‘Girl Meets World’ Series Finale Airs Jan. 20: Disney Confirms Season 4 Cancellation, Rowan Blanchard Emotionally Bids Fans Goodbye [Video]
Disney makes the official announcement about Girl Meets World Season 4 cancellation.
A week back actor Rider Strong, who plays Shawn Hunter, on Girl Meets World had said that the Disney series has ended following the production on Season 3. Well, he was right as the network has made an official confirmation with an announcement on Wednesday making actress Rowan Blanchard aka Riley nostalgic about the whole journey.
Disney has officially cancelled Girl Meets World and now it is confirmed that Season 3 is the last installment of the spinoff that was based on the popular show Boy Meets World, reports Forbes. It will come to an end after 69 episodes. That is amid protest of the fans who were crying foul after Rider Strong made the statement about the cancellation and wanted Disney to continue the spinoff. The last episode will air on Jan 20.
Some feel that it is not surprising as the spinoff was witnessing a gradual decline in its audience. It came down from 5.16 million viewers in the first season to 1.5 million in the third season, thereby, proving that sequels and spinoffs are as susceptible to poor ratings. However, some say that the spinoff bore the brunt of undue comparison and it hurt the show which is common for other such projects.
Meanwhile, Rowan Blanchard who portrayed the protagonist Riley, on the show poured out her heart on Twitter, expressing gratitude as well as nostalgia for Girl Meets World, claims USA Today. The 15-year-old-actress said that being on the Disney show was the most significant event in her life thus far.
Describing the experience, she said that doing a show as a child into your teenhood is indescribably cosmic and scary. But one does it because one loves these people and it has become one's routine.
Blanchard also wrote that she is crying typing this because they were making a show but their lives turned into a movie. She admitted that she is trying to cope with the cancellation news by explaining to herself that these moments are forever and that this energy must amount to something much greater that a simple end.
Girl Meets World Season 3 final episode is titled Girl Meets Goodbye and will air on Jan. 20.
