Season 5 not starting until 2017?
So the show will be off the air for over a year? I read that on Wikipedia and was kinda dumbfounded.
"True power is deciding who lives or dies." Kara Zor-El (Supergirl)
I will hope that that will be enough time for the writers to come up with some halfway bearable storyline by then.
shareThe whole season is already filmed.
shareWhy then will it be shown only in 2017?
shareWhy then will it be shown only in 2017?
That's the million dollar question.
Lizzy Weiss has tweeted that it is not her decision and no one is more frustrated or devastated by it than she is. Freeform (aka ABC Family) decided to give "Switched at Birth" the shaft.
Everything is done. All filming for the 10 episodes ended in April. Lizzy Weiss tweeted a picture of her parking spot, as she drove away from the studios for the final time. She also tweeted that all of the editing of the last episode was complete. And she showed viewers a picture of her Blu-Ray dvd collection of all five seasons, which unfortunately is not for sale. share
Sounds weird. Are they afraid that Trump is going to target them for having a show with Latina characters in it who are not rapists?
shareMy theory is that Freeform is more interested in getting their new and select old shows going and don't want to have to wait to finish SAB to use that time slot. Now that they're no longer ABC Family they want to hook in viewers as quickly as possible. So they're going to wait until their newer and more popular shows are on hiatus and basically use SAB for that in-between filler time.
Personally, I'm not impressed with the decisions I've seen from Freeform so far. After The Fosters ends I think I'll be done with this channel.
What the hell is a Stiles?
Me I was kind of done with ABC Family (now Freeform) when they canceled Lincoln Heights back in 2009. The only reason why ABC Family/Freeform is on my TV radar is because of Switched At Birth.
Lincoln Heights and Switched At Birth are the best shows ABC Family/Freeform ever had and the network gave both shows 5 years or less and then showed them the door.
I was never into The Fosters but it seems like it's a good show from previews and such I've seen over the years.
Anyways, when Switched At Birth is gone in mid-Spring 2017 I am 150 percent done with ABC Family/Freeform.
I was never into The Fosters but it seems like it's a good show from previews and such I've seen over the years.
Oh this is a good show indeed. Check it out! It's the only other show I watch on the network besides SAB. Yes, it's a total shame they cancelled Lincoln Height, and how pitiful they only gave the show such little episodes a year. 43 over a five year period? Are you serious? The show was only being given 10-13 episodes a year, yet all their other drama shows were getting a full season of episodes a year. I call racism here. share
My theory is that Freeform is more interested in getting their new and select old shows going and don't want to have to wait to finish SAB to use that time slot. Now that they're no longer ABC Family they want to hook in viewers as quickly as possible. So they're going to wait until their newer and more popular shows are on hiatus and basically use SAB for that in-between filler time.
Personally, I'm not impressed with the decisions I've seen from Freeform so far. After The Fosters ends I think I'll be done with this channel.
Which is why is weird that SAB is not airing late August like the second half of season 4. If they give season 5 a January slot at 8 or 9pm than it is taking one of the traditional slots (June summer/January winter) for the channel. share