The CW is NOT What You Remember

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The fact that I had no idea about this shows how disconnected I've become from network TV.

I miss when it was The WB

The Buffy/Angel/Supernatural Era was peak.

Kids WB used to have the best kids animation, The New Adventures of Batman, Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, Batman Beyond, The Batman, X-Men: Evolution, Freakazoid, Men in Black, Jackie Chan Adventures, Pokemon, Yugioh, etc.

It should not go unsaid that another huge shift from the WB to the CW was in its target demographics, specifically a black audience. Who here fondly remembers shows like The Wayans Bros, Sister Sister, The Jamie Foxx Show, etc.?

Man I grew up on cw from watching vampire diaries nikita, supernatural all the superheroes shows and even cartoon block on Saturday vortex. Cw was my childhood

Just finished the series finale of Walker. Once Superman & Lois concludes its final season, there's nothing left on The CW for me. End of a decade-plus era...

There's a big reason as to why "CW Writing" became a term that was used for mockery.

I'm also on the younger side of people that have a love for network TV (in my 30's) so I can relate to what you said. Honestly makes me sad to see the direction that TV has been going in the last few years. I used to always look forward to the upfronts every year for the fall schedule. I watched so so many CW shows. Not all of them great, but they were fun! There was a comfort to knowing that they would be back every fall.

“It’s basically White Collar” Ok, might give this a try given White Collar is probably the best “odd couple” light procedural show ever made.

Smallville, Reaper, Supernatural, and Legend of The Seeker were my go tos back in the day.How they decided to fumble Superman & Lois is insane but I guess they don't enjoy making money lol

I feel like what I'd love from network shows that streaming isn't offering that much of our sitcoms. There are a few streaming sitcoms here and there, but they are very far and few between, and also quite short seasons. Sitcoms are cheap and they are the kind of comfort food I feel network television is associated with. While streaming has had great shows, I miss the days of a 20 episode season of HIMYM.

Back in the day, early 2000s, Kids WB! was my favorite daily after school animated programming block. So many great shows. Mucha Lucha, Xiaolin Showdown, Static Shock, Freakazoid, and so many more.

im tired of 8 episode seasons. give me back 20-24 episode seasons

I feel so bad because the new Librarians series is coming to CW in the fall, two of the staff writers are creators I've been following online for a number of years (Sean and Sinead Persaud) and this is their first mainstream show. I want to see it do well for their sake, but with the way CW is right now, I don't know.

Jared Padalecki has spoken out and is rightfully upset at the degradation of the channel he’s been on since its inception.Walker was consistently the most watched series on the network for its entire run, with a well run production and a comparatively low budget cost, and it was still cancelled. The CW used to be a lower budget network for shows that new writers could cut their teeth on, learn the ropes of the industry, make connections; a lot of popular shows have writers that started on cw shows - but now it’s just a wasteland.

Thank you for your channel, it's really a comfort channel to me!

I LOVE the USA shows. Monk (the movie was great too!), Royal Pains, The 4400 (the original!), Psych, Burn Notice, White Collar (which is coming back!), Suits (which might come back eventually!), Graceland, Mr. Robot, Pearson (cancelled too soon!), Briarpatch, Chucky, and soon, Resident Alien!

At this point, most linear television channels aren’t what they were a decade ago or longer. Roughly 1992-2008 is perhaps the best variety cable television ever gave us in my opinion. As for the CW, I’m sure their best years are after then, but also in our rear view mirror by several years. They aren’t cable, but they also didn’t exactly behave like broadcast when you break it down.