10 Shows That Will Be Ending After Their Final Season In 2020/2021
Show cancellations are par for the course on television. Unless it's The Simpsons or Survivor, not every series can go on forever! Jokes aside, there are plenty of show cancellations each season, some that come abruptly, much to the dismay of fans and creators who aren't given the chance to wrap up the story. But others are actually planned. The Crown, for example, has made clear that the series will only run for six seasons, with the final one likely airing sometime in 2023. Breaking Bad purposely ended when it was on top, simply because the story had to come to a logical end.
Like those shows, several other series are wrapping things up and confirmed that their upcoming or currently running 2020/2021 seasons will indeed be their last. This provides an opportunity to give the story and characters a proper exit.
10 Keeping Up With The Kardashians
After an impressive 19 seasons of giving fans a voyeuristic view into the lives of the blended Kardashian-Jenner clan, Keeping Up With The Kardashians will finally be coming to an end after the season that premiered in September 2020.
It started in 2007, with a focus on parents Kris and Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner and their kids, Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Kendall, Kylie, and Rob, along with their respective significant others and, later on, kids. Fans love the catfights and drama and revel in the totally unrelatable issues of the family that lives in luxury.
9 Dead To Me
It makes sense that this Netflix original, which premiered in 2019, would end after its upcoming third season. There's not a lot more story to tell and the dark comedy would have to take a completely different direction to continue on.
Without revealing too much, Dead To Me begins when a widower finds a new friend in a support group who helps her through the tragic and unexpected loss of her husband in a hit and run car accident. But she discovers this seemingly innocent friend isn't exactly who she thought and has a few skeletons in her closet. As both women come to grips with the confusing and somewhat co-dependent nature of their friendship, they get caught up in some terrible event. Yet it's still a wonderfully heartwarming story about friendship that gets viewers laughing, too.
8 Last Man Standing
Marking Tim Allen's return to television, this sitcom has had an interesting run. It originally aired on ABC from 2011 to 2017 but was canceled after its sixth season. Seeing that the series was quite popular and didn't deserve to be canceled, Fox picked it up for a seventh season, which premiered in 2018. It continued on, but the ninth season, which will premiere in January 2021, is confirmed to be the last.
Last Man Standing follows a conservative marketing executive with very traditional values raising his family in Denver, including his wife, three daughters, and a grandson. While fans have been vocal about their love of the show, it hasn't been well received by critics.
7 Supergirl
Fans will say goodbye to Superman's younger cousin and one of the last surviving people from Krypton in the final season of Supergirl, which premiered in 2015 and will end after season six, which will come out sometime in mid-2021.
It stars Melissa Benoist as the title character and is the third show to take place in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with the other DC Comics shows, like The Flash. For those upset that it's ending, keep an eye out for a planned spin-off, Superman & Lois, which is set to premiere in January 2021.
6 Younger
Imagine being 40 and divorced but having everyone you work with believing you're actually much younger? That's is the gist of the Darren Star series Younger, which has become the longest-running original series in the history of TV Land.
The series, which stars Debi Mazar, Nico Tortorella, and Hilary Duff, is based on a 2005 novel of the same name by Pamela Redmond Satran. It premiered in 2015, aired the sixth season in 2019, and its seventh season will be the last.
5 The Walking Dead
Fans still have plenty of time before this post-apocalyptic show comes to an end. But it has been confirmed that the long-running series about a virus causing people to rise from the dead as flesh-eating zombies, and the survivors trying to rebuild a new world around them, will wrap up its story after the conclusion of the 11th season. Keep in mind, however, that season 11 of The Walking Dead will be an extended one, that will begin in early 2021 but air its second half in 2022.
Until season 11 premieres, fans can enjoy its spin-off series, Fear the Walking Dead and Walking Dead: World Beyond. 2021 will also see a trio of spin-off films starring the character of Rick Grimes. Meanwhile, after The Walking Dead ends, a spin-off series starring fan-favorite characters Daryl and Carol will also be coming. Needless to say, there's plenty more story to be told in The Walking Dead universe, even if the show that started it all is coming to an end.
4 The Kominsky Method
An aging, has-been actor now works as a popular acting coach in Hollywood, training the next generation to achieve the type of stardom he only had a brief brush with. The star-studded cast of The Kominsky Method, headed up by Michael Douglas, also includes Alan Arkin, Nancy Travis, and Kathleen Turner.
Two seasons of the comedy-drama, which has been well-received by critics and reviewers alike, have streamed thus far in 2018 and 2019, with a third season coming, which will be the last. Arkin, however, won't be a part of the final season.
3 Ozark
Marty Byrde thought he could use his tremendous talents as a financial advisor to do a bit of money laundering on the side for a small-time cartel, saving up some dough for his family. But he was too good at his job, and the big boss came looking to recruit him, or else. Marty is forced to relocate his family to the Ozarks, where they try desperately to get out of a bad situation while doing what they can to protect a Mexican drug cartel and launder money for them such that it's totally untraceable.
The multi-Emmy-winning series premiered in 2017, and the upcoming fourth season of Ozark will be the last. Fans might be able to get their fill over a long period of time to come, however, as season four will be split into two parts with a total of 14 episodes. If it's anything like the first three seasons, be prepared for plenty of twists and turns.
2 Last Chance U
The only docuseries on the list, this sports-themed Netflix project follows the football program at community colleges in Mississippi and Kansas for the first four seasons and various athletes searching for structure in their lives there and hoping to make it to the NFL. Last Chance U ended in July 2020 with its fourth and final season, which took place in California.
Even though the series has already ended, a scripted drama is in the works, based on the first two seasons. Courteney Cox will both produce and star in the project.
1 Lucifer
Another series that got canceled and resurrected, Lucifer originally aired on Fox for its first three seasons from 2016-2018 after which it was canceled. But Netflix knew there was something still there and swept in and picked up the show a month later for a fourth season.
Netflix had initially said that the show, one of many the streaming service offers with demonic and supernatural themes, would end after season five. But considering its continued popularity, the show was extended for a sixth season of just 10 episodes which, as it stands, will indeed be its last.