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The eighth season of The Haves and the Have Nots just kicked off on OWN this week. While the series hasn’t been cancelled, it seems like the Tyler Perry drama is coming to an end in 2021 and won’t have a ninth season.
Airing on Tuesday nights, The Haves and the Have Nots stars John Schneider, Tika Sumpter, Angela Robinson, Renee Lawless, Crystal Fox, Peter Parros, Tyler Lepley, Gavin Houston, and Aaron O’Connell. The drama centers on the complicated dynamic between the Cryer, Harrington, and Young families of Savannah, Georgia. In season eight of this drama series, Judge Cryer (Schneider) and his rich friends are all finding out what happens when personal flaws go unchecked. Karma has not been kind to the elite one-percenters.
The eighth season of The Haves and the Have Nots currently averages a 0.10 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 873,000 viewers. Compared to season seven, that’s down by 60% in the demo and down by 34% in viewership. The series was once the cable channel’s highest-rated show but the premiere’s numbers put it much closer to the bottom of the list. Is it time for the show to end?
New York Post recently ran a profile about Robinson under the title “Haves and Have Nots star breaks down its final season”. The article goes on to confirms that the series is ending by noting “It kicks off its final season Tuesday at 8 p.m. on the cable network.” and “Robinson tells fans to expect the final season of The Haves and Have Nots to be an emotional rollercoaster.”
But wait, hasn’t the cast already filmed a ninth season? Maybe not.
In 2019, Houston said that he was about to start filming the ninth season of the series. The season lengths for this series have been very inconsistent — ranging from nine to 44 episodes a season — so, OWN could have changed their plans about how the episodes would be grouped.
OWN has been quiet about the show’s immediate future. However, Perry’s other shows on the channel have already ended. In 2017, Perry signed a deal to produce 90 episodes of television each year for ViacomCBS outlets (including BET and BET+) so that’s been keeping him very busy.
It’s unclear how many episodes in season eight but hopefully, The Haves and the Have Nots will have a satisfying conclusion.
What do you think? Do you enjoy The Haves and the Have Nots TV show? Are you sorry to hear that there won’t be a ninth season?
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I love. This show please don’t end. If loving you wrong is gone. Too close home is gone. Soon please leaving the have and have not along.PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Oh please don’t cancel the have and the nots
We all at work watch we are obsessed with the show.
I love Tylet Perry’s everything but now-a-days people have stream TV and downloading the BET+ app doesn’t help because now you want extra money to watch your shows. It’s too much!!
I am a writer and this series was ruined by horrid story lines!! We need new series with more talented writers…most of the shows/series on television now are CRAP! I’m available when you want some decent writing.
Please do not cancel I like watching the series.
Hi my name is Renee Payne and I don’t think that’s very Fair to leave us hanging and now we have nothing to look at wow the coronavirus is going on Tyler Perry that you should regroup and find it in your heart to make room but some more episodes of The Haves and Have Nots because the shelves sisters is not that good and Greenleaf is going off air okay sign
Have always enjoyed the show. Sorry to see it go even though I’m tired of Veronica always getting away with things.
Right, im ready to see her bad karma and so things coming here way.. I hope they don’t take it away..
I am very sorry to hear that TH&HN will be canceled. Please try to keep the series on! I look forward to Tuesday nights because of that show. I have watched from the start so I feel as if I know the characters personally
Thank goodness, this joke of a soap opera is finally ending. What about grown folks, acting as such. Can Jeffrey speak above a whisper? Thought he was a apsychologist, or a mental health professional of some sort and he can’t handle his “NYMPHO” Mom or that use to be cop who keeps stalking him. Yeah, its time to bring down the curtain. It ain’t real no mo
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I love the show can’t wait for Tuesday when I could watch. I hate to see it end, hopenot
I love the show can’t imagine not watching on Tuesday nights. I look forward to watching it. Best show on TV. My heart will be broken.
Please do not take The Have and Have Nots off!!! My husband and I look forward to it every Tuesday night !! Can you put it on the BET channel??? There aren’t too many good shows on tv. I loved If Loving You Is Wrong that was taken off. Was getting into Ruthless that went to BET plus which we don’t have.
Please Mr Perry Don’t let this Great Shoe End. It seems that all the really Good Blacks shows just come to an End when we all Love it. I Love all the Shows you have had an they just suddenly end. What is it with the Black set com’s. The white ones goes on forever?
Love have and have nots
Enjoyed the show. Sorry it is ending. Looking forward to a powerful show down.