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CRAIG: I still kind of wish America’s Next Top Model was a summer-only show so that Friday nights aren’t such a 
You seemed a lot more enthusiastic about Grimm compared to how it ended up doing in the ratings for Season 4. You also were correct that The CW would put Hart of Dixie on Friday nights.
SHILO: As always, The CW certainly surprised me with what they decided to do with their Fridays. Bringing back Whose Line in the fall was something I hadn’t thought about, considering how ubiquitous the show had been last year, while running dead-in-the-water Hart of Dixie at 8:00 ended up highlighting that the show was stronger than several dramas that received an early renewal. That result was promising, though, in that a non-genre drama might be able to survive a move to Fridays, thereby keeping The CW from becoming too niche a network. But with The Carrie Diaries and Hart of Dixie overperforming their respective time slots and still not getting a renewal, it’s as yet unclear just how a drama would have to perform at 8:00 in order to get a renewal. Outside factors come into play at The CW more than other networks, but still, these were two shows who had some life left in them but were nonetheless put out to pasture.
Although Cristela creatively grew over the course of its 22-episode first season, you’re likely going to be correct that the show didn’t grab enough people in order to make it to season two. With a healthier Last Man Standing than last 
Well, you definitely captured the excitement that came with Constantine. Not everyone familiar with the source material took to the show, but the ones who it resonated with loved it and gave it one of the most vocal, socially active fan bases out there. And frankly, the ratings it got this season aren’t that bad in retrospect, especially when you consider what happened to the rest of NBC’s freshman class and how Grimm was collapsed in recent weeks. But it probably ended up being a shade too dark for the Grimm audience and after turning off some of the source material’s fan base with its approach, it might’ve left itself with too little audience to work with. Which is a shame because, though we’re teetering toward comic drama overload, this one felt like a fresh take for both the subject matter and the network itself. NBC got a drama that could’ve easily fit in on cable (a’la Hannibal), but the problem ended up being that Constantine didn’t have the financial arrangement of a Hannibal, turning in ratings that would be okay for the Bryan Fuller model but didn’t work for something produced by an outside studio.
