Mistresses Renewed for Season 3
The forecast for Summer 2015 is steamy with a high chance of exposed man-torso.
ABC announced today that it has renewed its addictive sudser Mistresses for Season 3 — guaranteeing some resolution to the multiple cliffhangers faced by sisters Savi (Alyssa Milano) and Joss (Jes Macallan) and their close friends Karen (Yunjin Kim) and April (Rochelle Aytes) in the show’s sophomore finale.
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The renewal comes a month after the show’s Season 2 finale — which aired on Labor Day — drew 3.5 million total viewers and a 0.8 rating, dipping a tenth in the demo week-to-week, but down 10 and 27 percent from its freshman finisher (which did not air on a national holiday).
Like Seasons 1 and 2, Season 3 will consist of 13 episodes; it will air in Summer 2015.
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When we last saw the show’s four central protagonists, Joss had fled her wedding to nice-guy Scott and was locked in a steamy embrace with ex-brother-in-law Harry — while sister Savi unwittingly headed down to the beach where the verboten duo were crashing wave against shore (so to speak). Karen, meanwhile, learned she was HIV-negative — but then her doctor threw in a cryptic, “something else came up…” As for April, she’d learned that presumed-dead-but-secretly-on-the-lam-from-a-drug-kingpin ex-husband had been murdered (for real) — and then got the double whammy of having her pre-teen daughter Lucy learn the whole truth via local TV report. (Read the full recap here.)
Executive producer K.J. Steinberg told TVLine in August that the show’s writing staff “would never have written [the Season 2 finale] to be an ending to the series. We architected it for a Season 3. And we have hope that we will get one so we can continue to tell these stories and play out these dramas.”
Steinberg added that in the wake of Joss and Harry’s hookup, “Watching how the [four central] women are going to navigate it in terms of their friendship” would be “the centerpiece of Season 3.”
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“How long does it take for people to forgive after a betrayal or a transgression? And how does that path to forgiveness happen?” Steinberg wondered. “That’s what I think is the interesting part and that’s going to be the dramatic part to watch — if the forgiveness thing ever happens. And God knows if Joss will ever forgive herself.”
Excited about this renewal news? Any ideas for Season 3 story arcs? Hit the comments with your thoughts!
FANTASTIC!!!
I am happy that the show will return.
I still happy that Mistresses is returning next year. I wanted to know how the writer will handle the Savannah since the original actress decide to leave the series. I still wanted to know when season one /two will be release on DVD format.
I can’t wait to see how the writer will handle the decide to do with the Savannah. I got a feeling that the show will rewrite the character with a new actress. I just pray and hope that the second actress will be a dark hair. Good luck to the 3rd season.
I still remember how All My Children try to rehired a red hair actress to play Nina Courtlandt Warner on the show and the AMC hire was uproar over the fact and the producer have to make all kind of deal to get back the original actress to come to the role. It is irony that Peter Bergman who play Dr.Peter Warner is now more famous on Young and the Restless while like the second Dr. Peter Warner.
What no Alyssa Milano? Awe man. That’s as bad as Shonda Rhodes killing off Columbus Short. Man darn. I get it she had a baby. The mommy thing is cool, I wonder who will replace her. I know their Scott character is now on Y&R. I love seeing his sexy self EVERYDAY. LOL
Shonda Rhimes.
I feel sorry for the actor who replace Alyssa Milano in the role of Savannah. I know that he is playing Adam Newman on Y/R that he will still be able to play Scott on the show.
I can’t wait to see the return of Mistresses next year. I can’t wait to see how the writer will tie up all the loose end from second season.
I still happy that Mistresses will return in 2015. I can’t wait to see how the writer will answer all the loose end from the second season.
I hope that Scott don’t become the ex-boy friend from hell who wanted revenge for what his former girl friend did to him.
great
YAAASSSSSSS
YEAH!!!!!
So happy!! Started watching during the 2nd season and got hooked on this show harder than I expected to! Now I’ll go back and watch Season 1.
This is truly great news! Now, if we can keep all of the characters pregnancy-free for the next season, that would be ever better news ;) *here, she coughs* xo
I bet Karen is pregnant
In the original series one of them fights cancer. I’m certain it’s this, they don’t usually test for pregnancy unless they are looking for it specifically, and the nurses do that with urine. A blood pregnancy test is only done if urine comes up negative and they have strong reason to believe that’s a false neagtive, or to test pregnancy hormone levels (but the doc already knows you’re pregnant then). They do, however, check for leukemia and other cancer markers during workups. If she was due for a physical, that’d probably get tacked on.
I saw this coming…a show that can garner between 3-4 million during the summer is actually pretty solid.
Yay!!!!! My favorite summer addiction will be back
Pretty happy about it!
Can’t wait for another season of train wrecks & bad decision making :)
YAY!!!! More Mistresses!!! One of my summer guilty pleasures!!!
Great!
I can’t wait to see what happened in the Mistresses third season. I know that it will be a winner.
Yes! But Summer 2015 seems soooo far away!
I wish that ABC would release the show first two season on DVD. I can’t wait until the next 10th month before the show will return.
Yay! This is awesome news!
I am happy. I can’t wait to see what will happened in the third season. Will the four female finally get their act together and learn that they discover true love. As I read this note I suddenly know that they won’t discover true love because their true fan don’t want a happy ending .
So happy to hear!! Looking forward to it!
Some very good news indeed! Show should be hotter without trying to hide Miss Milano’s pregnancy. How will they write out the jackets and large bags that performed so well as supporting characters?
I lost count how many times that the show need to hide the fact that she is with child. The show didn’t wanted to become a mother on the show and the running joke who is the father.
Lol
I love the way the writer was hiding the fact that the actress with child but wanted to dress the fact. I lost count when she appear on the screen.
Lol supporting characters
WONDERFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTT
I so cannot wait for season 3!!! The end of season 2-was fabulous!–so glad Joss and Harry are together. The chemistry between them is off the charts!!! :-)
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS AWESOME SHOW!!!!!!!! Can’t wait for season 3!!!!!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU! Super excited
So freaking excited!
However I do not like the Joss and Harry hook up.
I agree! I wanted Harry and Savi back together and thought that Scott was darn good for Joss! I would like to see the good Dr. and her partner back together I thought they were a cute couple and that Daniel and April were a good couple! But I don’t see any happy endings in their future. I think that Savi will walk up and see Joss and Harry and that their relationship will now be destroyed because of it.
I absolutely love this show and hope there are many more seasons to come. I only wish there was a little more clarity before episodes subside. Obviously, we all love Mistresses and will continue watching.
OMG that is great news, love this show.. keep it coming
So excited
Thanks ABC
YEAH!! So happy they renewed.
I really want joss with Scott her and Harry is gross.
I agree
Me too, but soooo excited the show is coming back!!
Yes totally gross. Make it a day dream for Harry and by times he wakes up Joss and Scott are married.