It looks like season four is the last that we’ll see of The Last Man on Earth. This week, FOX cancelled the low-rated Sunday night comedy so there won’t be a fifth season.
A FOX post-apocalyptic comedy, The Last Man on Earth stars Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, January Jones, Mel Rodriguez, Mary Steenburgen, and Cleopatra Coleman. After a deadly virus devastates the planet, Phil Tandy Miller (Forte) believes he’s the last human alive. Eventually, he finds other survivors and alternates between misery and elation. In season four, to avoid nuclear fallout, the survivors set sail for Mexico, even though none of them know how to pilot the boat. They also have to squeeze in two new passengers, Pamela (Kristen Wiig) and her dog, Jeremy.
The Last Man on Earth: A Look at the Ratings
The Last Man on Earth has managed low-to-middling ratings for the past few seasons and this season saw some new lows. Season four averaged a 0.79 rating in the 18-49 demo and 1.95 million viewers.
For comparison, season three averaged a 0.89 rating in the 18-49 demo and 2.12 million viewers. The series could have easily been cancelled a few times over the years due to low ratings. It appears that this time, the numbers just sank too low for FOX. The defacto series finale aired on May 6th.
Jones broke the news on Instagram and thanked the cast and crew and fans for their support.
Creator/star Forte is out of the country but thanked fans in this (hopeful) post from four days ago.
What do you think? Are you a fan of The Last Man on Earth? Would you have watched season five of this FOX comedy?
Dude! I know it’s was ridiculous, but that was what made it funny. Totally unpredictable and sort of a contest to see what the dumbest thing was that they would do.
I wish some other tv studio could pick this up! I love this show.. Will Forte’s humor is hilarious and seriously no other show besides this show and the Office makes me laugh so much.
You just ruined my life by cancelling the last man on earth series
Sad, I was really looking forward to Season 5. Last Man on Earth was a different type of show, one with no predictable ending like most shows on TV today. Hope Fox will reconsider and at least give it a finale.
I’ve got ONE WORD for Fox’s choice to cancel this series…………LAME!!!
I love the Last Man on Earth tv show. I would watch season 5. I always watch this show. I may go to different sites to watch it if I can not stay up to watch it on TV, but I always watch it. You have got to realize that you will never get much better ratings on any TV show than you have on this, because there is so much entertainment on TV, Cable, Satellite dish, ETC. This is a very interesting show and I wish you would let it continue as it is the BEST show on TV!!!… Read more »
Loved this show! Hate it when you leave a cliffhanger then cancel. How about one more season? Or did you ever consider taping a final episode in case you cancel so you could bring the series to a close with all the fans? Truly an entertaining show!
Please do an episode to tie up the questions!! Who are all the people what happens to everyone!!! I binged the whole series in three days and I looooovvvveeee this show!!!!
The title became increasingly errant but still a good show – sorry to hear its been canceled.
This was a genius comedy !! Quality humor, cast, and production.. it was actually interesting not like the usual junk they produce today. I believe “Rating” is overrated. The TV shows industry needs to find new and better way to evaluate contact!
Bring me season 5. Doooo it
I just bindge watched all 4 seasons…. loved every episode! Couldn’t wait for s5 to come out so I was checking to find out when and i see that it’s been cancelled. So sad. Plus now for the rest of my life I’ll be trying to figure out what would happen next, who are all the people, what’s there story? Maybe one final episode to tie up loose ends…1a 2 hour special or something. thanks
As usual Fox dumps great stuff with no warning to wrap up. It’s like any fox network program should never be allowed to end a season with a cliffhanger. I’m not going to say this being cancelled is Firefly 2.0, but it’s annoying and hurts.
Love this show!!! Wish they could put all the episodes on Netflix Canada. Wish they could renew the show!!!
This reminds me of my name is earl. It was another amazing tv show that ended on a cliff hanger! If they are going to cancel it they should not have ended on a cliff hanger!