OWN’s The Haves and Have Nots (HAHN), If Loving You Is Wrong and TLC’s Too Close To Home have been pre-cancelled with the departure of creator/EP Tyler Perry to Viacom in a multi-year deal.
All three shows will conclude by the end of the 2019-20 season.
Per THR:
Tyler Perry has entered into a multiyear content partnership with Viacom, it was announced today. The deal will cover TV, film and shortform video projects, including producing approximately 90 episodes annually of original drama and comedy series for BET and other Viacom networks. Viacom will have exclusive licensing rights on this programming and exclusive distribution rights to his shortform video content.
Bob Bakish, President and CEO of Viacom, said of Perry’s multi-year deal with the company:
“Today’s announcement represents an important step forward as Viacom continues to make swift progress against our new strategic plan. By prioritizing efforts to work with the best, most versatile talent in the entertainment industry, we are better positioned to deliver must-watch content across our brands and platforms. Tyler is a prolific creative force, and I’m excited that this collaboration will bring his signature humor and powerful storytelling to Viacom’s audiences while further cementing BET’s position as the leading home for bold, relevant African-American programming and scripted content.”
Perhaps foreshadowing Perry’s departure, OWN’s For Better or Worse and Love Thy Neighbor have already announced their final seasons.
OWN said of Perry’s departure and the end of their exclusive deal with the creator/producer/director/actor:
“OWN has an exclusive overall television production deal with Tyler Perry that runs through May of 2019 with series airing on the network through 2020. At the end of the exclusive relationship, OWN and Tyler Perry have the option to work together on a non-exclusive basis. OWN has had great success in the scripted space with Tyler Perry and with its new original dramas Queen Sugar and Greenleaf. The network will continue to aggressively expand its roster of premium original scripted series.”
Final seasons of The Haves and Have Nots and If Loving You Is Wrong will run through 2019-20, before crossing over into the TV afterlife.
Too Close To Home has been axed with immediate effect, and will not continue into Season 3.
RIP.
Mai Johnson says
No, tell me it ain’t so!!! If Loving you and Close to Home is my favorite. Please everyone write in, it is so wrong to cancel them
Renee Haynes says
I really hope that both come back because that’s why I watch TV just to see loving you is wrong Haves and have Nots and Too close to home please bring them back
Starmekia Blane says
Especially if loving you is wrong bring that back to TV even if you have to switch it to bet that was my show and I will not allowed to not watch it again Tyler please I hope you’re reading this bring it back please
Cindy Singleton says
I am totally addicted to HAHN and Too Close To Home. I hope the network reconsiders. Both shows have intense story lines. Tyler Perry is an excellent writer and producer and I would hate to see these two shows cancelled after such a short run.
Jason Dunn says
Why cancel some of the best intense shows on t.v. i know we must move on to other things sometimes but why now when all the shows are great. I hope some other station pick all of them up. Good luck Tyler Perry on your new business adventure
Andrea Hayes says
I am addicted to HAHN and If Loving You Is Wrong. Mr. Perry don’t do this to your fans
Erica Nieves says
Noooooooo!!!!! Love of loving u is wrong nd Have nots.. Please don’t do this to ur fans
Pertina says
No, it can not be true. I love watching these shows. Why are they being cancelled?
Tyna Dowdy says
Nooooooo can’t cancel my shows. They are so good
Sharina says
Thanks for at least giving us a couple of years to get over the disappointment of losing The Haves and the Have Nots. If it was immediate like tomorrow or even after this season I’d go crazy. I am glued to this show!
Thank you Tyler Perry for your brilliant, creative mind!
Helen Banks says
Please do not cancell HAHN…..and Loving you is Wrong. Great shows!
OWN has it going on!
Jennifer says
Why even put them on the air if you are going to cancel?
gloria triplett says
why are you cancelling !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the public love these shows …
Nicole Russell says
Why cancel the the Haves and have not and also If Loving you is wrong, just move them another channel. Mainly if you are not going to put them on DVD for purchased. I understand if you want to move on to something else, but keep the best on air and just move to another channel or either put all of those on DVD . I have been wanting to buy the complete seasons of the both of them. Please put both seasons on DVD
Rhemar Pouncey says
NOOOOO
NOT THE HAHN!!!!
I.AM CONFUSED. I KNOW THERE ARE MANY OF US THAT TWEET, FACEBOOK, TEXT & EVEN HAVE GET TOGETHERS TO WAYCH. THIS A Travesty!!!
jacquelynpee says
The Haves and the Have Nots final seasons premiered on March 3 & August 11 with 20 episodes and If Loving You Is Wrong final season premiered on June 9 with 9 episodes.
emma chastain says
haves and have nots and too close to home are my favorite shows on tv. It is a shame that these have to be cancelled
Jeannette Forcelli says
HAHN, no way……This is one of the best shows ever. I pray you reconsider. I got hooked on half a episode in the beginning and turn alot of friends on to it, who also got hooked right in. Please dont cancel one the of best shows on OWN
Lori says
HAHN is my number one show! How could you sign that away! OMG I am so disappointed right now. Why do good shows have to end so soon? I only started watching it because John Schneider was in it, so I gave it a chance. I have come to love the other people and characters in the show as well. Don’t care about the viewers! wow
Gayle says
HAHN and If loving you is wrong are the only shows I watch. Love Tyler Perry’s writing, he keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting for the next episode. I am so hooked on these shows, please don’t cancel them.
joshuagaskins says
The Haves and the Have Nots season six will premiere in 2019 – 20. If Loving You Is Wrong season five will premiere in 2019 – 20 on BET.
Sharon White says
What is the exact days for the final shoes of Hahn an if loving you bbq is wrong premiering.
RCTV says
HAHN premiered January 8th on OWN while If Loving You Is wrong was pushed back and will hopefully premiere February 27.
Joyce Bowyer says
It is a shame to cancel If loving you is wrong an the Haves & Have nots. Did you know that men are watching and wonder what happened to the shows especially If loving you is wrong. Our community and other male friends are fans of these stories. Please reconsider and bring them back .My son is in his 40’s and keep asking me what happened to If loving you is wrong?
We have been checking the schedule each night until I saw this.
Sally Dickerson says
What is Tyler Perry doing? He’s getting rid of Madea and now HAHN & If Loving You is Wrong!! My son in Germany loves HAHN. It is the first topic on Wednesday mornings that we discuss at work. Why can’t he take the shows to BET!!???
Nicole Reynolds says
Is If Loving You Is Wrong going to be cancelled? I waited a whole year for it to come back on and when it did, they only gave us 4 episodes and we still don’t know who Alex’s baby daddy is. I WILL NEVER watch TV again if they cancel this. Why do they always cancel good shows? I just don’t get it. And I don’t watch HAHN but ALOT of people do. In 2003 they cancelled my favorite show “Port Charles” and I would not watch TV at all because I prefer music anyways and then I started watching the HGTV because I like looking at those beautiful houses anyways one evening I came across this and Alex and Randall were in the shed and they both told each other they loved one another and then Alex was like “don’t call me ever” but anyways, I started watching it because it had a bi-racial couple (I thought at the time) and they never do that and they need to start doing that so if it’s cancelled I will sell my TV and have Direct TV cut off and I’m dead serious.
P. Stark says
Your shows are excellent!! I would like to see them play out a little more. Your shows are Therapy for many people. Let your characters play.. Melissa could have had her baby. Veronica could have found out later that it was not Jeffrey’s baby. Let Hanna build on the relation with Derick. Bring some healing along with the drama. I would like to have seam Erica and David having a child together. Let the drama play out concerning her pregnancy. Show veronica Not being able to find a man. Ha! Ha! Kathy and Mitch could have a great relationship. There are so many acts that could have play out before the drama. Let Jim and Candace end up in the same treatment to heal themselves of sexual therapy. Make Benny one of the richest Men in the city. Plot and outcome with Wyatt that will make him a Christian. Let seams play OUT!!!! Instant drama will some times drain Excitement. Develop a character that would rule he city like Donald Trump rule the country Justine and Eddie from loving you is wrong should meet and cause problems for Jeffrey. Since there will b no more show I have provided an ending to the world’ greatest producer and show. .Please don’t Stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trina L Achane says
WE DON’T WANT THE SHOW CANCELL. WE LOOK FOWARDED TO WATCHING THE SHOW EVERY WEEK.