#cwtv.com

[jahmeelahlamb]

Yesterday, while watching Bunheads, I had an opportunity to speak with the creator Amy Sherman Palladion. She gave me this juicy tidbit that would have been exposed if the show would have carried over into the next season. Humble only wanted Michelle as a companion for his mother. He knew that she was an old showgirl and her days were numbered. The other thing that we spoke about was the relationship brewing between Sasha and Melanie. Will they, won't they type vibe. She went on to say that they did try to cast a black girl but none of them seemed to fit. Most of the girls agreed that they had done so many solos that dancing in a group was harder than they expected. Well, from a fan that knew that Freeform was not your home, we wished that after Gilmore Girls your home would have been The CW.

[televisionpromos]

Walker 4x13 "See You Sometime" Promo (Series Finale) - Walker tries to make up for lost time and wants to be what Geri deserves. Cassie and Trey have their final interviews for the lieutenant position. Captain James advises Cassie and Trey. Stella discusses with Liam what she may want for her future. Bonham and Abby admit to each other what they really want for the next phase of their lives. August's graduation brings everyone together to celebrate. The episode was written by Anna Fricke and Blythe Ann Johnson and directed by Steve Robin. Original airdate 6/26/2024. Every episode of WALKER will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required.

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https://tvline.com/news/barons-cancelled-the-cw-australian-surfing-drama-season-2-1235003782/

This news will come as a major bummer to fans of the Australian surfing drama Barons: The CW has pulled it from the primetime schedule after four episodes, TVLine has confirmed. Repeats of Nancy Drew will take over the Mondays at 9/8c time slot, effective next week. After airing last year in Australia, Barons began airing on The CW on May 29, debuting to 179,000 total viewers and a 0.0 demo rating. Since then, its audience has fallen as low as 124K, and most recently hit 157K. (The CW’s original plan was to run the full eight-episode season; all eight episodes will still be available to stream on the CW app and cwtv.com.) Its Monday lead-in, the similarly acquired The Rising, debuted to 421K and has seen its audience dip each week, most recently to 287K.

I think a big problem is they aren't really advertising. I know that's additional costs out the door but if you don't advertise then you're wasting money on shows that no one is going to watch... because they don't know they exist

I hadn't heard of The Rising until just a week or two ago and only incidentally found out about it because it was mentioned in an article about something else (maybe ratings? I don't even remember). And I hadn't heard of Barons at all until today. And I watch S&L so I should have seen something...

I know they want cheap programming and are trying to cut costs everywhere, but if you aquire a bunch of cheap shows that no one watches then you aren't really "saving money", you're throwing money out with each unwatched show that I'm sure is not hitting ROI's for advertisers.

If it weren't for Superman & Lois' strong numbers, I would say this was due to other things like the summer season or viewers complete dismissal of the CW as a dying network (and it may still be some of that), but yeah, it seems like even the CW has no confidence in it's acquired shows. I'm guessing they bought the summer shows just to have something to air (and even that didn't work). It will be interesting to see how hard they go on advertising when the new season comes around and they have more stakes into some of the acquired shows.

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2024.11.04

Monday, November 4th:

(streaming weekly): Whitstable Pearl (AcornTV), Inspector Ellis (AcornTV, limited series premiere)

(hour 1): 9-1-1: Lone Star (FOX), The Neighborhood (CBS) / . / Poppa's House (CBS), Superman & Lois (theCW), Special Ops: Lioness (SHO), The Voice (NBC, 2hrs), Holiday Baking Championship (FOOD, season 11 opener, 2hrs)

(hour 2): Rescue: Hi-Surf (FOX), NCIS (CBS), My Brilliant Friend (HBO), The Voice (NBC, contd), Holiday Baking Championship (FOOD, contd), "Driving the Vote" (theCW, election special)

(hour 3): What We Do In The Shadows (FX, ~40mins), NCIS: Origins (CBS), American Dad! (TBS), "The 2024 SNL Election Special" (NBC, political comedy clips)

(hour 4 - latenight): The Daily Show (COM, host TBA, *not Jon Stewart)

[preempted, returning next week: Murdoch Mysteries (OVAtion), Brilliant Minds (NBC) ]

[*other notes: The Wranglers (theCW) has been moved online, all 8 eps, CWTV.com and theCW app; The Daily Show (COM, will be hosted by Jon Stewart tomorrow night for extended election special.]

[juanabaloo]

if you're annoyed at how The CW streaming / app (like on Roku) keeps crashing, you can watch the same stuff on cwtv.com !!!

(in the USA as of June 2024 The CW is the only official way to stream The Dollhouse series for free)

[webseriesviral]

Can Cancelled ‘FBoy Island’ Work on New Network? Season two of reality show FBoy Islan... #movie quote #movies #movie line #movie line #movie scenes #cinema #movie stills #film quotes #film edit #vintage #movie scenes #love quotes #life quotes #positive quotes #vintage #retro #quote #quotes #sayings #cinematography

[brucekanes]

that's a wrap on batwoman lbing, i had a hell of a time waking up at 3 am every monday to catch the live, but i probably won't do it again 😂 fantastic season though, totally worth it

[positivexcellence]

Mark Pedowitz Saved The CW. As He Exits the Network, Greg Berlanti and Jared Padalecki Reflect on the Exec’s Legacy

When Mark Pedowitz first joined The CW as head of the network in 2011, he told “Supernatural” star Jared Padalecki that he was a fan of the series (which was then in its sixth season) and had seen every episode. At first, Padalecki assumed that Pedowitz’s comments were the kind of niceties that an incoming network president is supposed to say to their series stars.

“I didn’t think he was lying,” Padalecki said. “But I thought he was at least being kind. Maybe he hadn’t caught up yet or had seen two episodes. He was certainly supportive and friendly. But I came to find out, as the months and years progressed, that he actually was a big fan of Supernatural and had seen every single episode… When we talked this weekend, he said that he has seen every single episode of every show that he was president of, and will continue to watch every episode of every show.  And I believe him. He hasn’t lied to me ever.”

As Pedowitz prepares to depart The CW after more than a decade at the helm (and following Nexstar’s acquisition of the network from longtime joint partners CBS and Warner Bros.), producers, stars and execs are all repeating the same four words: “End of an era.”

“He is a fan of great television and stories,” said megaproducer Greg Berlanti, whose tremendous CW output has included “The Flash,” “All-American” and “Riverdale.” “He’ll watch every episode, he’ll give you know every kind of note, and he wants to argue and debate things. He represents to me that legacy of network heads that love TV. He was always having to do more with less and navigate two different boards. And he still figured out a way to connect with the audience. A whole generation have now grown up watching all of these CW shows.”

Pedowitz wasn’t there at the birth of the CW, but he kept the network alive and thriving over the past 11 years thanks to the kind of crafty dealmaking that has been a hallmark of his career — including during his lengthy tenure at Disney/ABC.

At ABC, he was created business templates that helped evolve the way deals were made between networks and studios. He did the same at the CW, starting with the network’s landmark digital streaming deal in 2011 — in which the network, in concert with parents CBS and Warner Bros., struck a pact with Netflix for post-season access to The CW shows. That helped give The CW a new lease on life, by making it even more worthwhile for CBS’ and Warner Bros.’ studios to produce series for the network.

But it was also a tremendous factor in the growth and success of Netflix. When that deal came up for renewal in 2016, Netflix was willing to pay even more to maintain domestic SVOD rights to the CW’s output, which at that time had become even more successful under Pedowitz, growing to include a lineup of DC Comics-branded superhero shows, notably “The Flash” and “Arrow,” and buzzy critical darlings “Jane the Virgin” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”

The deal was ultimately valued at more than $1 billion, and that digital strategy helped turn series like “All American” and “Riverdale” into hits, thanks to their exposure on Netflix. The CW’s then-parents ended the deal in 2019 as they launched their own streaming services.

With the end of the Netflix arrangement (and a previous pact with Hulu), Pedowitz also eventually secured full in-season digital rights to all new CW scripted series for its The CW app and CWTV.com website.

In growing the CW, Pedowitz increased the network’s programming output, including more original scripted series, international acquisitions and unscripted series and specials. That led to finally programming a full seven nights a week, restoring Sunday in 2018 and adding Saturday for the first time in 2021. And although Pedowitz remained frustrated at the Television Academy’s lack of Emmy attention for the CW, the network was honored elsewhere, including an AFI Award, Peabody and Golden Globe (via star Gina Rodriguez) for “Jane the Virgin,” and Golden Globe and Critics Choice wins for “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star Rachel Bloom.

The CW under Pedowitz also earned high marks for its embrace of inclusive fare that represented people of color, the LGBTQ community and more. According to the network, last season around two-thirds of showrunners, writers and directors on The CW’s original scripted series were women and/or people of color, while nearly 50% of the series regulars were women and 57% were people of color. And according to GLAAD, The CW held the highest percentage of LGBTQ series regular characters among broadcasters for the fifth year in a row.

“If it was about a storyline or person’s life experience, or someone’s point of view, [Pedowitz] would say, ‘this is all I can bring to the table, please bring what you bring to the table,’” Berlanti said. “And he was encouraging that people be themselves, as long as they were hardworking and passionate. That was his goal to tell different kinds of stories. It was a great part of this character and a great part of the success.”

Pedowitz elicits fierce loyalty from his producers and stars, most of whom have a story similar to Padalecki’s of being wowed by how well exec kept close tabs of their shows and their lives. That’s a task for his underlings, they’d think — but Pedowitz not only watched every episode of every series on his network, but he’d spend several weeks every year visiting the shows’ sets (mostly in Vancouver).

“It goes a long way,” Berlanti said. “I can’t make a lot of sports analogies, because I don’t know a lot about sports. But I think of ‘Moneyball,’ and doing more with less, and figuring out ways to be just as successful with less. Great stories first, believing in younger showrunners or less experienced showrunners, diverse voices. He did that and built a real library of hits.”

Berlanti credited Pedowitz with saving “Supergirl,” which had originally premiered on CBS but couldn’t find an audience there, as well as “Black Lightning,” which had first been developed at Fox. And Berlanti said it was Pedowitz who inspired the creation of “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” by pointing out how that some of the other DC series’ ancillary characters deserved more time in the spotlight.

“The whole DC world that we had to build, really took a lot of trust and faith,” Berlanti said. “In a landscape where it was pretty much all about movies. I think the audience really could tell they treated them with the kind of support and sensibility of as important as any feature film stories are getting told in the same kind of universe.”

Padalecki said he knows, without a doubt, that “Supernatural” wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did — 15 seasons and 327 episodes — if it wasn’t for Pedowitz. “If we didn’t know that we had Mark, driving the winds that blew the sails on our little boat called ‘Supernatural,’ we would have been canceled [long before then],” he said. “But we knew that [Pedowitz] really believed in us and because he believed in us, it was the rocket fuel to whatever spark we had.

“We knew that one way or the other, he cared about us as human beings,” he added. “That was even more important. I’ve been public about my relationship with depression and anxiety. And whenever I talked to Mark, he was always more concerned about that than he was about the show. He was always more eager to hear if I was willing to talk about, was I ok?”

Ironically, The CW’s success in building hits that succeeded in streaming helped lay the foundation for CBS and Warner Bros. to fully embrace their own full-fledged streaming services — which, in turn, eventually led to their decision  to pull their majority stakes in the network and sell it to Nexstar (which owns most of The CW’s key affiliates, including WPIX New York and KTLA Los Angeles). Nexstar, which has a very different business model than CBS and Warner Bros., seeks to evolve the CW to make it a better fit for its station group, which will make it a different kind of network than it was under Pedowitz.  

Padalecki now stars in and executive produces “Walker” (now entering its third season on the CW) and is also an EP on the new prequel series “Walker: Independence.” Despite the ownership change and Pedowitz’s departure, he remains optimistic: “I am aware that the only constant in this life is change,” he said. “My only job is to do the best damn job I can do. And so let the chips fall where they may. If I do the best work I can do, and it doesn’t work out, then I can sleep soundly at night going, ‘well, I gave it my all.’”

Berlanti said he believed The CW remains “oceanfront property” because of the unique status of being a broadcast network. “It takes people longer times to find shows now, no matter where you are. It’s a valuable place to be one of those pit stops along the way,” he said.

Meanwhile, as Pedowitz dusts off his Pine Street Entertainment production shingle, Berlanti said that it was “my sincere hope is that I can keep working with him, wherever he goes and whatever he does next. Because he’s such an important part of my life. He’s been such a mentor to me.”

Variety

[jahmeelahlamb]

Lockers (Super Natural spinoff)

A tale of ghost stories based on true life events played by actors.

[televisionpromos]

Walker 4x12 "Letting Go" Promo - WHERE DO YOU FIT IN? - Geri is upset with Walker for not opening up to her. Meanwhile, Cassie, Trey and James conduct more interviews. Lastly, Bonham and Abby realize they both need to give a little with their plans for the future. Keegan Allen, Violet Brinson, and Kale Culley also star. The episode was written by Casey Fisher and Russel Friend and directed by Steve Robin. Original airdate 6/19/2024. Every episode of WALKER will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required.

[sammysnaughtygirl]

Walker Independence Episode 4 Spoilers: “Pax Romana”

WALKER: INDEPENDENCE Oct 6, 2022 Craig Byrne, Editor-In-Chief 0

“Pax Romana” is the title of the October 27 episode of Walker Independence and The CW has released a description with some spoilers for Episode 4! Here’s the write-up:

THE SHOW MUST GO ON – Abby (Kat McNamara) and Hoyt (Matt Barr) agree to run a seemingly mundane errand for Tom Davidson (Greg Hovanessian) that ends up exposing just how far the Davidson influence goes. Kate (Katie Findlay) uses the annual Founders Day festivities to disrupt the town’s balance of power while Kai (Lawrence Kao) gets an unexpected visitor from his past. Meanwhile, Lucia (Gabriela Quezada) and Calian (Justin Johnson Cortez) help each other navigate the pressures of their respective families. Sheelin Choksey directed the episode written by Nikki Renna (#104).  Original airdate 10/27/22. Every episode of WALKER INDEPENDENCE will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required. 

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Walker: Independence Episode 4: Pax Romana Description

THE SHOW MUST GO ON – Abby (Kat McNamara) and Hoyt (Matt Barr) agree to run a seemingly mundane errand for Tom Davidson (Greg Hovanessian) that ends up exposing just how far the Davidson influence goes. Kate (Katie Findlay) uses the annual Founders Day festivities to disrupt the town’s balance of power while Kai (Lawrence Kao) gets an unexpected visitor from his past. Meanwhile, Lucia (Gabriela Quezada) and Calian (Justin Johnson Cortez) help each other navigate the pressures of their respective families. Sheelin Choksey directed the episode written by Nikki Renna (#104). Original airdate 10/27/22. Every episode of WALKER INDEPENDENCE will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required.

Source: KSiteTV

[kindahoping4forever]

Don't forget tonight's Wango Tango event will be available to stream!

Set times haven't been announced as of yet but the show itself starts at 6 Pacific and will be streaming on the CW app and CWTV.com - audio from the show will also be simulcast on all iHeart radio stations and on the iHeartRadio app