Is CW trapped in the 90s?

[nx1701g]

So I happened to flip through the channels tonight and I came across the lineup for the CW (which had the only new programs of the night). I suddenly feel like I was transported back in time to the 1990s because their lineup was straight out of that era!

08:00: 90210
09:00: Melrose Place
10:00: Local program

Yeah I am really starting to agree that CW will be gone in a year. Are people actually watching these?

 

[DeVario]

You mean CW hasn't already went belly up?

 

[Sephiroth]

Melrose place? let me guess, the woman running the CW in in her mid 30's right?

 

[BigFoot]

The only good thing about The CW is Supernatural.

 

[nx1701g]

^ Smallville isn't bad.

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[Sephiroth]

^ Smallville isn't bad.

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smallville started allright, then season 3 happened

 

[tomalak301]

I wish I got my local affiliate back when UPN stole them. It's been far too long. I remember I would watch it all the time not just for TNG or DS9, but all the time. Now I never watch it.

 

[Skywalker]

The only good thing about The CW is Supernatural.

Aye. In a way I'm looking forward to the end of Season Five so that I don't have to watch the CW anymore.

Those bastards had better just let the show end on its own terms.

 

[CommodoreKong]

The only good thing about The CW is Supernatural.

Well Buffy did start airing in 1997.

Actually I just started watching Supernatural on DVD earlier this summer and it's gone from a decent show in the first season to a really amazing show in the third and fourth season (I feel season 3 had the best individual episodes, though season 4 has the strongest story arc in the series so far). I only have 2 episodes left in season 4 before season 5 starts Thursday.

 

[nx1701g]

The only good thing about The CW is Supernatural.

Aye. In a way I'm looking forward to the end of Season Five so that I don't have to watch the CW anymore.

Those bastards had better just let the show end on its own terms.

I thought it was already pretty much announced that they were being forced into a Sixth Season?

 

[Aragorn]

As the program director in charge of midseason replacements on the CW, I'm deeply offended by this thread! During the spring of 2010, tune into our station to watch our new shows -- Models Inc., Ally McBeal, Dawson's Creek, Felicity and Northern Exposure and tell me with a straight face that you've seen this all before.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Smallville is good but Supernatural is the better show. One Tree Hill isn't bad either. I've gotten into it over the summer and quite like it. It doesn't frustrate you as much as Smallville does.

 

[BigFoot]

It seems I've sparked a bit of a Supernatural vs. Smallville debate. So I just wanted to add that I do still watch Smallville and enjoy it to a degree. It's nowhere near as good as SPN though.

 

[Mr Light]

I just saw the most recent seasons of Smallville and Supernatural and I don't usually watch these shows. I thought Supernatural was pretty good (this was my first real exposure to it). I thought Smallville was by far the best season they ever did; no whiny pretentious Lex! no whiny pretentious Lana! Lois and Clark at the Daily Planet! Endless guest appearances by DC superheroes and villains! It was actually watchable.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

Supernatural is the only good thing about the CW IMO. Ending on its own terms? God, I hope so, but I fear that the CW will squeeze that extra, sixth season out of it since the two leads are contracted for a sixth. It's a shame, since the five season arc planned by the exec producer is such a complete story that builds to a natural crescendo. The showrunner's only contracted for five. At least we know that the two J's aren't like Welling, skywalker. They won't sign for additional seasons. They've said it plain and straightforward. We won't be going down the Smallville route. How the CW expects the new showrunner to top Mark Pellegrino as the devil, I don't know.

I thought it was already pretty much announced that they were being forced into a Sixth Season?

If the CW renews it. It almost makes me wish that Fringe would hurt the ratings just a little so that it can end on its own terms. They've got the 22 episode renewal for this season, and it's just right to tell the end of the story that Eric Kripke wants to tell. It's absurdly ridiculous all the shows that are in the timeslot now--SPN, Fringe, Grey's, CSI, and the Office on NBC. When they let SPN rerun in the earlier, 8:00 o'clock hour this summer (and last) the show always drew higher ratings in the earlier hour. But SPN will never get that cushier timeslot that protected Smallville all these seasons now. The Vampire Diaries gets it. And no, SPN would not have to tone down the gore. The family hour no longer exists. It isn't true.

Heck, Fringe's ratings may take a dive in the timeslot for all I know. It's never faced all that competition. I wonder how the premiere of the new Melrose Place fared last night.

 

[Frontier]

Sadly, ratings wise, the current direction CW is moving into - a female slanted youth audience - is one that's primarily ignored elsewhere, and as such, it's taking some actual hold. It's appealing to an otherwise ignored demographic, which is slowly translating into comparable success against UPNs attempts to appeal to ethnic audiences and WBs attempts to appeal to a broad spectrum like most networks.

I guess for teen girls and such, having anything entertainment wise directed at them is such an unusual thing, they'll put up with utter dreck just out of lack of other options.

 

[Warp Coil]

Well, the ratings for last night's season premiere of 90210 and series premiere of Melrose Place were pretty awful. Hopefully this is a sign that The CW will be put out of its misery soon.

 

[Aragorn]

It seems I've sparked a bit of a Supernatural vs. Smallville debate. So I just wanted to add that I do still watch Smallville and enjoy it to a degree. It's nowhere near as good as SPN though.

There is no debate, even if you watch Smallville. There's a reason those "Five minute Smallvile" posts were funny.

 

[Lindley]

There's a reason those "Five minute Smallvile" posts were funny.

To be fair, the "Five Minute" thing was funny regardless of the show in question.

 

[Top41]

Well, the ratings for last night's season premiere of 90210 and series premiere of Melrose Place were pretty awful. Hopefully this is a sign that The CW will be put out of its misery soon.

Melrose Place itself was pretty awful. Out of pure curiosity, I decided to watch it. Some of the cast is good (particularly the engaged couple and Stephanie Jacobsen), but the story was just blah and the characters not all that interesting.

I've long thought the problem with the CW is that it trends more towards UPN than the WB. The shows on the WB felt fresh and groundbreaking--and they were. Dawson's Creek, Buffy, Felicty, Smallville, Supernatural... these shows were doing something new, something fresh. That's not really true of anything on the CW right now, save Gossip Girl (which really is well written) and the WB holdover shows. Maybe The Vampire Diaries will be better than it looks, but really, did we need a new Melrose Place after the new 90210 proved to be disappointing?