It turns out that there won’t be a sixth season of the Switched at Birth TV show on Freeform. Series creator and executive producer Lizzy Weiss has confirmed that season five will be the end. She wrote, “This season of #SwitchedatBirth will be our final one. We are ending the show after an amazing 103 episodes with pride, love, and gratitude.”
Switched at Birth follows the lives of two teenage girls after it’s discovered that they ended up with the others’ families as babies at the hospital. The cast includes Vanessa Marano, Katie Leclerc, Lea Thompson, Constance Marie, Sean Berdy, D.W. Moffett, Lucas Grabeel, and Giles Marini.
The series debuted in June 2011, won a Peabody Award in 2013, and features several deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars. The fourth season finished airing in October 2015 was down by 28% in both the 18-49 demographic and total viewership. The fifth and final season has yet to be scheduled and will apparently have just 10 episodes (93 installments have aired over the previous four seasons).
What do you think? Are you a fan of this series? Do you think the final season of Switched at Birth should have been longer? Would you have watched a sixth season?
This is my most favorite show and I was expecting a 6th season. Now I am horribly disappointed!
NOOOOOOO, I am literally heart broken that this won’t be coming back!!!
I feel the same way!! I just wanna cry!!
I loved the TV show SWITCHED AT BIRTH, do not what to see it end, I looked forward to watching it every week, I am going to miss it greatly, wish it was still going on, I was looking forward to the sixth season, very sad it has ended, I hope someone will change their mind and renew it.
I am amazed on how many “Reality” tv shows that are still on. When we all know they are posed shows, meant to make the viewer think what is happening is true. I am ashamed that American viewers see a show like this as a waste of their time to watch. There were so issues and real life questions offered in this series. The show was thought provoking, anticipatory, and had a cast that adapted to the parts perfectly. It’s a shame ABC will show shows of repeated theme (comedy), (reality), and dismiss a show like this.
Please do another season this show has been a real big impact on my life and how I look at people it’s amazing to see just how far these 5 seasons have been and there is much more I want to find out about especially about what happens to Bay later on and What ever happens to Emmet and Daphne. I really hope they come out with another season and seeing that I keep playing the whole series over and over again makes me want to keep seeing more. Hoping they do get a six season even though they said… Read more »
Please do season 6! Don’t make it stop… we have to know what happens to everyone… boo for cancelling it.
This show is the best one I have watched ever,please make a sixth season!!
I loved this show!!! Please continue the series.
i totally think you should make another season it is a wonderful show please make another one
I found this show on Netflix and I just love the show. I found it to be refreshing from all the killing shows on tv. I am sorry to hear that there will not be any new seasons since it could grow with so many story lines. Please, continue the best show I have seen in a long time. Thank you for doing a wonderful show.
I love switched at birth. I just found this show through Netflix. I believe you are going to have a whole new group of watchers after allowing Netflix to show it. I believe the reason the rating fell in the 4thvseason is because it became more issue orientated over time. We are slwYs being blasted with issues and quite frankly I believe people need to just be able to relax and watch a show that is pure fun or guilty pkeasure. I’m all for the issues in their right time and place but I think that is what lowered the… Read more »
Omg i just found this show on Netflix and I can’t stop watching it. I want to watch the 6th season. Please continue recording it
I loved this show so much and would be so sad to see it go at season 5! There are so many story lines that could be made and so much unfinished things that fans including me of course that would love to see the show go on. What happens with Bay’s career and love life, watching Daphne kick butt and becoming a doctor and all the trials and tribulations that come along the way, seeing Toby raise Carlton and how much of an impact and message that can send to people in such a positive manner. It would just… Read more »
I loved this show.. I felt the writers did such a great job covering every topic of life from racism, bulling, disability, politics, love, heartbreak, diversity…. I just cant express how much enjoyed this show and I’m a 45 year old woman and I even let my elementary school daughters watch this show. This show was so tastefully and tactfully delivered, I was able to use it as a way to get conversations stated with my girls on important issues such as; when a person say’s ” No” that means know and what that means if the other person doesn’t… Read more »
I really hate that there will not be any additional seasons to Switched at Birth!!! This was a great, awesome and realistic show!! Growning up I had a deaf friend and she actually looked like Daphne but her name was Darlene!! I will truly miss this show!!
Nooooooo you can’t end it with just 5 seasons there is so much that can still be answered and so much that can happen. You have to continue it you can’t let it end it is one of my most favorite tv shows of all time pleaseeee you can’t end it!!!
I agree !!