Best. News. Ever.
One Day At A Time is officially returning for a fourth season – three months after it was cancelled by Netflix.
The reboot of the classic 1975 sitcom follows Penelope Alvarez, a newly single Army veteran, as she and her Cuban-American family navigate the ups and downs of life.
The show was picked up for a new season by Pop TV, with 13 new episodes expected to air in 2020.
Executive producer Norman Lear said in a statement [via Deadline]:
“Three months ago, I was heartbroken with the news of our beloved One Day at a Time’s cancellation.
“Today, I’m overwhelmed with joy to know the Alvarez family will live on.
“Thank you to my producing partner, Brent Miller, our incredibly talented co-showrunners, Mike Royce and Gloria Calderón Kellett, and of course, Sony, for never once giving up on the show, our actors or the possibility that a cable network could finally save a cancelled series that originated on a streaming service.
“And one last thank you to, Pop, for having the guts to be that first cable network. Even this I get to experience – at 96.”
Pop President Brad Schwartz said he “personally couldn’t believe it” when he found out Netflix was canceling the show.
He added:
“I really loved the show; it made me laugh and made me cry, and I also felt it was such an important show that dealt with love and inclusion and acceptance and diversity, a single mother head of household and socio economic issues.
“It was such a well constructed and beautiful show, and it had a lot of the same themes and a lot of the same emotion that Schitt’s Creek has.
“It felt that show belonged on Pop and on a network that also had Schitt’s Creek, so we started dreaming ‘what if’.”
It was announced back in March that Netflix had decided not to renew One Day At A Time for a fourth season.
A tweet from Netflix’s US account said at the time:
“We’ve made the very difficult decision not to renew One Day At A Time for a fourth season.
“The choice did not come easily — we spent several weeks trying to find a way to make another season work but in the end simply not enough people watched to justify another season.”
This is the first time that a Netflix series has found a new home after being cancelled by the streaming service.
