The Biggest Reasons Why The CW Sucks |
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mbaker
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With the fifth season of the CW just underway, lets look back at their biggest fumbles (or things most to whine about) thus far:
Canceling 'Everwood' Resurrecting '7th Heaven' for a lackluster 11th and final season 'Reba's final season treated badly Not enough promos for 'Smallville', and 'Supernatural' Canceling 'Veronica Mars' Canceling 'All of Us', 'Girlfriends', 'The Game', 'Everybody Hates Chris' (just about all urban related programming from UPN) Canceling 'Reaper' Having the Pussycat Dolls reality show replacing 'Veronica Mars' Treating 'Gossip Girl like 'the second coming' despite so-so ratings Poor treatment of shows they inherited from WB/UPN Replacing Kids WB! with 4Kids! The "young, rich, white girls with issues' station / focusing on the young women demo too much Using 'Vampire Diaries' as a 'Twilight' cash grab Green-lighting the 'Melrose Place' remake and keeping it on the air despite horrendous ratings Not picking the pilots of 'Aquaman' and 'Body Politic' The existence of such reality shows like 'High Society', and 'Fly Girls' The long time of having their shows on repeat Fulling their afternoon slots with talk shows, and judge shows Being beaten in the ratings by Univision and even some cable channels (e.g. ABC Family) and of course the handsdown #1 reason why The CW suck... Keeping Dawn Ostroff around |
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PitLoad413
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C'mon the CW a.k.a UPN, a.k.a the WB have always been sub-par in terms of programming. But I agree, they should consider demographics other than pretty white chicks with abandonment issues and that not everyone is a fan of the Pussyccat Doll/Vampire/Gossip Girl bandwagon. However, what do you expect from this network? It's not USA, TNT, or even TBS! This is the same networks that gambled with such timeless classics as "The Diary of Desmond Pfieffer" and "Shasta McNasty".
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TWCFan
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Who's Dawn Ostroff?
The CW makes struggling networks like NBC feel better about themselves. |
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Closing logos! Now that's something I can watch on TV.
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bunnyhead
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The only good thing on CW is Supernatural. By the way, they promo the hell outta Smallville during that show so I have to disagree with you on that one.
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MrTim
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Not enough promos for 'Smallville'
What?! They should have killed that (sorry sack of...) show YEARS ago...!
Canceling 'Everybody Hates Chris'
These things happen when the star of the show suddenly grows taller than the subject of the show....
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dp7
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Not a biggie, but the afternoon block on the CW is up to your local CW station, save for the Tyra show, which airs on the network. Here I get Maury and Judge Mathis around Tyra's show in the afternoon on my local CW station (most of the judge shows are on the FOX station here.) But I could imagine, depending on where you are, that your CW station might air a 'horror block' of Judge Judy, Judge Pirro, that new Nancy Grace judge show () and the Nate Berkus show before Tyra. I'd block the CW station from my TV if it had such a horrendous sydnication lineup! However, I agree with your rant about the CW network in general. The network seems to be very trashy. I don't watch the primetime network shows, but I've flipped by them enough to expect to see things that puts Jerry Springer's show to shame! |
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it sucks. period.
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bluenowait
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We've gotten to the point that their affiliates, even flagship affiliates, want to distance themselves from The CW. Take for example, New York's WPIX.
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mbaker
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Maybe then this kid might do something other than watch TV? I don't know, like go outside and play, maybe get some exercise? Or, god forbid, READ A BOOK?!?!?! On second thought, they'll probably watch the crappy TV and bitch about how nothing good is ever on and there's nothing to do... |
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TWCFan
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I don't even have a local CW station. It's just a "digital" over-the-air channel.
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dp7
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Same here in Washington: before after They do superimpose a little 'CW' logo besides the '50' during shows on the bottom right corner, but they don't show it in station promos, and they only refer to themselves as "DC 50." |
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bonesquat
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What is CW?!?!?!
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MrCleveland
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In a way...The CW always sucked!
The WB was better than UPN and The CW Combined! They should've called it The Weird Butt Network! |
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Thank God for kids who love Obscure Things.
Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007) |
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Speaking of "Butt"...my CW affiliate WBNX didn't even use the word 'butt' until it bought the WB in 1997, because it's pwned by The Cathedral of Tomorrow! And WBNX is the 3rd biggest CW Station in the Nation! |
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Thank God for kids who love Obscure Things.
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My CW channel also has distanced itself from the CW Brand it is now The CT WCCT-TV not one mention of the CW.
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miapia
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Plus they make since good shows like the circle
The tomorrow people ternova for one season leave the show off on a HUGE HUGE cliff hanger and then just cancel the show |
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Papa Lazarou
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^That's what they get for both ripping off a British show and making a Children's show into an adult show.
Honestly, once you've seen the REAL show, CW's "The Tomorrow People" is just embarrassingly bad. Both UK Versions of the show were highly entertaining even written as children/family shows. You can't take a storyline written for that audience and make it for a "post-watershed" audience. |
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The WB kicked ass! Michigan J Frog and Kids WB. What's not to like?
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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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The only channels I recognized in this entire topic are USA, TNT, and TBS. From the comments I consider myself fortunate.
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EEEEts All so REEEdEEEculous
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Papa Lazarou
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CW isn't carried by Dish as far as I know; I only know of it because some of the people I keep company with online and off don't have very good taste.
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crainbebo
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I miss The WB. That was a much better network than the CW. Millions of 90s/early 00s teens and young adults grew up with Dawson's Creek, 7th Heaven, Felicity and Charmed.
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Back after a long absence...still hating those commercials. Go away Limu Emu and Doug!
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