Life Sentence Cancelled by The CW

The CW has officially cancelled cancer dramedy Life Sentence after one season, series star Lucy Hale announced today.

The news doesn’t come as much of a surprise given the show’s soft ratings that subsequently got it sent to Fridays at 9:00. Renewal for a show about terminal illness was always going to be an uphill battle, particularly on The CW, and where Life Sentence doesn’t have the individual Netflix deal that Dynasty did and hasn’t generated the type of conversation/acclaim that fellow dramedies Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin did, The CW ultimately found it expendable.

From Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith (Significant Mother), Life Sentence tells the story of Stella (Hale), a young woman recently shaken to her very core by a terminal cancer diagnosis. Told she only had a short time to live, Stella decided to throw caution to the wind and make the kind of choices she was too scared to before her diagnosis. However, upon finding out that she’s not dying after all, she’s forced to live with the choices she made and learn to live life with the spontaneity that had been missing prior to this whole ordeal.

In addition to Hale, Life Sentence starred Elliot Knight (Once Upon a Time), Jayson Blair (The New Normal), Brooke Lyons (2 Broke Girls), Carlos PenaVega (Big Time Rush), Gillian Vigman (Suburgatory), and Dylan Walsh (The Good Wife).

The series finale of Life Sentence is set to air next month on The CW.