Awkward isn’t in a great place when we pick up with the high school comedy, similar to that of its heroine Jenna Hamilton, who threw away the relationship she worked so hard to get over a boy in her creative writing class. Throughout the first half of season three, Jenna continued to make decisions that, while understandably teenage and symptomatic of her insecurity, brought her likability down to dangerously low levels, something at least partially responsible for the lower ratings the first 10 episodes received. As a result of said lower ratings, Awkward has gone from potential scripted game-changer to having to lean on the next season of Snooki & JWOWW for support on what promises to be an intensely competitive night.

Helping the show is the fact that the network seems to be completely behind it, already ordering a fourth season and giving it said lead-in, so standing between the comedy and a return to the stability it enjoyed in its earlier life is the creative direction for the fall season. If the show figures out a way for Jenna’s journey to be realistically painful without diverging from what made it so captivating to begin with, and the new showrunners have a keen ear for the specific voice of the departing creator, there might still be quite a bit of life left in it.

Will you be watching the fall season of Awkward? Do you think that the show can bring Jenna back to being the person we rooted for at the beginning of the series? In your opinion, why has the show fallen in the ratings (and discussion at the pop culture water cooler)?

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Alberghini and Chessler most recently worked on the final season of The CW’s 90210 reboot. Other credits include 2008 ABC drama Cashmere Mafia, which starred Lucy Liu and Frances O’Connor, and Tori Spelling’s VH1 comedy So noTORIous, which lasted one season.

Awkward has been one of two scripted successes in MTV’s recent move into original scripted content. Along with Teen Wolf, the comedy has able to find a passionate following and critical success, in addition to its place on the pop culture radar. It’ll be interesting to see how (or if) the show noticeably changes under the new regime, considering that the first three seasons will have a very distinct voice that could be hard to replicate.

The change also comes at an awkward (heh) time for the show itself, as ratings weren’t the best during the first part of season three and fan anxiety about the direction the show is taking its main character only increased with each successive episode. There’s a chance that the new showrunners could recalibrate who Jenna Hamilton is and make her a more likable (or at least more understandably flawed) figure than she was during the first half of season three, something that might need to be done in order to stop the ratings bleeding and keep the show float for a while longer.

The second half of Awkward‘s third season, which began this past spring, will premiere sometime this October on MTV.

Will you be watching the fourth season of Awkward, knowing that the creator won’t be involved? How do you expect the show to change under Alberghini and Chessler’s watch? Should the fourth season be the final go-around for the series, as long as they’re against the idea of going the college route?

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When Awkward returns, Jenna Hamilton should be excited, as she has the boy of her dreams, two wonderful best friends, and the world at her feet. She’s going into her junior year of high school, which means that it won’t be long now before she can say goodbye to Sadie Saxton for good, but with that promise of a new beginning comes an inordinate amount of pressure. Aside from her typical load of schoolwork, Jenna has to begin making important decisions about her future; namely, who does she want to be? And how will she go about making that happen?

And what about that seemingly perfect relationship with Matty? After going back and forth (and back and forth and back…) between him and Jake, Jenna chose to be with the one who gave her butterflies, but during her time in relationship limbo, her friends might have moved on. With Tamara and Ming leaving their outsider status behind, Jenna now has to play catch up and hope that she doesn’t get left behind.

The supersized third season of Awkward premieres Tuesday, April 16th at 10:00. You can check out a trailer for the season here.

Are you a fan of Tegan and Sara? What do you expect the vibe to be for this season of Awkward? Do you think that Jenna will stay with Matty for the duration of season three?

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MTV has announced that the first half of Awkward‘s 20-episode third season will be premiering Tuesday, April 16th at 10:00. The show, which has earned the network critical raves, award nominations, and an audience outside its target demo, aired on Tuesdays during its first season before moving to Thursdays last season to join Snooki & JWoww. After putting up very strong numbers at 10:30, often beating its lead-in, it moves back to Tuesdays, this time to lead off the night and give a boost to Girl Code, which premieres the following week at 10:30.

Last season on Awkward, Jenna got exactly what she wanted. She’s now together with Matty, the guy of her dreams and the one she wants to try and make it work with, and on fairly good terms with her mother, so why is she so down on herself during season three? Her junior year should be about having fun, figuring out what she wants to do after high school, and growing more comfortable in her skin, but when school gets back in session, Ming and Tamara have blossomed socially in ways she hasn’t. The former trio of wannabes and wallflowers have splintered off, with Jenna watching her friends do everything that she wanted to do – and doing it without her. Seeing their growth makes Jenna put her relationship with Matty under the microscope; is she leaning on him too much and sacrificing personal growth in the process? Is there more to life than Matty McKibbin’s pretty face and the walls of Palos Hills High?

You can check out the third season trailer here, which includes new Tamara slang, a love interest for Ming, and one character having rumors spread about her being pregnant. Could they be true?

Are you glad to be moving away from how love triangle-centric season two was? How will we see Ming and Tamara’s new social butterfly status? Will Jenna stay with Matty for the entire season or will she decide to be single in order to find herself?

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