Nexstar Executives Warn The Purge Isn’t Over At The CW: 'A Couple Of Shows' May Survive Into Fall 2023
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Well, this is quite disheartening. It looks like The CW of today will be gone by next season, replaced with something completely unrecognizable. However, a “minimal” amount of current CW shows will be brought over to the 2023-24 TV season, multiple Nexstar executives told on Tuesday. The new network owners are hard at work on developing their own slate, according to EVP Lee Ann Gliha, and seem very displeased that they have any carryover programming.
The CW is a network that, in a year since the Supergirl finale, canceled the Legends of the Hidden Temple revival, the 4400 reboot, Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman, Naomi, the Charmed reboot, Legacies, Tom Swift, Roswell, New Mexico, and the Dynasty reboot preemptively in anticipation of the purchase, while also sending The Flash, Riverdale, and Nancy Drew to their final seasons. Stargirl was also revealed to have been canceled, and Whose Line Is It Anyway? is also going for one last go-round, though it’s unclear how much this is a factor in its conclusion.
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And there’s still the rest of the current schedule now endangered. Walker: Independence and The Winchesters didn’t receive back orders despite ratings success. If not getting a backorder isn’t supposed to mean cancellation as they had been assured, creating this small lifeboat makes those assurances hollow. While “minimal” doesn’t necessarily mean one each, how much bigger than two can it be before the description doesn’t match?
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said, “Warner and Paramount are not precluded from selling us programming. It’s just going to have to be a financial deal that we like.” It sounds very much like they’re going to be picky, so much so that TVLine was recommending the other remaining shows on the schedule, which includes Superman & Lois, Kung Fu, and the All American series yet-to-premiere Gotham Knights.
It will be hard to shift to a broader audience if it’s clearing off the variety in the shows already there. In the pursuit of getting the audiences all to come together for more shows that you’re producing, it’s probably not a good idea to alienate them and then stew in said alienation with no immediate replacement of which to speak, having been the cause of such sizable casualties, to begin with.
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