This is something we don’t see often — reruns of an ongoing broadcast series airing concurrently on another broadcast network in primetime. Under a deal with Lionsgate, the CW has acquired the five existing seasons of ABC’s comedy series The Conners. Back-to-back repeats of the Roseanne spinoff will air Thursdays at 8:30-9:30 p.m., flanked by original episodes of Canadian comedy imports Son of a Critch at 8 and Children Ruin Everything at 9:30. The Conners, which airs Wednesdays on ABC, will begin its CW run Jan. 4 at 8:30 p.m. with the series’ first two episodes.
WOOD Grand Rapids, Mich.; KELO Sioux Falls, S.D.; and WMBB Panama City, Fla., will carry CW’s primetime entertainment and live sports programming, on subchannels.
Starting in 2024, The CW will add movies to its lineup on Sunday nights. The first will be The Wedding Planner, starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, which will premiere on the network Jan. 7. Movies are a new piece of The CW’s midseason schedule, which will also include Season 3 of Son of a Critch and the debut of the I Am docuseries.
Viewership for the fourth Republican debate fell since the last event, drawing more than 4 million for Nexstar’s NewsNation and its simulcast on The CW. But it was a record night for NewsNation, which drew 1.6 million viewers for its debate coverage, the largest audience in its history, according to Nielsen’s early fast national numbers. Another 2.5 million watched the simulcast on The CW, giving it its most watched program since 2018. In the 25-54 demo, NewsNation drew more than 350,000 viewers and The CW drew nearly 500,000. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
Perry Sook said the advertising recession and the recent dual Hollywood strikes represent headwinds to getting beyond losses at broadcast network.
Chelsea Handler will return to host next year’s Critics Choice Awards, set for Jan. 14 on The CW, the Critics Choice Association announced on Friday. The comedian hosted the annual awards show this year.
Exclusives
Two acquired series have gotten the ax at The CW. Canadian comedy Run The Burbs and British sitcom Everyone Else Burns have both been pulled from the schedule, the network has confirmed. They’ll be replaced for now with reruns of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Great American Joke Off. The news of Everyone Else Burns comes just a few weeks after The CW ordered a second season of the critically acclaimed apocalyptic family comedy following Channel 4’s renewal of the U.K. series in August.
The move, on Jan. 1, 2024, spells the end not only of national Spanish-language programming but also the region’s lone, locally produced TV newscast in Spanish.
The CW will become the official broadcast home of WWE NXT in a new five deal that will see the showcase for WWE’s up-and-coming stars move from USA Network in October of 2024. The networks will air 52 live weekly events throughout the season, making NXT the latest addition to the CW’s growing roster of live sports, including ACC football and basketball games airing Saturdays throughout the season, and LIV Golf.
The Nexstar-owned network is adding the Scripps-Owned former independent as an affiliate next Monday.
The final 10-episode season will air in 2024.
CW programming such as FBoy Island, The Spencer Sisters and Children Ruin Everything will no longer be seen on WADL Detroit after owner Adell Broadcasting dropped the Nexstar-owned network. “They didn’t pay, that’s really what it comes down to,” WADL owner Kevin Adell said Monday. “It’s always about the Benjamins, don’t ever forget it. Everything is always about the Benjamins.”
Cable News Network and CW Sports Programming will air on ReachTV’s network reaching over 50 million monthly viewers in hotels and airports nationwide.
The CW has picked up a second season of U.K. comedy Everyone Else Burns ahead of the show’s first season debuting on the U.S. broadcaster. Part of the CW’s acquisition-heavy fall slate, a programming lineup set by new owner Nexstar to avoid impacts of the now-ended writers strike and ongoing actors strike, Everyone Else Burns Season 1 originally aired on Channel 4 in the U.K. in January. It will premiere Thursday at 9:30 p.m. on the CW.
Wild Cards, starring Vanessa Morgan and Giacomo Gianniotti, and Sight Unseen are set to premiere next year.
Ryan Sharkey on Tuesday was appointed senior vice president, programming and content strategy for The CW. He will spearhead the strategic growth of The CW network as well as its […]
Independent media agency Known has been named media AOR for the CW Network, part of Nextstar Media Group. The appointment came without a formal review although the agency essentially auditioned for the role after piloting several campaigns on a project basis earlier this year. The timing is aligned to the CW’s new slate of programming which includes an increasing amount of sports, including ACC football and basketball, Inside The NFL, LIV Golf and more.
The CW Network has ordered 10 episodes of Crime Nation, a true-crime and justice anthology series that thrusts viewers into the world of real-life mysteries, cold cases and heart-stopping investigations. Set […]
The CW Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced a multi-year deal that renews affiliations across 35 markets, including 10 markets in which Sinclair provides sales and other services to a CW-affiliated station. In addition, beginning September 1, Sinclair will launch The CW on two new affiliate stations, KOMO, in Seattle, Washington, and WPNT, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both stations currently broadcast LIV Golf and will expand carriage to include the entire CW Programming offering. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. today announced that KAUT-TV, one of the company’s owned and operated television stations serving Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, will become an affiliate of The CW Network on September 1, 2023. KAUT-TV will begin carrying The CW’s primetime entertainment and live sports programming at that time.
The network adds a new affiliate with launch of CW programming on WPCH Atlanta.
The Nexstar station adds the network and two additional newscasts to its lineup beginning Sept. 1.
According to Larry Teng, who posted a thread to X on Thursday, no one at The CW gave anyone on the show a heads-up that Nancy Drew wasn’t being renewed for a fifth season, instead waiting until the studio reached out about a different matter to relay the unfortunate news.
Although it’s yet to be officially announced, as expected, Sinclair’s WPNT is poised to become Pittsburgh’s new CW affiliate. The station’s own online listings confirm the change in affiliation from My Network TV in primetime. CBS-owned WPCW will have its last day as a CW affiliate on Aug. 31 before going fully independent.
The CW Network has announced the three women looking for love and the 21 men competing for their affection on the all-new season of the hit unscripted franchise FBoy Island, […]
The CW has pushed back the premiere date for the anticipated eco-thriller series The Swarm, based on Frank Schätzing’s bestelling novel, from Game of Thrones exec producer Frank Doelger. The series now will premiere Sept. 12 at 9 p.m. ET, a week later than its initial Sept. 5 date.
The exec, who joined the Nexstar-owned network in 2022, is now engaged through 2027.
The multi-year agreement extends six Hearst TV station affiliations. In addition, the network adds a new affiliate with launch of CW programming on Hearst’s KQCA Sacramento, Calif.
Since its debut in 2006 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and CBS, The CW primarily served as an outlet for its parents’ studios. That’s all changing now that Nexstar has purchased a majority stake in the broadcaster, putting its streaming strategies up in the air.
The CW has pulled the Zac Efron travelogue after two episodes. The network also has jettisoned Fantastic Friends (starring Harry Potter twins James and Oliver Phelps) from its primetime lineup.
The network will broadcast all NASCAR Xfinity Series races starting in 2025: 33 race weekends per year.
Mark Critch, creator and star of the autobiographical coming-of-age comedy series Son of a Critch, is bringing his Newfoundland, Canada, export to U.S. TV screens via The CW this month. He’s hoping its nostalgic charms strike the same chord as The Wonder Years did in his own childhood. A full transcript of the conversation is included.
It will air games every Saturday throughout the seasons. Coverage kicks off Sept. 9 with Pitt football playing host to non-conference foe Cincinnati.
The CW and the Roku Channel have teamed up to announce their collaboration on Fight to Survive, an eight-episode survivalist competition. Hosted by American Ninja Warrior alum Akbar Gbajabiamila, the social experiment pits 17 competitors — including former Survivor, Alone, Naked and Afraid and American Ninja Warrior contestants — against each other in an attempt to survive 25 days on a remote tropical island while facing brutal conditions to win $250,000.
All American, The CW’s lone homegrown series originally set for the fall has been moved to midseason. The network confirmed the move on Wednesday after announcing premiere dates for the rest of its fall schedule. Also being pushed to midseason is 61st Street and the I am documentary film franchise.
