The TV landscape offers up more viewing options than ever before, but that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye to our favorite shows. Sadly, cancellations are inevitable, and the list of shows ending in 2020 is already extensive. On the upside, networks and streamers alike are getting better about ending shows properly instead of leaving viewers with cliffhangers and maddeningly unresolved love triangles to deal with. That means long-running shows like Supernatural and Arrow, as well as newer series like Netflix's Trinkets, all will be given a chance to go out on their own terms — and give their fans the last episode they deserve.
Whether a show's been on TV for 15 years or just one, here's hoping this list gives you plenty of time to prepare for all the grand finales coming your way in 2020.
After three seasons of dealing with an unending stream of tragedies, Clay and his classmates graduate in the fourth and final season of 13 Reasons Why. Season four included the disappearance of a football player as the students of Liberty High solve one more mystery before they can start the next chapter of their lives.Netflix announced in April 2019 that season four will include the disappearance of a football player, so it looks like the students of Liberty High have one more mystery to solve before they can start the next chapter of their lives.
The CW's long-running sci-fi drama The 100 ended with season seven. And as sad as that news is, it's also weirdly perfect, since the show ended with episode 100.
Not even Anne Shirley's optimism could stop Netflix's three-season curse. Anne With an E's third season was also its last.
What will the Arrowverse be like without Arrow? The CW's DC universe said goodbye to Oliver Queen after eight seasons in early 2020.
Blindspot will ended with its fifth season in July of this year, solving all of its lingering mysteries.
Netflix's critically acclaimed BoJack Horseman surprised viewers with its depth and creativity for six seasons, but this year, the titular former '90s star reached the end of his journey.
Corporate, Comedy Central's under-the-radar sitcom about the dark side of working for a big business, may be little watched, but it's so good that season two has a 100 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Now that season three (the show's last) has aired this year, it's the perfect time to see what all the fuss is about.
With 15 seasons worth of crimes solved, the Criminal Minds team earned their big sendoff. The show wrapped in February after a whopping 325 episodes.
Netflix's mysterious German series Dark came to a natural conclusion with season three. When the news broke in June, showrunner Baran bo Odar wrote on Instagram, "It is the final cycle of this great journey. We always had three season[s] in mind when we developed Dark."
Winchester University's students return from one more semester in Dear White People's fourth and final 10-episode season.
Say goodbye to the Lyon family. Hip-hop family drama Empire won't return for a seventh season.
Fresh Off the Boat's season six renewal was met with dismay by its star Constance Wu, who was hoping to join a different project, but there won't be any drama when ABC announces its Fall 2020-2021 lineup. The long-running comedy ended with season six.
The door to the Tanner-Fuller-Gibbler house closed for good in June of 2020 as the She-Wolf pack gave a final bow.
Hulu's Future Man was quietly doing its own thing for two seasons, but time ran out for this sci-fi comedy. The eight-episode third season concluded in April of 2020.
It was touch and go for a while, but Netflix finally released a fourth season of its female wrestling series, GLOW. As sad as it was to see the series come to an end, we're just glad this smart comedy went out on its own terms.
Amazon's Goliath ended with season four as Billy Bob Thorton's beleaguered lawyer Billy McBride tries his last case.
Forking terrible news: The series finale of NBC's brilliant The Good Place will aired on Jan. 30.
It felt like we waited for Homeland's final season forever, but season eight finally premiered in February.
How to Get Away With Murder ended with its sixth season and the finale was killer.
Netflix saved Lucifer from Fox's cancellation purgatory, but nothing lasts forever. The 16-episode fifth season was the show's last.
Back in May, CBS gave Madam Secretary fans good news and bad news. The good? The show had a last-minute pickup for season six. The bad? The 10-episode season marked the end of the series.
The 13-episode seventh season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiered Summer 2020 on ABC.
ABC's groundbreaking Modern Family spent 11 seasons chronicling the ups and downs of the extended Pritchett-Dunphy clan, but we had to say goodbye to the family for good in the series finale in May.
Ghost's story came to an end in the final season of Power in February of 2020.
Netflix's current trend of ending shows after three seasons continued with its postapocalyptic drama The Rain.
Schitt's Creek is the little show that could — over the course of six seasons, the comedy has earned itself a cult following and put the Pop TV channel on the map. And even though it said goodbye with a 14-episode final season beginning in January, no one can say this show didn't end in style.
Usually, the end of a show is bad news, but Starz's The Spanish Princess was never supposed to have a second season in the first place. The fact that this miniseries got an expanded run is something worth cheering about — even though it ended after its unexpected season two.
Star Wars devotees waited a long time for new episodes of Star Wars: The Clone War. The series ended way back in 2008, but Disney+ is revived it for a limited run.
The action-packed Strike Back is one of Cinemax's signature shows, but after seven seasons, the drama came to an end. The final season to delivered more explosive moments than a Fast and the Furious movie.
The road is finally running out for Sam and Dean. After 15 seasons of saving people and hunting things, Supernatural will conclude on November 19, 2020.
Amazon's UK coproduction Tin Star wrapped up its small-town mystery fast as the series ended after three seasons.
Netflix's shoplifting drama Trinkets sadly had a short run. Shortly after the first season finale, the streamer announced the show would be back for a second and final season in August 2020.
Vikings ended with season six, but don't get too upset: Netflix already ordered a 10-episode spinoff called Valhalla, per Entertainment Weekly.
Audience TV's series about a polyamorous relationship, You Me Her, aired its fifth and final season in June of 2020.