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There will not be a fourth season of Canadian comedy Run the Burbs. Co-creator and star Andrew Phung shared the news Thursday on Instagram that CBC has canceled the series after three seasons. The show airs in the U.S. on The CW.

The 73rd Miss USA Pageant to air live on Sunday, Aug. 4, Miss Teen USA on Thursday, Aug. 1.

This is a rare occurrence in the current strike-impacted broadcast season — a scripted series getting an order for additional episodes. According to sources, the CW’s flagship drama All American is having its current sixth season extended from 13 episode to 15.

Nexstar Media Group said it does not intend to renew the affiliations of The CW stations owned by E.W. Scripps in seven markets. In two of those  markets — Norfolk, Va., and Lafayette, La. — Nexstar-owned stations will become the new The CW affiliates, effective Sept. 1. “We have interest from other station groups in the five remaining markets and expect to make announcements about those affiliations soon,” Nexstar said in a statement.

Dennis Miller took over as president of The CW in October 2022, after the network was acquired by Nexstar Media Group. He quickly set about refashioning The CW by bringing in more live sports, decreasing the number of scripted series that are exclusive to the network and deploying a coproduction model that sees series air on The CW and another network in a different country, Canada. Here, he talks about his eventful first 18 months atop The CW, including the network’s shift away from the younger demo it once targeted, and what’s next. (Chris Frawley/The CW)

The run of season-ending races will start September 20 in the Xfinity Series Championship from Phoenix Raceway on Saturday, Nov. 9. NBC Sports will handle production, with Rick Allen serving as lead race announcer alongside analysts Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte, and NBC Sports VP of Motorsports Jeff Behnke in charge of production.

The 2025 Critics Choice Awards will not be airing exclusively on The CW. The broadcast network has opted not to renew the awards show’s current option for next year, sources say. However, it is still possible to see the ceremony on the CW in 2025 as the network is looking for a path to continue to carry it, shared with another network or a streamer. There was a similar arrangement for the 2022 Critics Choice Awards, simulcast on The CW and TBS.

The CW, Roku Originals and Australian streaming service Stan have teamed up on the scripted  Good Cop/Bad Cop, with Leighton Meester, Luke Cook and Clancy Brown in the cast. The CW calls the show a “procedural dramedy” and eight episodes have been ordered. Created by John Quaintance, Good Cop/Bad Cop is set to premiere next year. It will stream on The Roku Channel in the U.S. and Stan in Australia.

The move into college-level and progressional sports is as part of a larger strategy shift for CW under owner Nexstar Media Group. The agreement calls for Range Sports, a unit of management-production startup Range Media Partners, to work with CW Sports and Nexstar brass on new sports-related programs and branded content as well as to advise on rights deals on the national level and in local markets for CW affiliates.

She joins from Great American Media and will oversee the Nexstar network’s distribution as well as affiliate relations with station groups.

The independent station will become a CW affiliate on Feb. 1, with Nexstar providing programming and other services, including management of its sales, promotion, marketing and technical operations.

This is something we don’t see often — reruns of an ongoing broadcast series airing concurrently on another broadcast network in primetime. Under a deal with Lionsgate, the CW has acquired the five existing seasons of ABC’s comedy series The Conners. Back-to-back repeats of the Roseanne spinoff will air Thursdays at 8:30-9:30 p.m., flanked by original episodes of Canadian comedy imports Son of a Critch at 8 and Children Ruin Everything at 9:30. The Conners, which airs Wednesdays on ABC, will begin its CW run Jan. 4 at 8:30 p.m. with the series’ first two episodes.

WOOD Grand Rapids, Mich.; KELO Sioux Falls, S.D.; and WMBB Panama City, Fla., will carry CW’s primetime entertainment and live sports programming, on subchannels.

Starting in 2024, The CW will add movies to its lineup on Sunday nights. The first will be The Wedding Planner, starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, which will premiere on the network Jan. 7. Movies are a new piece of The CW’s midseason schedule, which will also include Season 3 of Son of a Critch and the debut of the I Am docuseries.

Viewership for the fourth Republican debate fell since the last event, drawing more than 4 million for Nexstar’s NewsNation and its simulcast on The CW. But it was a record night for NewsNation, which drew 1.6 million viewers for its debate coverage, the largest audience in its history, according to Nielsen’s early fast national numbers. Another 2.5 million watched the simulcast on The CW, giving it its most watched program since 2018. In the 25-54 demo, NewsNation drew more than 350,000 viewers and The CW drew nearly 500,000. (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Perry Sook said the advertising recession and the recent dual Hollywood strikes represent headwinds to getting beyond losses at broadcast network.

Chelsea Handler will return to host next year’s Critics Choice Awards, set for Jan. 14 on The CW, the Critics Choice Association announced on Friday. The comedian hosted the annual awards show this year.

Two acquired series have gotten the ax at The CW. Canadian comedy Run The Burbs and British sitcom Everyone Else Burns have both been pulled from the schedule, the network has confirmed. They’ll be replaced for now with reruns of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Great American Joke Off. The news of Everyone Else Burns comes just a few weeks after The CW ordered a second season of the critically acclaimed apocalyptic family comedy following Channel 4’s renewal of the U.K. series in August.

The move, on Jan. 1, 2024,  spells the end not only of national Spanish-language programming but also the region’s lone, locally produced TV newscast in Spanish.

The CW will become the official broadcast home of WWE NXT in a new five deal that will see the showcase for WWE’s up-and-coming stars move from USA Network in October of 2024. The networks will air 52 live weekly events throughout the season, making NXT the latest addition to the CW’s growing roster of live sports, including ACC football and basketball games airing Saturdays throughout the season, and LIV Golf.

The Nexstar-owned network is adding the Scripps-Owned former independent as an affiliate next Monday.

The final 10-episode season will air in 2024.

CW programming such as FBoy Island, The Spencer Sisters and Children Ruin Everything will no longer be seen on WADL Detroit after owner Adell Broadcasting dropped the Nexstar-owned network. “They didn’t pay, that’s really what it comes down to,” WADL owner Kevin Adell said Monday. “It’s always about the Benjamins, don’t ever forget it. Everything is always about the Benjamins.”

Cable News Network and CW Sports Programming will air on ReachTV’s network reaching over 50 million monthly viewers in hotels and airports nationwide.

The CW has picked up a second season of U.K. comedy Everyone Else Burns ahead of the show’s first season debuting on the U.S. broadcaster. Part of the CW’s acquisition-heavy fall slate, a programming lineup set by new owner Nexstar to avoid impacts of the now-ended writers strike and ongoing actors strike, Everyone Else Burns Season 1 originally aired on Channel 4 in the U.K. in January. It will premiere Thursday at 9:30 p.m. on the CW.

Ryan Sharkey on Tuesday was appointed senior vice president, programming and content strategy for The CW. He will spearhead the strategic growth of The CW network as well as its […]

Independent media agency Known has been named media AOR for the CW Network, part of Nextstar Media Group.  The appointment came without a formal review although the agency essentially auditioned for the role after piloting several campaigns on a project basis earlier this year. The timing is aligned to the CW’s new slate of programming which includes an increasing amount of sports, including ACC football and basketball, Inside The NFL, LIV Golf and more.

The CW Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced a multi-year deal that renews affiliations across 35 markets, including 10 markets in which Sinclair provides sales and other services to a CW-affiliated station. In addition, beginning September 1, Sinclair will launch The CW on two new affiliate stations, KOMO, in Seattle, Washington, and WPNT, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both stations currently broadcast LIV Golf and will expand carriage to include the entire CW Programming offering. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. today announced that KAUT-TV, one of the company’s owned and operated television stations serving Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, will become an affiliate of The CW Network on September 1, 2023. KAUT-TV will begin carrying The CW’s primetime entertainment and live sports programming at that time.

The network adds a new affiliate with launch of CW programming on WPCH Atlanta.

The Nexstar station adds the network and two additional newscasts to its lineup beginning Sept. 1.

According to Larry Teng, who posted a thread to X on Thursday, no one at The CW gave anyone on the show a heads-up that Nancy Drew wasn’t being renewed for a fifth season, instead waiting until the studio reached out about a different matter to relay the unfortunate news.

Although it’s yet to be officially announced, as expected, Sinclair’s WPNT is poised to become Pittsburgh’s new CW affiliate. The station’s own online listings confirm the change in affiliation from My Network TV in primetime. CBS-owned WPCW will have its last day as a CW affiliate on Aug. 31 before going fully independent.