All good things come to an end and that seems to be happening to HGTV a bit too much this year as they’re set to lose their second hit television series as Chip and Joanna Gaines reveal the end of Fixer Upper following the upcoming season 5.
No, Fixer Upper wasn’t cancelled by HGTV, instead the Gaines family decided it was time to move along to the next station in life. Now that they’ve well established their business outside the realm of TV it looks like they’re ready to put their time there instead of in front of the camera.
It is with both sadness and expectation that we share the news that season 5 of Fixer Upper will be our last. While we are confident that this is the right choice for us, it has for sure not been an easy one to come to terms with. Our family has grown up alongside yours, and we have felt you rooting us on from the other side of the screen. How bittersweet to say goodbye to the very thing that introduced us all in the first place.
But this won’t be the immediate end for Fixer Upper. We’ve still got season 5 to look forward to later this year along with what’s apparently going to be a short lived run of their “Behind The Design” series. Maybe HGTV pushed them too thin with that second show. And why didn’t they just cut back their number of episodes if this was getting to be too much? Ahh well, lots of questions and few answers.
We are really, really proud of season 5. We laid it all on the field and didn’t hold anything back. We think it’s the perfect finale to this amazing journey we’ve been on. Season 5 begins in November and Behind the Design will follow shortly after. There’s so much good, new stuff coming your way!
Watch Joanna & Chip Gaines announce their decision to end Fixer Upper and read their full release here at MagnoliaMarket.com.
Do you plan to still tune in for the last season of Fixer Upper this winter? We’ll be watching and looking forward to seeing how the series closes out.
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Way to go Chip and Joanna. Seeing a family choosing their personal life over TV stardom is refreshing.