Melissa & Joey: Fourth Season Renewal, More Season Three

ABC Family sure loves Melissa & Joey, their original sitcom. Season three isn’t set to debut until May 29th but they’ve already expanded their third season episode order and given the go-ahead for a fourth season.

Here are the details:


ABC FAMILY ADDS MORE LAUGHS WITH MORE “MELISSA & JOEY”

With Season 3 Back Order and Fourth Season Greenlight, Series Will Reach 100 Episodes

Burbank, CA (May 28, 2013) – ABC Family today announced the network has expanded the third season of its hit original comedy series, “Melissa & Joey,” as well as ordered a fourth season, making this the network’s first comedy to reach 100 episodes. The order comes prior to the third season premiere on ABC Family on Wednesday, May 29, from 8:00-8:30 p.m., ET/PT, leading into hit comedy “Baby Daddy.” The additional Season 3 episodes will air in 2014.

“One hundred episodes is a great accomplishment for any series, and we are thrilled to give ‘Melissa and Joey’ the opportunity to achieve this milestone, as they’ve delivered hundreds and hundreds of laughs over the seasons,” said Kate Juergens, Executive Vice President, Programming and Development and Chief Creative Officer, ABC Family.

Along with series stars Melissa Joan Hart, Joey Lawrence, Taylor Spreitler and Nick Robinson, the upcoming third season features such notable guest stars as Sterling Knight, Shannon Elizabeth, Trevor Donovan, Marla Sokoloff, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Jaime Pressly and Doris Roberts, who will be appearing in two episodes as Joe’s grandmother.

“Melissa and Joey” is executive-produced by Bob Young & David Kendall, Paula Hart, Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence. The series follows local politician and former wild child Mel Burke (Hart) who employs down on his luck “manny” Joe Longo (Lawrence) as she raises her teenaged niece (Spreitler) and nephew (Robinson). “Melissa & Joey” ranks as ABC Family’s highest comedy debut ever in Total Viewers, and its second season wrapped as the series best to date in several key demos, including Adults 18-49, Women 18-34 and Viewers 12-34.

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What do you think? Are you a fan of Melissa & Joey? Are you looking forward to seeing lots and lots of new episodes?

I've seen the show a few times its an OK show but its not really funny at all.

It's a cute show, nothing special, I like it, guess they might be airing it in the winter? 30 Episodes are a whole lot to air over the summer.

I liked this show in a way it reminds me of more throwback type show like the fresh prince and them were.

King Silva wrote:

Wow this will get 4 seasons?

Cable must renew anything.

Sitcoms are generally cheaper to make than Drama's and during the summer, Melissa & Joey performs pretty much up to par with some of ABC family's lower rated drama's. Especially last summer, when they paired with Baby Daddy, both shows performed really well, and Melissa & Joey reached new heights.

Keep in mind in Adults 18-19 On the big for the comedies performed average:
Last Man Standing 1.5 Average
The Neithbors 1.9 Average
Raising Hope 1.6 Average
The Mindy Project 1.6 Average
Parks & Recreation 1.6 Average
Community 1.1 Average

Both Melissa & Joey performed a 0.6 Average last season, both reaching heights of 0.7. Considering summer burn offs of Save Me(NBC) scored a 0.6 and The Goodwin games (Fox) 0.6 so far, I don't think Melissa & Joey is doing that bad, since it's performing on level with most Cable comedies like Men At Work, Sullivan & Sons, Cougar Town, Anger Management, Wilfred, It's Aways Sunny....., Archer. Workaholics, Awkward who all perform between 1.0 and 0.5 averages all season.