The CW’s ‘Beauty & The Beast’ To End Run With Fourth Season

It’s official: The fourth season of Beauty and the Beast will be the last. It is not immediately clear if the fourth season, which The CW picked up before season three had even started airing, will air midseason or Summer 2016. A premiere date will be announced at a later time.

The CW announced that the drama series’ upcoming 13-episode run – starring Kristin Kreuk and Jay Ryan – will be its last, according to Deadline.

Beauty and the Beast fans received sad news on Tuesday.

“I truly like it as a summer series”, Pedowitz told reporters at TCA summer press tour in August. We’re doing more and more of this, and having Beauty and The Beast gives us a few scripted programming for summer.

As Variety points out, the show never really found a wide audience, averaging just 1.6 million viewers and a 0.6 18-49 rating for its second season, which aired during the regular 2012-2013 TV season. One of our stated goals for the network was to have year-round programming. “So I plan to keep it there”. We’ve always been a fan, but at around season 2 it looked nearly like a lock that we’d be seeing the show canceled then. After being pushed to the summer schedule, it saw that average erode in season three, however, to somewhere around 800k.