The CW reclaims Sunday nights

[mvcg66b3r]

That record of 9 pilots ordered by the CW this year starts to make a lot of sense.

Nine years after the CW network reduced the nights it programs, returning Sunday to its affiliates, the network is taking it back. Starting next fall, the CW’s schedule again will span six nights a week, Sunday-Friday (8 PM – 10 PM) for 12 hours of programming. The network’s affiliate stations are on board with the expansion — the CW has secured the same clearances on all six nights via an agreement with its key affiliate partners, including the Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tribune Broadcasting, CBS Television Stations, and Nexstar Media Group.

The CW’s pullout from Sundays had started virtually from the 2006 launch of the network as a result of merging UPN and the WB. The final season of 7th Heaven aired on the night during the CW’s inaugural season, followed by the short-lived fall 2007 drama Life Is Wild, which became the last original homegrown CW program to air on Sunday. The CW’s experiment to outsource Sunday night to MRC for the 2008-09 season failed miserably, with the network swiftly dropping the block for a lineup of Jericho reruns and MGM library movies until giving the the night back to the stations in spring of 2009.

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[itsTheRolyPoly]

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The CW is set to become the first television network in history to program a two-hour block on Sundays from 8:00-10:00 p.m. AND start at 8:00, not 7:00 p.m. like other networks.

 

[zeebre12]

Will The CW program new scripted series for the 2 hours on Sunday or will it be reality series?

 

[Megatron]

Will The CW program new scripted series for the 2 hours on Sunday or will it be reality series?

CW President said Sundays will be scripted wouldn't mind if they made it a sitcom night or Fridays for sitcoms that is what is missing with The CW. I was surprise that TV Station Groups sign off on the deal to give The CW back Sunday Nights since it's very hard to get it back once a network gives the stations to program in primetime. All though CW7 just puts movies on Sunday Nights which use to be Saturday Nights which is just dramas on Saturday night. Wonder if CW7 just going to air movies in the afternoons only on the weekends.

 

[TVCOOL]

Does this means if it's successful would CW plan on programming Saturday nights? 8-10pm Sundays could work out well.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

Probably not. I'd say there's a higher chance of one of the big 4 networks dropping Saturday night scripted programming than the CW adding it.

 

[Matt Galvin]

But none have any to drop other then 48 Hours.