The CW has canceled two of its low rated freshman series’. Both Valor & Life Sentence have been canceled after only one season.
Valor was a military drama that followed an elite unit of U.S. Army helicopter pilots & starred Matt Barr, Christina Ochoa, Charlie Barnett, Corbin Reid, W. Tre Davis, Nigel Thatch and Melissa Roxburgh. The series debuted on the CW’s fall 2018 schedule but failed to receive the back-nine pickup. Its season concluded in late January 2018 with an average of 958,000 total viewers and a rating of 0.21 in the 18-49 demo. Valor actually beat the CW’s freshman series Dynasty in the ratings (that latter series is averaging 697,000 total viewers and 0.19 in the demo). However, Dynasty was among the 10 series the network renewed back in April because of its lucrative Netflix deal & international name recognition.
Life Sentence followed a young woman named Stella (Lucy Hale) and her family as they struggled to figure out what their lives would be when the cancer diagnosis they thought was terminal turned out to be anything but. Lucy Hale confirmed on her Twitter that she was notified by The CW that the show would not be getting a second season. The series was averaging a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demo and drawing less than half a million total viewers, making it the lowest rated series on the CW’s schedule this year.
