On March 19, a day before the season two finale for "That Girl Lay Lay," a Nickelodeon spokesperson told Deadline that the series would not be renewed for a third season.
The series, which follows an avatar from an app that becomes a real human, was renewed for a second season in January 2022. However, in September of that year, David A. Arnold, the showrunner and creator, died of natural causes at age 54.
On March 19, his wife, Julie Harkness Arnold, wrote on Instagram that the crew and cast wanted to finish the second season to complete their late showrunner's "vision."
"When David died…we lost our creator and our soul. He left us with scripts and ideas he had already written," she wrote. " I'm amazed by what happened next. In their immense pain, the crew-the cast dug deep and continued to create the vision that David had put in place."
"Thank you for seeing David's vision through," she added.