The CW has announced today that 10 of their television shows will be renewed for another season, including fan favourites Riverdale, Supernatural, Arrow and The Flash.
This announcement means Supernatural has been picked up for its 14th season and it will continue its streak of the longest-running series in both The CW and previously The WB’s history. That being said, with so many renewals, cuts will have to be made eventually. While we love Supernatural, could this be the final season or will they wrap on Season 15? We will find out this time next year!
Greg Berlanti’s five superhero dramas have been renewed—the network will create a seventh season of Arrow, a fifth season of The Flash, a fourth season for both Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and a second season for their new drama Black Lightning, which also airs weekly on Netflix for international fans.
The popular Riverdale series will be returning for a third season (no surprise there with how fast it grew in popularity on Netflix with international fans), plus another new CW series Dynasty will be back for more drama, hair pulling and glorious outfits. Jane The Virgin is back for season 5, but could we be nearing the end of the series? I personally think this could be a final season as it just doesn’t feel the same anymore after their 5 year jump.
Rounding up the renewals is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend with a fourth season. However, after the announcement, co-creator and star Rachel Bloom tweeted that the show had been picked up for a “final” season—which wasn’t stated in The CW’s announcement. Bloom and co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna have previously spoken about the series only having a four-season plan, so perhaps this is one that will face the chopping blocks to make way for some new content?
We will find out about renewals for Life Sentence, iZombie, The 100, and Valor in May, but if you ask me, can The 100 really be getting another season? As for iZombie, I love the series, but I don’t think it has ever received the popularity it has deserved. Then for Life Sentence and Valor, these seemed like series that would get cut after one season when they were announced…but I could be wrong!
As we said, The CW does need to make way for new television series and they did recently announce that they would expand their primetime viewing to six nights (Sunday to Friday) come October this year when all the series start back up again… Despite this great change, we definitely are in need of some fresh content. Perhaps some superheroes may find themselves wanting to hang up their spandex soon?
