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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?
Don’t cancel!!!! I binged watched from episode 1 as soon as I got Hulu!
It would be ashame to cancel such a great show, love the have and the have not.
Please, Please don’t take this offI love this show this is my weekly pleasure. Tyler is the best❤️❤️
I love The Haves and Haves nots, but it’s getting repetitive and boring sorry just saying. Veronica, Jim, no one gets away with this stuff in the real world forever come on now. It had a good run but it’s time to cut a rug Tyler
Hi my name is Shela I have not missed and episode. This is the best show he’s made that I love. Please don’t cancel.
I have been watching from beginning and I hope they close all the holes from the beginning of show if they plan on ending series but hope not
Please don’t cancel this show. I love it. It’s one of the best shows Tyler Perry has on TV. Please do a nineth season and so on…
I like this soap. Please continue. Everytime you like something it’s done away with. I’m almost ready to not watch them at all
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Please don’t cancel night time soap Opera The Have And The Have Not. I have been a fan of the show every since season one… I like all the characters and the last three seasons Veronica has been bringing it!!! I am a big fan of Candice as well… I would love to see her and the president get together I believe that they would be a dynamite couple!!! If they cancelled the night time soap opera that have and the Have Nots I would no longer be watching the OWN channel!!! Due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic I believe… Read more »
This show has alway seemed amateurish and campy to me. It was campy fun at first now it’s just an insulting waste of time. Perhaps with Tyler Perry’s power and wealth he could hire some professional writers and directors for his shows instead of doing everything himself. Just a suggestion for the future coupled with appreciation to some of the fine actors that I wished had better material to work with,
Please don’t cancel my brother-in-law and my favorite show! This has invigorated us all of these years! Never missed any episodes! Keep this show going!
Yes ive watched the show as well as many others we were waiting for season nine cause one of the characters didnt get what she deserved and thats what everybody waiting on after that then it can be done by the way I’m fron philadelphia and everybody here watches the shoe
It’s time to go. The show has gone from classy and sassy to trashy and to many incomplete
storylines.
I have been a loyal fan of the Haves and Havenots, I know that at some point, it will have to have a finale. Let’s hope that it’s smooth. Thank you