The CW Will Only Carry Over a ‘Minimal’ Number of Shows Into Fall 2023, Says Nexstar
The CW programming slate will look very different for the 2023-2024 season.
While the lineup is set for the current 2022-2023 season (premieres just started in October) and will be similar to what it’s been in recent years, things will change after that. “Over the course of the next year, we’re really working to develop our slate, which will then come online in the 2023-2024 broadcast season,” Nexstar executive vice president and chief financial officer Lee Ann Gliha said during an earnings call (via Variety). “We will have some carryover commitment for the CBS and the WBD programming in that year, but it’s minimal at that point.”
While Nexstar CEO Perry Sook has said that former parent companies Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery can offer up programming, they’re going to be looking at the numbers, “and there may be a couple of shows that distinguish themselves that we want to hold over into next year.”
It’s been previously reported since Nexstar acquired 75 percent ownership of The CW that freshman series Walker Independence and The Winchesters will not be receiving additional episode orders for their first seasons; both will have 13 episodes total. (Both are spinoffs of established CW hits, Walker and Supernatural.) And after the 2022-2023 season, it sounds likely that most of the shows that haven’t had final seasons announced — those two, five returning for this year (Walker, Superman & Lois, All American, All American Homecoming, and Kung Fu) and one new, midseason one (Gotham Knights) — won’t be back.
Riverdale and The Flash’s final seasons were both announced before Nexstar’s acquisition. They’re both a part of the midseason lineup. Since the acquisition, the final seasons for Nancy Drew (its fourth, coming in 2023 as well) and Stargirl (it’s third, ending in December) were also announced.
According to Sook, they’re aiming for a “broader audience” with both scripted and unscripted programming. And on the unscripted side, Whose Line Is It Anyway? will reportedly be ending after its 12th season. Original star Colin Mochrie tweeted on November 4, “in January, we shoot our final season.”
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Once those shows have gone, I will be deleting the CW app. Apparently CW doesn’t know or care about it’s audience.
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It is sad. After The Flash, S&L and Kung Fu are gone I can finally delete the CW app.
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Sad at the thought we might loose Superman and Lois. I know there's a season 3 to air but it's a show that deserved more. Was such a comfort show that really came at the right time. Love the main cast and that the show is really about doing the right thing and hope.
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I'd be surprised if some streaming network didn't pick up some of these established shows. Walker sounds like it would fit under Paramount or Disney.
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Didn't think it would hit me like this but so sad at the thought that we may lose Superman and Lois.
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Superman and Lois is so good. Tyler and Bitsie are phenomenal in the roles. It would be such a shame if they didn’t get to continue in the roles after season three airs.
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They are destroying the brand, trying to “broader” their audience by cutting everything and shifting to low cost over seas shows and live golf lmao. This company will be bankrupt soon. No one wants to see that crap. The CW always had such a good Niche and Imagination. RIP
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Ah, The CW, we knew thee well. You had a good run. Thanks to your new ungrateful, unappreciative, real moranic new owners, you will most likely DIE and fade into the sunset like The WB before you, sadly. You will be missed.
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You just walk or Nancy Drew and half the show that come out new every week lose 90% of your audience you want to keep all the stuff that has been on for years and doesn't have a new season that's just crazy no one's going to stick around you take Walker away Nancy Drew and the new series I will delete the app I won't stick around I know a lot of people won't
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Walker Independence is on of the best shows! Me star is making a great mistake not bringing it back!!
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