more people had heard of it they would all watch it. i hadnt heard of it untill a couple of days ago. please keep it!!! it just needs more advertising and more people to see it just once. PLEASE KEEP IT! or at least some other network bring it on
I really hope this show comes back. Megan was such a different character and someone girls in their 20’s and 30’s could look up to. I loved this show and am extremely disappointed right now.
OMG!!
They can’t cancel this show? It was so good!
I loved the suspense at the end of each show.
And it doesnt make sense to cancel because the season finale finished in a cliffhanger.
This show is great! And now its finished.
I LOVE the show. I’m so sad and angry now! Can’t belive that they have canceled the show. The best show in years! Hope that they will think again and continue with it, I want to see what happens to Megan, Will and the lovely chef 🙂
This is ridiculous. Why are all these stations cancelling shows that are good and keeping stupid reality stuff. This show was great and I looked forward to it it every week because it was something worth watching instead of all the other reality stupidity on television. I don’t even feel like watching CW anymore.
NO they can´t cancel the show, they just started to show privileged in my country and I love the show!!!
NO!!! They can’t cancel the show! I need to know what happens with Megan and Will!!!
I love this show! Its so nice and funny =(
This was one of my fave show’s!!! PLEASE DON’T TAKE IT OFF! How can we get it back! I need to know what happens!!!!
Can’t we start a petition to get it back?!?! I LOVED this show. Best one on CW all season.
I am shocked that you are cacelling Privileged. It was one of the best show that I have seen in years. There so much junk on TV now, I can’t believe that CW would not renew this “absolute Gem” of a show. If you had given it one more season for people to find it, trust me once you found this show you became addicted to it. The characters were so well written. It was easy to forget that you were watching something ficticious, it was so realistic. The creator Rina Mimoun should be extremely proud of herself. Is there… Read more »
Why are you canceling this , is a great show