Recovery Road TV show on Freeform, canceled; no season two. Pictured: Paula Jai Parker, Sebastian De Souza, Jessica Soula, and Daniel Franzese. (Freeform/Adam Taylor).
The Recovery Road TV show on Freeform has been cancelled after its first season. While Freeform has not published an official cancellation notice to its press site, Recovery Road‘s creator and executive producer, Holly Sorensen, has announced Recovery Road‘s cancellation, on Twitter. The Recovery Road TV series stars Jessica Sula, Sebastian de Souza, Alexis Carra, Daniel Franzese, Kyla Pratt, David Witts, Caroline Sunshine, and Sharon Leal.
You will find a series of Sorensen’s tweets, below. Her first tweet directly addressing the cancellation reads: “i am as proud of @RecoveryRoad as anything ive done and i didn’t create it. im heartbroken it ends after ten amazing episodes. [sic]” She later tweeted, “rip @RecoveryRoad. [sic]”
Smart money says the cancellation is due to ratings. Recovery Road‘s season one ratings were anemic. The Y/A addiction recovery drama averaged a 0.18 in the 18-49 year old viewer demographic and drew an average total audience of 0.46 million viewers.
Out of the 11 Freeform series’ ratings we tracked during the 2015-2016 television season, Recovery Road came in 9th out of 11, above only Stitchers and the cancelled series, Kevin from Work.
The tweets pointing to Recovery Road‘s cancellation began yesterday, when the Numb3rs TV show creator, Cheryl Heuton, tweeted, “Is it just me, or is this more than the usual number of last-minute cancellations?”
Sorensen replied, “having a bad flashback to the day you sit waiting by the phone on this day and it doesn’t ring until the bad news. [sic]”
Lizzy Weiss, the creator of Switched at Birth, which is cancelled after its fifth season coming to Freeform in January 2017, tweeted about the end of production on that series. She wrote, “The finale of #SwitchedatBirth is now locked. As I drive off from Santa Clarita, a final shot of the writers’ bldg.”
In response, Sorensen said, “Feeling you honey. I know that drive.” Her next tweet reads, “i am as proud of @RecoveryRoad as anything ive done and i didn’t create it. im heartbroken it ends after ten amazing episodes. [sic]”
She then posted a photo from the series, captioned with, “rip @Recovery Road. [sic]” Soon after, she tweeted another imaged captioned, “@RecoveryRoad rip. [sic]”
Check out the tweets:
Is it just me, or is this more than the usual number of last-minute cancellations?
— CherylHeuton (@CherylHeuton) May 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/HollyBSorensen/status/730926893017358336
The finale of #SwitchedatBirth is now locked. As I drive off from Santa Clarita, a final shot of the writers’ bldg. pic.twitter.com/jqTW4BmYjq
— Lizzy Weiss (@Lizzy_Weiss) May 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/HollyBSorensen/status/731267398091739136
https://twitter.com/HollyBSorensen/status/731278562288771072
https://twitter.com/HollyBSorensen/status/731288510368342018
https://twitter.com/HollyBSorensen/status/731290938765545472
Not familiar with the series? Here is Freeform’s Recovery Road TV series synopsis:
Based on the popular young adult novel by Blake Nelson, “Recovery Road” focuses on Maddie, a teenage girl dealing with addiction. Maddie has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at a sober living facility while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life.
“Recovery Road” stars Jessica Sula (“Skins”) as Maddie, Sebastian de Souza (“The Borgias”), Sharon Leal (“Dreamgirls”), Alexis Carra (“Mixology”), Kyla Pratt (“Dr. Doolittle”), Daniel Franzese (“Mean Girls”), and David Witts (“EastEnders”). The pilot was written by Bert V. Royal (“Easy A”) and Karen DiConcetto (“Ruby & The Rockits”), who will also serve as executive producers, alongside Holly Sorenson (“Make It or Break It”), Danielle VonZerneck (“Left to Die”), and Craig Piligian (“Abducted: The Carlina White Story”), and Beth Miller (“Revenge of the Bridesmaids”) from Pilgrim Studios.
Cast and crew of the Recovery Road TV show on Freeform; canceled; no season two. (Freeform/Adam Taylor).
Are you a fan of the Recovery Road TV series on Freeform? Do you think Freeform was right to cancel the show? Should Freeform have renewed Recovery Road for a second season? Sound off, in the comments.
Why would you guys cancel it it’s actually a good show and could me a lesson to kids
I am so upset about this show being cancelled. The cliff hanger, seriously?
This show could have helped save a lot of peoples lives. It should be brought back for a second season, or at the very least one last episode to tie up the loose strings and give us an ending with no cliff hanger.
this show should DEFINITELY BE BROUGHT BACK. the only reason it wasn’t watched a lot is because they should just air it on a streaming site!!! GUARANTEED MORE VIEWERS AND MORE EASILY ADVERTISED. i LOVED this show so much. and it needs to make a come back. amazing cast and acting. literally was heart broken after I binged the entire series and was left off on a HUGE cliffhanger.
THIS SHOW NEEDS TO COME BACK! IT IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND THERE IS NO WAY YOU ARE LEAVING ME WITH ALL OF THESE CLIFF HANGERS!! I need to see what happens next! There is too much that happened and if Recovery Road does not get renewed for another season then I will probably just become depressed.
The show is really great with much needed messages to youth for this day and age. I binge watched the entire season, it was so great. Please bring it back.
I really liked the show and was very disappointed to hear of its cancellation. It could have helped so many young adults; I know I would have been more knowledgeable had I had a show like that.
I don’t think this show should have been cancelled I think it could have helped so many people who have problems with addictions. It was only one season why cancel it after one season?
This show wasnt very publicized before being released. I never saw it advertised on other stations. I knew about it personally from being a Freeform watcher, however, was unable to watch it during its airtime. Thankfully I have Hulu which it was recently added to, and now I’m hooked on the show. Got left with a cliffhanger which is so unfair. We demand a season two. You can’t just end this beautiful story. This show had amazing potential that was hiding behind a shadow! Give it a 2nd chance!!!!
I was looking forward to season 2 of Recovery Road…there were a lot of loose strings which needed to be tied. I binge watched so I could be ready when the next season started.
I watched this whole show in one day m I am very disappointed to find it cancelled. As a fellow addict in recovery. This show helped me so much and could have helped so many more. Awareness is key in this day in age. And this show could have done so many great things about the stigma around addiction.
I agree with you it could help so many people they shouldn’t of canceled this wonderful show and it’s wonderful story.
I loved Recovery Road it made me feel like everyone no matter who they are has problems, and I wish there was some way for us to get it back… It felt so relatable and now I feel like it’s unfinished and it makes me so sad….it made me see the danger some people I really cared about but likes to party were putting themseleves in and I had them watch an episode with me and asked they get the message what about all the others who this show could have helped come to the realization
This was a great show and i started to get really interested in each and every one of the characters. How could they end the show like they did. I would really hope that they continue the show and im sure the viewers would appreciate that to.
This show could have spread awareness to viewers and the only reason it could have had a low viewing is because it was only on season 1, i watched the whole show in one day. Please bring back one more season with the same characters because you also left a cliffhanger!!!!!!!
I want season 2 of recovery road I love it 10 episodes is just not enough I say second season!
Wait a minute.. I just found out about recovery road and I watched all ten episodes and I loved it.. To me it was better then the empire.. I wanted to see what happens next after episode ten.. I love Jessica sula and she did a great job playing the main character as Maddie.. Y’all cancel it because of the low rating.. That’s because people didn’t know about it.. Y’all can’t end the show like that.. I’m from Detroit Michigan and my name is Erin Smith and I want a season two.. Well I need a season 2 with all… Read more »
I am so sad to see Recovery Road go it was one of the best shows on freeform please just bless ur viewers with a second season. You left us with a cliffhanger, even if they give the show two more episodes i will be eternally grateful.
This show was a great show. It did a wonderful job depicting how addictions work within a young persons life. It showed a lot of truths. A show I was hoping my child would have gottrn more from. She is 14 andd already two people she was close to passed away from a drug overdose. Shows like this are needed.