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Okay I tried to post a link to the article "The CW Renews ALL 11 Series For Next Season, Including Veterans ‘Supernatural’ & ‘The Vampire Diaries’", but I kept being told that deadline is 'banned for spam' for some reason?

But anyway, awesome news! I was starting to worry about iZombie as so many people seemed convinced that the ratings were pretty terrible and it was at risk, so I'm pleasantly surprised that we're getting a third season. And I'm still here for The Vampire Diaries of course! Although I do hope that we will get confirmation on whether the 8th season is going to be the last or not, I'm not sure that it needs a 9th or 10th season, but I definitely wouldn't have been ready to let it go after this season when there's been no real build-up to it being the end

It feels strange that I only watch two CW shows these days actually, I used to watch four or five of their shows, but I'm not as into the superhero shows that they've been focusing on lately I suppose. Lol I know I'm too old for them these days, but I can't help wishing that they would bring back at least one high school focused teen show to their schedule, the WB and CW used to be known for those shows after all! Still I suppose that you can't really blame them for sticking with the male demo instead, those shows do seem to do a lot better for them ratings-wise

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Wow -- iZombie is doing worse by quite a bit than Agent Carter and yet I keep hearing that Agent Carter's future is not assured because of poor ratings. I guess that's the difference between being on the CW and being on ABC. Anyway, good news -- iZombie and the 100 are the only CW shows I watch, but I'm happy they'll be back.

Yeah CW seem to be the opposite of Fox when it comes to how safe shows are with them! I've read that apparently they always want shows to have some closure because a big part of their business model is selling shows to Netflix, so they need to make sure that all of their shows get proper endings to tie them up or Netflix won't be interested, people being less inclined to binge-watch if a story is known to be incomplete. That was apparently the reasoning behind Nikita getting a final season of six episodes, even though most people were expecting it to be cancelled after ratings fell to 0.2

I wish that more networks would follow that model actually, it sucks when a show that you really cared about ends with no closure

Edited 2016-03-12 12:32 (UTC)