Osiris-Rex
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What decade is it? I'm pretty sure ratings mean very little in today's TV landscape.
Warner Bros. makes over $1 billion dollars from their DC related TV shows from things like the Netflix deals. That's almost as much as their superhero movies. Really the main purpose of the CW is to give a platform for first run episodes.
That's why the CW can renew shows like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which gets a season average 0.2 rating and an audience of around a half a million. While a ratings dependent network like CBS cancels a show like The Great Indoors, which had a season average of 1.4 and 7 million viewers. What Supergirl haters fail to realize by only concentrating on Supergirl's numbers is it is the 2nd highest rated show on their network. Basically they would have to wipe almost their entire slate clean if Supergirl's numbers aren't good enough for them. Because there is only one show on the CW that does just a little bit better.