CW Plans Sunday Primetime Block for 2018-19 Season
http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/cw-sunday-primetime-block-1202698748/
SilverSurfer wrote:
CW Plans Sunday Primetime Block for 2018-19 Seasonhttp://variety.com/2018/tv/news/cw-sunday-primetime-block-1202698748/
this might become a little overkill :)
That's not really surprising. If they've got more than 10 hours of programming... why not?
Hopefully it means that we'll get "full" 22-episode seasons of Legends, iZombie, and Black Lightning. The CW scurrying around playing musical chairs on Mondays and Tuesdays is more irritating than anything.
I'm actually surprised this hasn't happened sooner since CW typically renews the majority of their shows but still continue to pick up more without having freed up space by cancelling, so they have more hours of TV and have a hard time finding space for them all and some are held for midseason and even later. This isn't even the first time they did this anyway, they tried about 10 years ago by leasing out Sundays to another company, but those shows only last about a month and everything was cancelled.
I actually wouldn't want full 22 episode seasons for Legends, iZombie (even though iZombie is one of my favorite shows from any network) or Black Lightning as I think they actually need to REDUCE the episode orders for the other Arrowverse shows and Supernatural. I think 18-20 episodes for any show, not just on CW, allows enough time to grow and flesh out plotlines without giving us all this filler we get. I'd say if anything adding Sunday should just be relieve the stress on the schedule due to having more hours of programming than they currently have hours to broadcast on. They could also add more support for summer series too.
Bwahhahahaha! Oh CW, you are cute. CBS Productions must have more low rated shows they want to push off to the little brother.
For how long are you Yanks planning to keep up with those poor crappy shows? Jeezz..... it is just too much.
As long as the Brits and others keep buying them to air overseas. :)
kevin87 wrote:
I'm actually surprised this hasn't happened sooner since CW typically renews the majority of their shows but still continue to pick up more without having freed up space by cancelling, so they have more hours of TV and have a hard time finding space for them all and some are held for midseason and even later. This isn't even the first time they did this anyway, they tried about 10 years ago by leasing out Sundays to another company, but those shows only last about a month and everything was cancelled.I actually wouldn't want full 22 episode seasons for Legends, iZombie (even though iZombie is one of my favorite shows from any network) or Black Lightning as I think they actually need to REDUCE the episode orders for the other Arrowverse shows and Supernatural. I think 18-20 episodes for any show, not just on CW, allows enough time to grow and flesh out plotlines without giving us all this filler we get. I'd say if anything adding Sunday should just be relieve the stress on the schedule due to having more hours of programming than they currently have hours to broadcast on. They could also add more support for summer series too.
Some shows could use shorter seasons, some shows could use longer ones. I'd rather see a 22-episode Legends season and shorter Arrow and Supernatural seasons. Rather than the opposite, which is what we get currently.
Part of it is just padding to make a season count, but I've seen 13-episode and 8-episode and 6-epiosde seasons with padding, too. Some folks thought Stranger Things was padded with S02E07. Terms like "killing the momentum" were tossed out.
It'd be nice if they at least aired them continually in the same day and timeslot, September through May. The fact that they're switching Supergirl, Legends, and iZombie in and out of the same date/time, within a two-month period, is just... weird.
They ordered 8 pilots this season. I don't think dynasty and black lightning will be cancelled (because of the netflix deal). They will need the space. It's not the first time they opened sundays, but it was atrocious and the ratings were bad.
Black Lightning won't be canceled because it actually brings in viewers; Dynasty can't say the same and any deals may not be enough to save it when its only pulling in 500,000 viewers. Cable shows do better. Similarly the CW won't be shortening seasons of shows like Supernatural that bring in a million plus for something like iZombie which again, barely pulls 600,000. Timeslot lottery on Monday night is a bit nutty; it has been done before just not with so many shows in the mix.
Sunday is a tough night. People are home and there's usually some sort of football airing somewhere. If CW wants to compete, they are going to have to move Supernatural, Supergirl, Flash something gets gets reasonable numbers to that night. They can't put CBS produced product in there and hope it succeeds, because it won't.
I quite like The CW, and while they do have a lot of superhero type shows now all of them are based on comics.
You can't really compare the CW's lower ratings/viewers vs the other networks, tho, as they have a lot less affiliates than the rest.
What's more interesting is comparing their rating vs previous years and with those numbers they keep improving from year to year.
Anyhow, it's two more hours of scripted TV, that's a good thing in my book.
LadyShelley wrote:
... Dynasty can't say the same and any deals may not be enough to save it when its only pulling in 500,000 viewers. ...
Moonves has been quoted as saying “A great recent example of the power of owning content is the new version of Dynasty that will premiere this fall on The CW. We own 100 percent of the show, and we’ve already licensed it to Netflix in 188 countries. … So this means ‘Dynasty’ is profitable before it even hits the air.” So, sadly, it looks like it will be sticking around.