The CW is defecting from The Republic of Sarah, cancelling the freshman drama after just one season, TVLine has confirmed. The Sept. 6 episode will now serve as the series finale.
“I’m sad to say the news is not good. The Republic of Sarah will come to an end on Monday with what will now be our series finale,” creator Jeffrey Paul King wrote on Instagram on Thursday. “Thank you so much to everyone who watched and who let our little show into their lives. It means the world to us. Please tune in on Monday and help us say goodbye to Greylock.”
Season to date, The Republic of Sarah has averaged 326,000 weekly viewers and a 0.05 demo rating (in Live+Same Day numbers). Out of the 30+ shows The CW has aired since Fall 2020, it only has out-rated the imports Wellington Paranormal and Dead Pixels, and placed 28th in total audience.
The show stars Stella Baker (Tell Me Your Secrets) as high school history teacher Sarah Cooper, who makes some history of her own after the mineral coltan is discovered underneath her hometown’s land. When Lydon Industries rolls in with its mining trucks, ready to destroy the picturesque New Hampshire hamlet and people’s property, Sarah comes up with a crazy plan: The town should claim independence, courtesy of a mapping loophole. She explains that Canada and the United States drew their borders in different places as a result of a shifting tidal bed, so the land where Greylock sits was never formally claimed by either country.
Rounding out the ensemble are Luke Mitchell (Blindspot) as Sarah’s estranged brother Danny, who is a lawyer for Lydon; Megan Follows (Reign) as their ex-senator mother Ellen; Ian Duff (New Amsterdam) as Grover, a diner manager and Sarah’s best friend; Hope Lauren (Awkward) as Danny’s ex-fiancée/Sarah’s friend Corinne; and Nia Holloway (Hawaii Five-0) as Sarah’s cop roommate AJ.
Also joining Sarah’s mission are a trio of high school students: L.A. transplant Maya (Westworld‘s Izabella Alvarez); introspective outsider Tyler (The Liberator‘s Forrest Goodluck); and popular girl Bella (Fuller House‘s Landry Bender).
TVLine’s Broadcast Renewal Scorecard has been updated with the news. Hit the comments with your reactions!
Well that sucks. I’ve actually enjoyed the show week after week
Network TV is really struggling and if it doesn’t have a superhero, the CW doesn’t do much for support. Sad that a good show with a genuinely interesting premise doesn’t make it. Good luck CW. I think you need a lifeline!
Considering the show hit the rare (or not-so-rare in this case) 0.0 several times in the ratings throughout its run, I’m not surprised. Even that’s too low for CW standards. Didn’t experience much/any DVR growth either. Sorry to the fans though.
This sucks. I was enjoying this show.
But I also am not surprised due to the lack of promotion of this show.
Well that sucks. I thought it was a good show.
I hate CW for cancellation this show the Republic of Sarah. I loved this show. So much more crap that’s kept Ed. It’s terrible news, just terrible.
It does suck I was just getting into one of the major networks needs to pick it up please.
This one is squarely on The CW – ZERO marketing push behind this show. Awful poster (that I had to seek out). I’d been interested since this was a Sarah Drew project and never watched an ep because I don’t like the CW app (guess that one’s on me). But to be fair, I don’t watch any CW show while it’s airing anymore because I don’t like that app.
I agree the marketing for this show was horrible.
I genuinely don’t think it would have made the slightest bit of difference. The show just had no audience in any sense of the word and couldn’t be saved. If it had decent streaming numbers maybe it would have stood a chance.
Hate this. This has easily become one of my favorite shows. Wish it would’ve had more support/push from the network. :(
Disappointed but not surprised. The CW and other networks fail to properly market unique shows and instead promote average procedurals. I thought this show was really interesting and had an original concept. I’m sad to see it end.
Procedurals? You’re thinking of every other network.
My comment mentions other networks.
I’m not surprised at this. I was watching each week but…I dunno, I found more flaws in the show than I would have liked. I don’t think it was that good of a show, at least personally, so I’m fine with this cancellation. I’ll just miss the actors, who all did amazing jobs with the material they were given.
YES! I completely agree. The actors were good, but eventually, I just had to stop watching because of ALL the drama. There was such promise with the premise of the show.
Agreed! I wanted to like the show, but I ended up hating most of the characters. The actors weren’t the problem though….it was the writing.
This was a really good show! I’m so upset it got cancelled. It’s not really that surprising though because it is a different kind of show for the CW nowadays. It was so interesting and dramatic and just got so much juicier with the latest episode! and Megan Follows!? Queen Catherine! I need her on my TV screen again stat! Along with Stella Baker!
Love Republic of Sarah. They always get rid of the good shows. Total bummer!
I enjoyed it but there were just too many critical times when I thought, “No, that would never happen under the circumstances that the show laid out.” I guess we accept it all the time in cop and lawyer and doctor shows, but the times when things just made no sense annoyed me here. It just didn’t take a whole lot for it not to defy logic completely. The credit cards, currency, citizenship, none of that made any sense. It’s as though the writers never went to high school, but also can’t read Wikipedia or ask an expert or hire a consultant. i enjoyed the show but it could have been better if it had been just a little more realistic.
Considering that most of the other CW shows either involve super-heroes, the supernatural or whatever the logic-defying genre Riverdale might be – I can’t be too troubled by this show’s occasional unlikely scenarios.
Riverdale makes Republic of Sarah look like a documentary.
I agree with this. The show had a really unique political premise, but it seemed as if all the writers cared about was the relationship drama.
To the surprise of literally nobody.
I have this problem.
Shows I like don’t seem to make it past the “worthwhile for us to continue to produce” so they get canceled.
Shows I don’t like (some I despise) stay in production for YEARS past what should have been their expiration date.
Oh well.
I never watched it because I could never figure out what kind of show this was from the promos- quirky small town, family drama, coming of age????
Of course it’s cancelled – sharp writing, good acting, unusual story line…
Yes, thanks for making that point.
Three Points:
-Writing was “sharp” if you compare it to a rusty butter-knife.
-Acting was CW-quality. Enough said.
-“Unusual” does not automatically mean “good”.
Ouch. So sorry for the fans.
I am surprised. They renew most shows and this one was better than others.
1. Dead Pixels and Wellington Paranormal were lower??? Those are really great fun shows. Accent problem much?
2. I watched every episode of Sarah out of loyalty to the CW. I thought the premise was interesting and hoped for good things from the pilot. But the show was BORING. The secondary characters were more interesting than the main ones. Many of the characters changed from all evil to all good and then back again, seemingly every other week.
Now start looking for the next iZombie or Reaper or Jane or CEG.
Such bad news. It’s a terrific show with an interesting concept and interesting characters. Why do they always cancel the good shows? There is no interest in good storytelling, just the almighty dollar. In the end there will only be shows that are all the same. Boring.
I enjoyed the show but it was a weird fit on the CW schedule.
The world must be coming to an end, The CW actually cancelled a show.
Luke Mitchell just can’t catch a break can he? anytime he shows on a series that series is either cancelled (this one and tomorrow people ironically by the same network) or his character is soon killed off like on blindspot and agents of shield.
Very disappointed they cancelled the show it was excellent and the story plot was different and great actors
I liked the premise, but did not tune in because of this exact possibility. Looks like I was right….