One Day At A Time is returning for a fourth season after being cancelled by Netflix

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One Day At A Time is officially returning for a fourth season - three months after it was cancelled by Netflix. The reboot of the classic 1975 sitcom follows Penelope Alvarez, a newly single Army veteran, as she and her Cuban-American family navigate the ups and downs of life. The show was picked up for a new season by Pop TV, with 13 new episodes expected to air in 2020. Executive producer Norman Lear said in a statement [via Deadline]:

“Three months ago, I was heartbroken with the news of our beloved One Day at a Time’s cancellation. “Today, I’m overwhelmed with joy to know the Alvarez family will live on. “Thank you to my producing partner, Brent Miller, our incredibly talented co-showrunners, Mike Royce and Gloria Calderón Kellett, and of course, Sony, for never once giving up on the show, our actors or the possibility that a cable network could finally save a cancelled series that originated on a streaming service. "And one last thank you to, Pop, for having the guts to be that first cable network. Even this I get to experience – at 96.”

Pop President Brad Schwartz said he "personally couldn't believe it" when he found out Netflix was canceling the show. He added:

“I really loved the show; it made me laugh and made me cry, and I also felt it was such an important show that dealt with love and inclusion and acceptance and diversity, a single mother head of household and socio economic issues. "It was such a well constructed and beautiful show, and it had a lot of the same themes and a lot of the same emotion that Schitt’s Creek has. "It felt that show belonged on Pop and on a network that also had Schitt’s Creek, so we started dreaming ‘what if’.”

It was announced back in March that Netflix had decided not to renew One Day At A Time for a fourth season. A tweet from Netflix's US account said at the time:

"We’ve made the very difficult decision not to renew One Day At A Time for a fourth season. "The choice did not come easily — we spent several weeks trying to find a way to make another season work but in the end simply not enough people watched to justify another season."

This is the first time that a Netflix series has found a new home after being cancelled by the streaming service.