The CW Falls apart! Runaway Cancelled!

[TVViewer]

Ehh remember last year when they said that joining The WB and UPN would be a great idea for both networks? Um nope not so much.

Most shows on The CW are down atleast 20% from last year, and this is with more local stations and advertising. Even worse The CW is doing worse than The WB did in Adults 18-34, the demo that the network is going after. Only 2 shows are up from last season, both of which aired on UPN.

With every show down from last year you think atleast the new shows will do well, nope! Runaway the new drama got UNDER 2 million viewers, most shows on cable get more on that!

The CW already tried to save some of their shows with a schedule change that swapped 2 nights, however that didn't work, both shows still got awful ratings.

Anywho, Runaway the new drama (and the only new drama on the network) has now been cancelled, The CW will fill Runaway's Sunday at 9:00PM slot with reruns.

Runaway started out on The CW Mondays at 9:00PM only it did so bad in that slot it was moved.

Runaway is the second show to be offically cancelled this season, with the first one being the CBS drama Smith. Funny because both shows are produced by CBS and air on CBS owned stations.

By the way Global TV had the rights to air Runaway, however they never aired it and now that it's cancelled I really can't see them airing it. Not really sure why Global picked up Runaway, they never had plans to air it anyway, maybe just so CHUM could not pick it up?

Anywho Runaway kinda reminds me of Sex Love and Secrets which aired on UPN last year and got awful ratings and was cancelled after 4 episodes (by the way Global also had the rights to that show and aired 2 episodes on CH before pulling it)

[TVViewer]

Sunday October 22nd on The CW

7:00PM: Smallville (RERUN)
8:00PM: 7th Heaven (ALL NEW)
9:00PM: America's Next Top Model (ENCORE)

Sunday October 29th on The CW

7:00PM: Supernatural (RERUN)
8:00PM: 7th Heaven (ALL NEW)
9:00PM: America's Next Top Model (ENCORE)

[someone]

I watched Runaway it wasnt horrible but then again it wasnt the greatest series ever. i could barley watch it though on monday i kept on flipping through the channels i thought it was cause of my short atention span but i guess not i guess its cause the show wasnt really much. As for the CW network in general what will happen if the ratings slide what could they do try another rebrand? umm go off the air i donno.

[TVViewer]

I think it would be cheaper for The CW to just shut down, The WB can work on making shows for other networks (which is where they make most of their money anyway) and CBS can work on their cable networks (by the way most of the CBS owned cable networks get better ratings than The CW)

[cslusarc]

CBS only owns the Showtime Newtorks now since it spun-off MTV Networks to VIACOM.

[cjkerry]

Global probably did buy it to keep it off of another network if they did have no intention of airing the show. This wouldn't be the first time that has happened. I don't recall what the show was but I know CTV purchased a US show last year precisely because they didn't want Global to get it. They had no intention of airing it but didn't want any competitors to air it either. If it wasn't for the fact that most people can get the US network feed [unless it is something like HBO] I think this type of behaviour should be illegal.

[TVViewer]

Yep I agree, Global didn't want CHUM (City TV/A Channel) to get the rights to Runaway, so they picked it up, they had no plans on airing it.

However the thing is Global ended up helping CHUM because Runaway did awful.

[TVViewer]

Sundays starting November 19th

7:00PM: Reba (RERUNS)
7:30PM: Reba (ALL NEW EPISODES)
8:00PM: 7th Heaven (ALL NEW EPISODES)
9:00PM: America's Next Top Model (ENCORES)

Well if The CW wanted to kill Reba (which they did) then they did a great job at doing it.

[cjkerry]

I am puzzled. How does scheduling reruns ahead of new episodes kill a show?

[robinepowell]

Maybe Reba will do well. Some said only two shows were doing well on the new CW, and they were both formerly UPN shows. By any chance is one of them Veronica Mars? I really hope so.