Lifetime cancels Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ‘The Client List’

Jennifer Love Hewitt’s massage therapist-turned-prostitute drama “The Client List� has been canceled by Lifetime after two seasons.

The show’s second season, which averaged 2.05 million viewers per episode, ended in June. However there had been a delay in making a decision about a third season.

Hewitt and Brian Hallisay, her costar and fiance, are expecting a baby in December. Hewitt’s pregnancy and how to handle the situation on-screen contributed to the delay, according to a report on Deadline. Some of the creative conflicts involved who would play the father of Hewitt’s character’s new child in the show.

Originally based on a true prostitution scandal in Texas in 2004, a Lifetime movie of the same name starred Hewitt. That 2010 film’s high ratings led to a regular series in 2012, in which Hewitt played a similar, but different, character.

The series had not been without controversy, with a group of licensed massage therapists protesting the series’ depiction of massage therapy and prostitution.

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