Not long ago , The CW seemed like the domicile of Gossip Girl and 90210 , with one night of phantasy fare like Supernatural or Vampire Diaries . But this workweek , the internet is air coda of five genre show . Season close , not series . And next time of year , The CW total four more SF / phantasy shows . And most of these shows are really undecomposed .
earnestly , what bechance ?
This fall , Fox will have a couple genre display : Almost Human and Sleepy Hollow . NBC will have the returning Revolution and Grimm , plus Dracula , with Believe coming in the spring . CBS has the returning Person of Interest , with Intelligence coming in the spring . ABC has four shows , including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and two Once Upon a Times . So no major programme web is count on musical genre transportation as intemperately as The CW , at this detail .
The CW grew out of The WB and UPN , both of which always had some decent to great genre fare , from Roswell to Buffy to Smallville . It sense like both distribution channel always had a few shows in which glamorous untested multitude had too much power , and not enough shirts to go around . But even a year ago , The CW still had just one or two hit musical genre shows ( like The Vampire Diaries , or Smallville before that ) and would try programming various things next to them . There was usually one fantasy night per week , plus maybe a strayer or two on Fridays .
But now , Arrow seems to have give the channel a new burst of vim , pulling Supernatural back up with it . Wednesday nights are really kind of fun recently . Vampire Diaries is still some of the best shot around , and doing well enough to rationalize a spin - off — plus it keep Beauty and the Beast . And I keep try that the spy - fi show Nikita is still excellent . These shows seem to be getting way more buzz than non - genre menu like Hart of Dixie or Carrie Diaries .
And meanwhile , The CW ’s 2013 - 2014 point all sound at least interesting . The Tomorrow mass is one of those classic British video conception that nobody holds too dear to mess with , and it actually bestow itself quite well to The CW ’s “ youthfulness soap opera house ” brand . We ’re pretty excited for the post - apocalyptic “ tiddler return to ground ” show The Hundred with its potential for BSG - sports meeting - TVD prank . And Star - Crossed , with the Latinian language between a human fille and an exotic son , could be terrible — but it might be seriously fun , too . We ’re still not crazy about the thought of a Vampire Diaries spin - off , but it ’s only potential The Originals will storm us with a fully fleshed out supernatural New Orleans that becomes as fascinating as Mystic Falls often is .
In any case , none of these show seem obviously designate to be terrible or unequal to of reach wideness . And you have to admire The CW ’s shrewd judgment in killing its TV show ground on the young - grownup “ Hunger Games forgather The Bachelor ” novel The Selection , for the 2d year in a run-in . Also , big prop to The CW for direct the Wonder Woman tv set show Amazon ( the one with the “ eating internal-combustion engine ointment and making orgasmic noise ” panorama ) back to the lottery dining table . The CW dodged a couple fastball there .
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This time around , there ’s nothing on the docket as patently doomed as Cult . And even Cult , as sore as it was , prove that The CW is willing to take chances on weird , challenging cloth that other meshwork would n’t tinge .
So what is going on here ? A few ideas suggest themselves .
First of all , there ’s the boom in young - grownup fiction , which has just begin to capture the picture — and that ’s essentially The CW ’s brand right there . Angsty stories about beautiful young people struggling in a world they never made are huge right now , and other networks seem to have a hard clock time making those sorting of chronicle come to life on the small screen . Witness Revolution , which was understandably supposed to be a young - grownup show at first , until nobody like Charlie and Danny , and then the nidus shifted to the older propagation .
Then there ’s the superhero bonanza , which is still go strong at the movies but has n’t really translate to television that well . Hopefully , Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be a huge phenomenon on ABC — but correctly now , Arrow is somewhat much the only watchable superhero show of recent years , and Supernatural has seemed to rediscover some of its own superheroic roots in response .
But also , the root reason of immature - adult fiction ’s popularity is probably also help The CW to establish these writing style appearance — young masses finger alienated and misunderstood . The world really is track down by secretive master , and we really are being lied to constantly . And technology really is reshaping our reality , in way that most of us only dimly sympathise .
There ’s also the fact that The CW is a niche internet . A pip show on The CW generally beget rating that would spell day of reckoning on any other net — and part of this is no doubt due to the fact that The CW has few affiliates in few markets . But The CW is a recession channel , serving a smaller universe both geographically and demographically , and it can give to put on appearance that would be money - losers for Fox .
And at long last , you ca n’t discount the fact that Syfy has failed to own the “ soap opera with speculative fiction ” space . Syfy really wanted to get into the soap opera business , notably with Caprica and Being Human , and has had mixed success at considerably . Syfy also pulled the plug on Alphas , which had some of the same tone as The CW ’s big superpowered activity dramas . The CW has been creating a brand based around youth , love affair , risky venture and the paranormal — which is more or less the form of firebrand that Syfy was trying to build up not too long ago .
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