When the dust settled after a frantic day today, the CW was left with 11 original scripted series — new and returning — on tap for next season. That is down from 19 (including Stargirl whose future is unclear) picked up for the 2021-22 season last year.
While there is contraction across the board on linear networks, the drop at the CW is significant and follows years of expansion that resulted in the network adding two extra nights of original programing on Sundays and Saturdays and also years of the CW rubber-stamping its scripted portfolio with the vast majority of series automatically returning regardless of their ratings performance.
That all came to an end this year, ahead of the CW’s pending sale to Nexstar, which is expected to close in the next few weeks. Only the strongest ratings performers made the cut, and there were a slew of cancellations, including same painful ones...
While there is contraction across the board on linear networks, the drop at the CW is significant and follows years of expansion that resulted in the network adding two extra nights of original programing on Sundays and Saturdays and also years of the CW rubber-stamping its scripted portfolio with the vast majority of series automatically returning regardless of their ratings performance.
That all came to an end this year, ahead of the CW’s pending sale to Nexstar, which is expected to close in the next few weeks. Only the strongest ratings performers made the cut, and there were a slew of cancellations, including same painful ones...
- 5/13/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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