Natalie Brown plays Sophie, the talent agent struggling through life as a single mother.Natalie Brown plays Sophie, the talent agent struggling through life as a single mother. (CBC)

CBC has cancelled Sophie, the half-hour comedy about a single mother starring Natalie Brown.

The series has run two seasons on CBC-TV and was also picked up by U.S. network ABC for its family channel.

Brown plays Sophie, a talent agent who ended up a single mother in the first season after her boyfriend left her for her former best friend.

Created by Montreal studio Sphère Média Plus, the show is an adaptation of the successful francophone series Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin (The Highs and Lows of Sophie Paquin).

Jeff Keay, head of media relations for the English network, said the cancellation was unrelated to the programming and job cuts announced at CBC on Thursday.

The season finale of Sophie aired earlier this week.

CBC made the decision to cancel Sophie more than a month ago, he said. The show is running Monday evenings at 8.30 p.m.

On Thursday, CBC announced there would be fewer episodes of several other primetime shows, including This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Being Erica.