Ok, The CW is really starting to tick me off. It’s as if I’m living in the early 90s when Networks thought it was a fantastic idea to film 20 episodes of a show and then stretch them out over the course of 8 or 9 months. What the buck (I’m trying to cut back on my profanity) is going on? They had a long break between December to February, came back aired 3 weeks worth of new episodes, went away again for several weeks came back and just aired 2 weeks in a row of new stuff and now they are on break AGAIN??? What the heck. This is crap, all of their shows are based on momentum and they aren’t good enough to keep screwing around with people. I’ve already completely lost interest in 90210, One Tree Hill and now Gossip Girl. I’m finding it hard to stay hooked on Supernatural and Smallville both of which have been really strong this season but the scheduling is frustrating the heck out of me. I’m ready to give up on The CW completely and just watch everything on Blu-ray. It’s been my goto Network but I can take so much of these annoying repeats – especially when they repeat episodes that aired just a few freaking weeks ago! And why is 90210 on Tuesday AND Wednesday repeating the same episode. As it is, I seriously doubt I’m going to return at all if there’s yet another break. Just run the shows in order and plan for mid-season replacements like any other normal network. Who is running this station? A trained monkey could do a better job.
All these mini-breaks are what happens when 22 episodes need to be stretched out into 34 (or so ) weeks. Most networks do a winter hiatus of 6-8 weeks since they figure no one has time to see anything new during the holidays. Then there are a couple of weeks allowance for Spring Break later on. All this so that there will be enough episodes with a bang going into the finales in May. On one hand it's good to get the story all at once like 24 does. But the bad thing about that is the unbearable long wait until it returns. At least all these mini-breaks make the summer break a little shorter.
As to why 90210 is being run twice, well, that's called desperation. The shows geared toward the teen girls (Gossip Girl, 90210) aren't doing as well as they expected them to considering all the ad dollars expended. And once American Idol returned, it's been a massacre. And Dawn Ostroff has been called many things, but I don't recall "trained monkey" being one of them… yet! LOL!
I have to agree with you. Even though I only watch Smallville and Supernatural on the CW. I am sick of the breaks already. The problem is that the station is really not doing that well compared to ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX. I don't know why they would risk losing a fan base for there shows. To be honest I don't really care for the CW. I wish Supernatural and Smallville were on a different station because they will never get out of the shadows of this station being for teens only. I think with being on a different station people would give them a better rating, and maybe they will be taken more seriously.
i remember a time when programs only repeated during the summer, then it started being during the holidays and the summer, which was fine; now it's whenever. i lost interest in 'Heroes' last season and 'Lost' this season because of the loooooong lapses in between the season finales. pretty soon, hardly anyone will watch regular tv because of this. i only watch Top Model and The Game on the CW; the other shows suck to me, though some will think these two do also.
Dawn Ostroff has been casted as Lucifer on Supernatural.