Why I May Stop Watching The CW

All of you regular readers are aware that I’m still very bitter about what happened with “Everwood.” Last year The CW renewed it but then at the 11th hour they uncanceled “7th Heaven,” which had already aired their series finale and canceled “Everwood” in it’s place. So all us “Everwood” fans had to say goodbye so that the The CW could have Reverend Camdem have an affair!
I was almost at my breaking point after the “Everwood” scanadal but I decided to have some faith in The CW. After all, it’s the child of The WB and The WB is what first hooked me to television. Specifically it was “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” “Dawson’s Creek” and “Felicity” that made me a TV slut. So I just wasn’t ready to say “F* U” to The CW yet. But man, what a difference a year makes, huh?
“Gilmore Girls” and “Veronica Mars” have booth met their end. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “It wasn’t The CW’s fault that Gimore Girls ended. It ended because Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham’s contracts were up.”? Yes and No.
Amy Sherman-Palladino is the creator of “Gilmore Girls.” She was also the executive producer for the first six years. When The CW was forming they wanted to renew “Gilmore Girls” but Sherman-Palladino said she was only interested in continuing the show if The CW renewed it for two seasons instead of one (This also meant re-signing all contracts with cast members). The CW turned her down and so Sherman-Palladino left the show, which is why this past season felt off. So if The CW had agreed to the two year deal this past year would have been good and we would be getting one final season of “Gilmore Girls.”
Then with “Veronica Mars” mannnnn come on! How can they just let the show end like that? There was absolutely no closure at all. We were left with a cliff hanger ended and it just urks me. The CW really should have given Rob Thomas, the show’s creator, a heads up that it was going to be canceled instead of stringing him along suggesting they set the show 5 years in the future after Veronica had graduated from the FBI academy.
So “Everwood” “Gilmore Girls” and “Veronica Mars” seems like three strikes to me. I’m seriously considering not watching The CW ever again. Sure this means I’d miss out on “Smallville” “Supernatural” “One Tree Hill” and any new shows they have. But those are all things I can just catch on DVD and the network doesn’t make money off DVD sales. Well they do a little but the majority of that money goes to the studio that makes the show not the network that airs it.
Hmmmm what to do? I guess I have until fall to decide.







