Last season, in preparation for being sold, The CW cancelled half of its scripted shows and announced that two others would be ending during the 2022-23 season. Nexstar, the network’s new owner, has indicated that The CW will be airing shows with smaller production budgets and/or acquired or syndicated series. This time around, The CW programs will depend on ratings and ad revenue more than ever before. How many shows will be cancelled or renewed during the 2022-23 season? Stay tuned.
CW shows this season (so far): 100 Days to Indy, All American, All American: Homecoming, Barons, Bump, Children Ruin Everything, The Chosen, Coroner, Criss Angel’s Magic with the Stars, DC’s Stargirl, Down to Earth with Zac Efron, Family Law, Fantastic Friends, FBoy Island, Fight to Survive, The Flash, Gotham Knights, The Great American Joke Off, Great Chocolate Showdown, Greatest Geek Year Ever, Kung Fu, Masters of Illusion, Moonshine, Nancy Drew, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Professionals, Recipe for Disaster, The Rising, Riverdale, Run the Burbs, Son of a Critch, Superman & Lois, Totally Weird and Funny, Walker, Walker: Independence, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Winchesters, and World’s Funniest Animals.
There’s lots of data that network execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series but ratings are the major ingredient. These 2022-23 charts will be updated daily, as new ratings data becomes available.
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Some notes about these charts:
These figures are updated automatically as new ratings are released. The averages are based on the final national numbers (live plus same-day viewing), unless marked with an asterisk (*). For technical reasons, I have to resort them manually. While these numbers don’t include further delayed or streaming viewing, they are a very good indicator of how a show is performing, especially when compared to others on the same channel. There can be other economic factors involved in a show’s fate, but typically the higher-rated series are renewed and the lower-rated ones are cancelled.
Keep in mind that the demo numbers are typically what’s most important to advertisers. Therefore, that’s how the networks measure success. Advertisers pay more for ad time on a show that has a higher demo rating. Older viewers also matter but younger viewers watch less traditional TV and are therefore harder to reach. Delayed viewing matters more and more these days (if commercials are watched) but live viewing is still advertisers’ ideal.
Demo numbers are typically reported using the 10ths decimal place (2.4, for example). In the averages, I’m using an extra decimal for easier ranking. The networks take into account when shows air on Fridays and Saturdays, nights when TV viewership is lower.
What do you think? Are you surprised by any of the ratings? Which 2022-23 shows should be doing better? Which one do you think will be cancelled next?
Son of a Crutch is best new show of the season. Canadian comedy starring Malcolm McDowell. Funnier version of Wonder Yeats.
Best show on the CW is The Chosen, hands down!!!!
Why cancel Tom Swift? Best new show, besides Kung Fu in 2021!!!!
I am a white male, and canceling these shows, I believe, is because of tough realities of the biggoted nature of this country! Both color and queerness seems to make people uncomfortable. If you knew you’re neighbors, you would see that the human race IS meant to have diversity!
Cw, is still owned 25% by cbs and wb, so a few shows were going to be held over, all American and spin off have streaming deals, Superman and walker are high rated with streaming deals, nexstar was only buying budget shows and cut the budgets on those to continue, just wasn’t going to happen, on top of that ratings were low,
The Chosen is awesome!! Thank you CW for adding it to the Sunday night lineup!!
The only thing left to watch on the CW is walker
cancel EVERYTHING and renew only SUPERMAN & LOIS
Love Walker Independence. Need a second season to continue to tell all the stories that need to be told. Great ensemble cast. Love Westerns. Grew up watching westerns.
Please unite to save Stargirl it was showing promise of greatness
The network is an a mess. How is it even still able to survive
Ratings are about the se as last season, if not higher for some shows, I liked old cw better, but new cheaper cw, is overall having a stronger summer than last year
The Flash is the best storyline love this show. Enjoy it look forward to seeing it every weekly one of my favorite shows on The CW. Smalville so good series better than other classic era tv .
How Truly messed up this is not work? they have over age teenagers still in University still fighting for the same Causes? How boring is that how repetitive is that how nuisance is that. Enough for doing this move on or prepare to have 0.00 ratings
Time to stick a fork in The CW. It’s done.
The cw is good for movies for occasions good shows walker superman and Louis and flash
The CW is known for smaller budgets, and the new owner has decided that isn’t enough. They are going to buy cheap content elsewhere.
Cancelled stargirl so stupid DC Comics ridiculous superhero drama . The Flash, Arrow, Smallville so good love it them rest is repeat of itself. Need end of era so sad about grow up with those shows. Won’t be same without it.