CBS, WB give CW a vote of confidence

[Sawyer]

Corp's right. Ackles and Padalecki can't act. They are just pretty. So yeah, I'm with on hating both leads.

Fail. Have you ever really watched the show, because I really dont think you did.

 

[Sawyer]

That's pretty much my CW viewing list.

Your so right. There are other aspects of the show I like, but without Sophia Bush, it would not even be on my radar.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Fail. Have you ever really watched the show, because I really dont think you did.

I have watched the show multiple times. Through the run of the show when there was nothing on. I can not get into it. And in each episode...all I saw was two pretty boys fighting monsters. They were as wooden as Tom Welling.

 

[Sawyer]

I have watched the show multiple times. Through the run of the show when there was nothing on. I can not get into it. And in each episode...all I saw was two pretty boys fighting monsters. They were as wooden as Tom Welling.

..........

 

[Cmill216]

...all I saw was two pretty boys fighting monsters.

Then you weren't watching Supernatural.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Well, the Chicago market isn't doing the CW any favors this season. The premiere of 90210 last night was preempted for the Cubs game and while I had no interest in watching 90210 and love the Cubs, I still found it a huge disservice to the network. There are a number of channels to put the Cubs on, don't preempt the premiere of the networks biggest new show, plus the game went long so even people that TiVo'd the show so the didn't have to stay up till 12:30 watching it missed probably an hour. Was looking ahead to next week and the show's gonna be preempted for baseball again. Chicago's the third biggest market in the US and this show is already gonna be handicapped here. It's like CBS shows on Sunday are always screwed up because of football and the execs wonder why ratings are disappointing.

 

[GL1]

Honestly... when they reformatted Veronica Mars... a great popular GOOD show, I knew that CW, and its leadership, were full of bunk. They haven't made any improvement so far. As an intelligent melanin-enriched man of moderate financial stability, its resoundingly clear that CW is not interested in my viewership. I won't force it upon them.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Honestly... when they reformatted Veronica Mars... a great popular GOOD show, I knew that CW, and its leadership, were full of bunk. They haven't made any improvement so far. As an intelligent melanin-enriched man of moderate financial stability, its resoundingly clear that CW is not interested in my viewership. I won't force it upon them.

There's your problem right there.

 

[Phatman]

Honestly... when they reformatted Veronica Mars... a great popular GOOD show, I knew that CW, and its leadership, were full of bunk. They haven't made any improvement so far. As an intelligent melanin-enriched man of moderate financial stability, its resoundingly clear that CW is not interested in my viewership. I won't force it upon them.

Yeah it is sad Dawn (Dumb) Ostroff has phased out so many Black shows and has no interest in developing them. Back in the days of the WB and UPN there was always something for Black viewers to watch. The Wayans, Jamie Foxx, Steve Harvey, Sister, Sister, Girlfriends and even the lesser shows like Malcolm & Eddie. They're losing out on thirteen million viewers a week to gain what? three millon viewers a week at best wit this lifetime crap.

With Smallville ending this will be my last year for watching the CW. Scratch that. I'll download the eps or buy em' on DVD.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

This Dawn Ostroff woman seems stupid and hell and doens't know how to run a network to save her damn life.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I watch Supernatural, Reaper, One Tree Hill, and Smallville (as watered down and boring as it may occasionally be now).

Honestly, the network needs to grow a pair. It's all girly shows and crap, crap, crap reality shows.

I watch all those shows you mentioned but OTH but i agree all these stupid girly shows and realiy shows must end!

I mean does anyone really care about america's next top model?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

My cousin watches it religiously.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Then maybe they need to go rehab for crappy reality shows.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Believe me, I don't understand it any better than you. I watched an episode with her and wanted to shoot myself.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I'll watch reality shows like that, just to see the idiotic model girls ***** at one another. A good ***** fight is entertaining.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's just irritating to me.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

it's like none of these models even go any where after they win.


That show is just as bas as I love New York or any of the "I Love" shows.

 

[Superfreak]

what Dawn Ostroff doesn't seem to fully realize that when you're running what's supposed to be a major broadcast TV network (to compete with CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX)

this statement gave me a giggle... has the 'WB' channel ever qualified to compete with those 4?

 

[Prison Mike]

this statement gave me a giggle... has the 'WB' channel ever qualified to compete with those 4?

nope. it was never taken as seriously as those 4.

 

[Docker2.0]

At this rate, Smallville and Supernatural will be done this year so there'd be no reason for the existance of the CW. Especially after they freakin gave 4kids their Saturday morning block! The network is so dead to me!

 

[Phatman]

I'm hoping CW dies in a year and it goes back to local programming here in New York. WPIX was the joint back in the day when it was independent. If they went independent, they might run Smallville reruns or Supernatural or reaper could go into syndication like Star Trek. Those shows would probably grow their audiences in a syndicated market.

 

[MagicPrime]

if CW Tanks i really hope Supernatural goes into Syndication. Supernatural is probably my favorite show on TV right now. Between that and Venture Bros.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

From a business standpoint, CW is rotten from the top down. When the merger occurred, instead of taking the obvious, experienced choice in Barry Meyer from WB, who did such a good job with WB's lineup (along with Barry Levin), Les Moonves insisted for some reason that they promote the head of his UPN, Dawn Ostroff.

Ostroff, mind you, had minimal successes in finding new programming for UPN before the merger. Most of their successes at the time like Smackdown, Enterprise, Veronica Mars, etc. had pre-dated her there. Her claim to fame was basically America's Next Top Model. Everybody hates Chris pretty much had to be forced on her from what I've heard from people who work at our affiliate in town here.

As expected her record for finding new programming since the CW merger has been absolutely terrible. Every new show they launched their first season was cancelled. Last year only Reaper, who is a midseason replacement this year (and also allegedley had to pushed down her throar), and the horrid Gossip Girl, who for some unknown reason was able to hang on, survived. Aliens in America anyone?

Her problem is that she doesnt seem to know her own Network's target demo. Three of the most successful shows, Smallville, Supernatural, and Smackdown, were all targeted at 18-49 year old male viewers, and all did very well in that demo. Smackdown is now gone for some unknown reason. Smallville has been milked to death and will likely end this year. Supernatural, which is VERY under-rated as a show, will likely follow since it gets zero promotion from the Network, and struggles on a tough ratings night.

What are they left with? They've groomed no replacement to keep the loyal Smallville audience watching after it ends. (Moonves was the one actually responsible for eighty-sixing the Aquaman series in 2006 that had over-whelmingly positive pre-screenings at WB as he "didnt want anymore superhero shows.") Half of Supernatural's audience was likely spill-over from Smallville airing before it, so I think those two go out together no matter what. And how much does even One Tree Hill have left at this point? Pretty much the WB carry-over shows from the merger, save Smackdown and ANTM, have kept the Network alive the past 2 seasons.

Even in the face of that, all Ostroff has done is go out and greenlight more of the same crap like "90210," which will die a quick death once the novelty and nostalgia wear off in a few weeks, and people realize at its core its the same show as Gossip Girl, Privileged, etc. Everything she does seems to be in the mold of ANTM and involves well to do, white females being catty with one another.

 

[Cmill216]

^ 6 paragraphs of truth.

 

[Manic]

Ostroff's targetting of a mainly female audience would be just fine if The CW was a cable network, but this ia broadcast network, and it looks like the CW is going to be lacking any kind of diversity in its programming in the future.