According to Entertainment Weekly's James Hibberd, The CW has given eight of its shows early renewals for the 2015-2016 TV season. The following shows have been renewed: Arrow (Season 4), Jane the Virgin (Season 2), Reign (Season 3), Supernatural (Season 11), The 100 (Season 3), The Flash (Season 2), The Originals (Season 3) and The Vampire Diaries (Season 7).
Here's an excerpt from the article, which includes a statement from the president of The CW, Mark Pedowitz, regarding these renewals:
“Each of these series have helped define what The CW is today, a network that is home to smart, provocative, quality programming, targeting a savvy adult audience,” said CW president Mark Pedowitz. “By picking up these shows now, our executive producers can start planning next season’s storylines, and rolling these shows out throughout next season guarantees The CW will have more proven original series for our fall, midseason and summer 2016 line-ups.”Most of these shows were expected to get a renewal, though Reign and The 100 were looking a bit iffy due to their modest ratings. Jane the Virgin struggles in the ratings too, but given its Golden Globe nominations for comedy series and star Gina Rodriguez, the freshman dramedy was considered a lock for renewal. “[Jane is] a quality show, you guys have supported it as a quality show, give it time,” Pedowitz said.Overall, this represents the most series The CW has ever renewed, especially this early in the season, which raises the prospect of a more dynamic schedule for the network next season once some new shows are added into the mix.
My thoughts: With the exception of Jane the Virgin and Reign, I watch all of these shows, so I'm very excited about this news. Although, for the record I've been wanting to watch Jane the Virgin and Reign for a while now. I'm especially interested in checking out Jane the Virgin since the show has received two Golden Globe nominations, which I think is a pretty huge and rather historic thing for The CW network since their shows haven't received Golden Globe or Emmy nominations in the past, a least as far I can remember.
While I'm beyond excited about all of these renewals, I'm especially excited about Supernatural being renewed for an 11th season since I just started watching it a few months ago. Yes, I know that I'm getting into Supernatural pretty late in the game, but better late than never, right? Supernatural is definitely a pretty great show. That being said, a part of me does have to wonder how many more seasons the show will continue to be on the air. Having a TV show stay on the air for ten seasons or more is a very rare thing in this day and age, and I'm sure that Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki will want to move on to other projects at some point. Since I just started watching Supernatural and I'm absolutely loving the show, I'm not going to complain about it being renewed for an 11th season though. Plus, having any TV show run for ten seasons or more is something that I think both any network and any one who works on a show that's been on the air that long, in this case Supernatural, should be incredibly proud of. I think that's especially the case in this day and age where so many TV shows have been canceled prematurely.
Since I'm a big fan of basically all these shows, I don't have any complaints about these shows being renewed. However, since most of The CW's shows have been renewed now and they still have several new shows that will premiere at some point this season, this news does kind of make me worry about Hart of Dixie's future and whether not it will be renewed. I'm also a fan of that show, and I would definitely hate for it to be canceled.
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