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[frelling_tralk]

The CW Fall Schedule has been announced

I know that this won't be popular with a lot of my flist, but meh I really feel like the CW have gotten O/T with superhero shows now, Friday is starting to look a bit out of place with the rest of the weeks line-up! :P I'm disappointed that there doesn't seem to be much space for anything else on their schedules at the moment, iZombie, The 100, Reign, and Riverdale are all being held back for mid-season. I assumed that iZombie had been picked up for 18 episodes again like last year, but apparently not?


And it's looking like The Good Wife spin-off is confirmed now CBS plans 'Good Wife' spinoff led by Christine Baranski

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[yourlibrarian]

I understand the feeling. I do like superhero shows but not only is it indeed taking over the CW schedule, but the bigger problem is that the writing is so pedestrian on these shows. We tried the two new shows this season and gave up on both halfway through, and finally dropped Arrow as well. A bunch of well written shows will keep me watching even if they are all about the same thing.

It makes sense financially though. Not only are these shows giving the CW visibility in a way they really struggled with for their first 5 years, but because they're WB shows, they're making more money from these than just the initial ratings.

I'm quite surprised they were willing to give CEG another season. That's really a novel show and gave them their first bit of attention from a major award, but I heard the ratings were dismal.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

And also all four of those shows are by the same man (Greg Berlanti), so inevitably they're going to have similar voices. It's not even a mixture of wildly different superhero shows like for example Gotham to go with The Flash, or Jessica Jones to go with Supergirl

It does make financial sense though, so I suppose we can't argue with that :( It's ironic looking because though because Smallville used to get fantastic ratings for the CW, especially when they had big event episodes with other superheroes, but they never had any time for that show. They moved it to Friday's, they refused to spin-off Arrow or Supergirl with the SV characters, back then they only valued the female demo and couldn't care less about SV's higher ratings...

And I've heard spec that they keep JTV and CEG because they're the only shows that bring them critical acclaim and golden globes, as opposed to their supernatural shows rarely getting awards recognition. It doesn't look like they're planning on investing in CEG long-term though if it's been moved to Friday nights?

[yourlibrarian]

I agree -- they had Smallville and SPN and didn't value either one. SPN is still around and now they're chock full of superheroes.

I thought the same thing when I saw that the Friday night slot, that they're cutting their losses with it. That way it stays on the schedule but it doesn't drag down ratings from higher lead-ins.