You’d have to go back to Emily Owens MD to find the last CW Fall series to not be picked up for a back order with more episodes. With Frequency and No Tomorrow ending their 13-episode runs, could that be a sign that the shows won’t be back next year?
“We had no intention of going beyond 13,” CW President Mark Pedowitz said this morning during his Executive Session of the TCA Winter Press Tour. “We knew we had five midseason shows to launch, four returning and Riverdale. We also knew that as an attempt to get in all of the programming, to have year‑around original programming, it was important to do that. So unless something extraordinary happened, there was never an intent to go beyond 13,” he admitted.
“That said, I think both shows are very well done. They are very well executed,” he continued. “Whether it’s the fall presidential election, whether it was the World Series, whether it was This Is Us in connection with No Tomorrow, the linear numbers are not where we wanted them to be. We are seeing some digital numbers. And the nice thing now for us is, with the new digital strategy for The CW TV and having a Netflix deal, we’ll be able to judge whether or not there’s a binge moment and see whether or not, come May, whether or not we should bring them back. There is no ‘no’ yet. So we’ll see what happen,” he optimistically said.
So, should we put away the ham radio? Is there no tomorrow for No Tomorrow? Stay tuned. Our guts say no, but Pedowitz’s PR spin implies “maybe.” The CW will announce their 2017-18 TV schedule in May.
