Last year, Freeform cancelled its Guilt and Dead of Summer TV series, after their first seasons. Now, the cable channel seems to be leaving the darkness in the past with The Bold Type TV show. Have they found a winning formula with this lighter summertime fare? Will The Bold Type be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned.
A Freeform drama inspired by the professional life of former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief, Joanna Coles, The Bold Type stars Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee, Meghann Fahy, Matt Ward, Sam Page, Melora Hardin, and Nikohl Boosheri. Set at the offices of Scarlet, a women’s magazine, the story follows the newest generation of “Scarlet women” as they make their marks on the industry. It centers on Jane (Stevens), Kat (Dee), and Sutton (Fahy), who support each other even as they learn to assert themselves to the formidable figures at the company. Together they delve issues including sexuality, identity, romance, and style.
Below are the show’s TV ratings, typically the best way to tell if the series will be cancelled or renewed. These figures will be updated as the weeks progress.
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Note: The pilot aired after an episode of Pretty Little Liars in June and was then made available online prior to the July “premiere”.
What do you think? Do you like The Bold Type TV series? Should this Freeform TV show be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
10/4 update: Freeform has renewed The Bold Type for season two and season three. Details here.
I liked the show at the beginning, Joanna Coles interacted with watchers on Twitter and there was a perfect balance of serious issues and comic relief. Now it’s all serious. After a day of working in the media myself, the last thing I want to go home to is a show about how high stake jobs are constantly at risk and you’ll be heartbroken every time. I need more funny moments I need to be reminded of why they are friends and love their job. More yoni egg moments.
This show can not be cancelled it has to be one of my favorite new shows up to date I would hate for it to not go on please make a season 2
This show needs to be renewed. It displays perfect messages on multiple fronts given the world we currently live in. It’s a wonderfully entertaining show, and if the network gave “Stitchers” at least 3 seasons, and “Famous in Love” was renewed for a second season, “The Bold Type” deserves at least a second season.
It’s also paired very well with “The Fosters”. I’m much older than the demographic the show is aimed at, but I do look forward to each episode.
“They are inspiring and make you feel good” LOL….how’s that when every time I see a Bold Tripe promo for even approximately .87 seconds(the time it takes me to push “skip” of my hddr remote) I feel like I want to release projectile vomit at my TV?? Also(to “Lauren”), Golden Girls(when it first aired eons ago) was intended for people older than my mother(who’s 75 now)…..there IS such a thing as 40-something(which I am), which is by no means old(unless you’re 11). Lastly, once again this past week’s latest ratings crash proves my point about this wretched series: general viewership… Read more »
I love this show! So what if that’s not how your life is? They are inspiring and make you feel good and the whole point of TV shows is to get you out of your own reality for a little bit! I’ll be very disappointed if it gets cancelled! And so what if it’s for a younger group? If you’re to mature for it then go watch Golden Girls instead!
Cancel this lame show. It reeks of media again trying dictate to us how to feel act perceive life. Its so out of touch with reality & again give millenials false ideas about life. Do better cable tv.
The “music” in this show’s promos is reason enough to hate it with the force of 1 billion suns, though I confess to never watching it(why would I). We’ll see if the general audience drops again this week(when the general drops the demo isn’t far behind…). Who knows, maybe if they dropped the ****** hipster “music” in the promos more people MIGHT tune in(listening, Freefall?)…
Well, I was right; 18-49 dropped 10.53%(it’s done)….
Excuse me have you met Freeform and their ratings. With the fans loving this show so much it’s most likely gonna get renewed. These ratings are normal for Freeform
http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/freeform-tv-show-ratings-33382/
Freefall’s ratings(all shows): Bold Tripe is 4th-to-last in the 18-49 demo & DEAD LAST in general(all ages) viewership, so it doesn’t matter how much fans(what few there are) “love” it(love away….won’t improve ratings), and “normal for Freefall” doesn’t protect you when you’re at the VERY BOTTOM of general viewership & losing demo also.
Freeform has been calling it a breakout hit and also stitchers after it’s horrible season 2 got renewed for a season 3 bc of the fans that’s what Freeform said. So if the bold type has an even stronger fanbase I’m not surprised it’s gonna be Renewed. Also all the sites where it has predictions for Freeform shows says the bold type will be renewed. And tbh it doesn’t matter if it’s dead last at the state Freeform is in they will renew anything once it has a 0.1 demo and 300,000 views
didn’t i tell you it would get renewed
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/freeform-tv-show-ratings-33382/ I understand Beyond getting green lighted with their .549 million average general viewership. I’m guessing Freeform is automatically 2nd-chancing all of their season 1 shows since Famous In Love also apparently got renewed with a similarly atrocious general audience to Bold. I’m just wondering how those 2 shows are drawing any ad revenue(or advertisers period). Honestly though I don’t care if the show stays on(or for how much longer) but I WISH they’d do SOMETHING about their ANNOYING. GODDAMN. ADS. The music & overall presentation of those ads is DUMSTER FIRE QUALITY and, if anything, probably REALLY hurts the… Read more »
With the PLL farewell, this show is great for those sad to see PLL end and are in need of a new addiction! It’s fresh, light, and fun, while also touching on some important issues thus far. Definitely representative of the Millennials! The three main characters are very different, yet manage to mesh effortlessly. They make me wanna join them in the closet! Being a conservative Christian, I may not personally agree with everything portrayed, but it is based at a woman’s magazine, so I expect and can respect the diversity of views shown. I’m in my thirties and am… Read more »
A great show about different women that actually tackles intersectional feminism and sapphic relationships respectfully and truthfully. Hoping for that second season renewal! So don’t be a Greg and watch it.
Gimme a break. This show is nothing more than a cable network attempt to reach the “in” crowd of millenials. Dont buy into the false “real” issue topics they purport to address in show. Its a lame show & lame plot & poorly written. Yet another Tv show that falsely frames to our nation’s 14-24yr old people how life really is not. Its garbage.
This show is just trash. What kind of lesson is it trying to teach women? This show needs to be cancelled and I ask all of you to stop watching it.
I don’t need you to tell what and what not to watch so srry you don’t like it but I do
How old are you? It’s “teaching” women what? If you are old enough to watch this show and you actually live by the lessons in this TV SHOW, than you are too immature and NOT ready to watch it! If you are 18 and over and don’t know right from wrong nor proper morals, there’s a problem here.
I AGREE!
This show is a awful. Forcing sexuality down the viewers throats. Bad acting, and horrible plot line. A big “trying to hard” yawn. Not a show I would allow my teenage daughter to watch.
too*. Also, I completely disagree with you.
Please keep this show going. The Kadena story was my life back a few years. So I can so relate, and let’s face it, this cast just clicks and are amazing together. Let’s keep them together.
Pleaseeeeeeee renew this!!
The bold type should be renewed for a second season it is so inspiring to young women.
A test pattern could get better ratings.
On any other network but not on Freeform