FRIDAY
CRAIG: 8:00 The Vampire Diaries; 9:00 The Originals
SHILO: 8:00 The Vampire Diaries; 9:00 The Originals
CRAIG: Friday night ratings seemed up when they moved these two to Fridays, so why mess with it? I do hope, though, that the decision is finally made to wrap The Vampire Diaries, which it sounds like is a thing that might be happening anyway. The universe of the show can still live on in New Orleans with The Originals if Vampire Diaries were to get staked after Season 8.
SHILO:Â I think The CW has found a pretty decent Friday lineup in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, so much so that both getting 22 episodes would allow the network to focus on other nights this season. The two shows work well together and put up numbers comparable to, and sometimes better than, Monday, which is about all they could realistically ask for at this point. And that stability could be good for Friday, which has been a bit of a revolving door for the network in recent seasons.
The main question going into the season is whether The Originals can scrape a fifth season. Even though one would assume that, without its mothership and after getting to the vaunted four-season mark, the show would be done, if The Vampire Diaries ends this season and some characters make the transition from Mystic Falls to New Orleans, enough new life could be breathed into The Originals that a fifth season could work.
Which would then, of course, keep The CW from having to completely rebuild Fridays while only adding to the show’s digital syndication package.
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What I wish is that they would go back to early(er) September premieres. I’ve had this feeling for a while that too many people are already hooked into their nightly schedules by the time The CW premieres come. Getting out of the gate first would breed loyalty.
It would be a great thing, although it’s rare for a show to have more than 9 or 10 episodes done before December, which is what they usually run all the way through to before reruns. If they started filming sooner, that would be a great solution.
Though, that also brings up the other problem CW viewers especially seem to have, and that is breaks. If people think three-week breaks between episodes in March are bad imagine what happens if they have to stretch 22-23 episodes between September and May.
Maybe, though, with so many shows on the schedule, they’ll have to start a little earlier.