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Nancy Drew aired its last episode earlier this week, and one of The CW show’s executive producers has now revealed that the series almost didn’t get a proper series finale that wrapped storylines.
Starring Kennedy McMann, Scott Wolf, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim, Alex Saxon, and Riley Smith, the supernatural drama series follows amateur detective Nancy Drew (McMann) and her friends, aka the Drew Crew, as they solve mysteries.
EP Larry Teng said the following on his X account:
So… this could be long. From what I’ve read, the reaction to the series finale have been mostly positive. Now imagine if you watched that finale without us knowing it would be the last episode of #NancyDrew ever. Because that’s what almost happened.
— Larry Teng (@larryteng) August 24, 2023
He also spoke about the cancelled CW series in a recent interview with EW:
“We didn’t get the official word until we were filming episode 10 or right before that. There were a lot of ideas that were in place already but we had to figure out how to fit them into the existing season 4 storyline in the remaining episodes we had left. It was a bit of a jigsaw puzzle and the writers did a tremendous job making it all work.
We definitely felt like there were more episodes that we could have done that we wanted to do.
There were a lot more stories we wanted to tell that unfortunately we won’t get to but we’re really happy with how this all turned out.”
What do you think? Are you happy with how Nancy Drew ended? Did you want to see a fifth season of the series on the CW?
I enjoyed the show the actors are great and so good to see young actors. The CW used to be more entertaining but they keep canceling all the good shows so maybe they will just disappear like many of the programing.
I love Nancy Drew wish they
would have had a 5th season they are canceling all the good shows for either the British shows or reality shows that sucks.
Don’t worry they are probably going to get rid of the British/Australian shows as well. They will just end up airing those trashy reality series in the end. These companies like shooting themselves in the foot and then wondering why they are bleeding customers.
I thought they did a good job on the finale but yes, I would have liked another season.
Nexstar has destroyed the CW. I will be watching just 2 shows in 2024. Once Nexstar cancels them I am done with the CW. The rats leaving the sinking ship.
I liked the show. CW has cancelled so many of their shows…. What kind of programs are you going to bring if you didn’t like any of these???? I’m so sick of all those reality shows… I can’t sit through a whole hour or even half hour of them…..
The show was unwatchable. The plots were predictable and outlandish. I hung in for 3 seasons and I really wanted this show to succeed. It could have been a new Supernatural. Too bad.
I didn’t want it to end.
If the show had been on any other network, they could use the excuse “we had no idea we were being cancelled”.
But this is CW. A network that cancelled 80% of its programming at the end of the previous season, and had already announced that most of the remaining shows would be given one more season to wrap things up.
Did they think they were somehow immune to this? Not a lot of sympathy FROM the Devil for these guys.