All American and 1 Other Series Renewed at The CW
All American has made it to the end zone, scoring a Season 7 renewal at The CW, TVLine has learned. The seventh season will consist of 13 episodes and will kick off in 2025.
The network has also picked up unscripted magic series Penn & Teller: Fool Us, which will be back for Season 11, and set a broadcast premiere date for The Chosen‘s fourth season. (Get details on the latter here.)
Season-to-date, All American is averaging 761,000 total viewers and a 0.2 demo rating (with Live+7 playback), down 13% and 33% from its Season 5 numbers. Out of the eight dramas that The CW has aired this TV season, it ranks third in viewers but No. 1 in the demo.
The football drama, currently in its sixth season, was one of only four original CW shows — along with Walker, Superman & Lois and its own spinoff, All American: Homecoming — to have remained on the network’s lineup after its acquisition by Nexstar Media Group in August 2022. Superman & Lois will now end with its upcoming fourth season (airing Thursdays this fall), while Homecoming returns for Season 3 on Monday, July 8, at 9/8c.
Walker, however, has since been cancelled at The CW after four seasons.
New episodes of All American currently air Mondays at 8/7c on The CW. As previously reported, its Season 6 episode order has been increased from 13 to 15 (with the finale set for Monday, July 15) — but the show’s renewal for Season 7 could bring a wave of “next-gen young characters” in an effort to freshen up the series and reduce production costs when it returns.
“[Co-showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll] has a bunch of stories to tell [in Season 6], and I think, naturally, some of those stories are coming to an end,” Brad Schwartz, The CW’s president of entertainment, told TVLine in May. “We have Spencer going into the draft, there are some romantic chapters [that could] close… I think the natural storytelling is leading some of the very big arcs [to a possible conclusion].”
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Sight Unseen keeps getting better and better.
For CW, the renewal list should include shows that cross borders like Family Law.
I might be inclined to watch the new version of The Librarians, as I liked the earlier version. But Nexstar’s policies toward scripted content do not fill me with confidence that it will last even a full season. So, it’s unlikely. :(
Let me get this straight … the CW cancels “Walker” (total mistake) but they decide to renew “All American” just ridiculous. Oh well, once I see the last episodes of “Superman and Lois” I can bid farewell to this dumpster fire of network since Nexstar took over. I’ve been on this train ride since the network was the WB and then became the CW but Nexstar’s vision for programming isn’t anything I want to invest my time in, it’s all just awful and the good programming they toss. So, as this train nears the station with the final episodes of “Superman and Lois” once the credits roll on the series finale, I can disembark from the CW once and for all. Thanks for killing the network Nexstar.
Same
At least they renewed Wild Cards
While my viewership of the CW is essentially nil (except for All-American), the thing is, CW NEVER made money. We all may have like the shows, but neither Warner nor CBS wanted to keep sinking money into something that loses money. You may not like the new CW. I may not like the new CW. I don’t know who likes the new CW, but what they’re doing is what they think can create a profitable business. Businesses that don’t make a profit, don’t exist for long.
The CW existed for long and made Paramount and WB billions, literally. It was never meant as a lucrative broadcast network, but as a launchpad for shows that made money on syndication, DVD, Blu-Ray and streaming. They still licence content like Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries, to this day. They had many worldwide hits, like Smallville, Gossip Girl, The Flash, Riverdale… Netflix was paying them a billion a year and, at the height of physical media, boxsets sold very well. Not to mention international and cable syndication. But those models changed. So, today, yes, the CW no longer made sense. But the idea that it never made money is preposterous. It made billions, exactly under the business model it was set up.
Not really a renewal if they bring in a new cast. More like a cheap reboot trying to bank on an established name. The CW probably will not be in around in 5 years, or if it is, it will be an afterthought filled with imported shows and the cheapest reality shows they can find.
All American is a good show. Walker wasn’t that good, imo. I still have episodes in my DVR that I’ve haven’t watched and I will delete eventually.
Walker was pretty bad, any time I left the TV on my wife would say “why you watching that budget redneck cowboy show”… It wasn’t very popular here in Indonesia.
I have the same feeling and I could not posted it any better.
And I will do the same once superman and Lois finished. Peace out CW ✌️
Family Law has been renewed for season 4 in Canada. No news on CW airing it.
No news at all on Sight Unseen season 2.
Thanks! I was just going to look for info on Season 2 for Sight Unseen. This is why it pays to read the comments!
We all know The CW gave it a season 7 cause they going to axe the majority of the cast and hire bunch of newbies and pay them low.
All American has little more to give in another season It is time to wrap things up for the characters now involved . Some possible spinoffs might have worked using a couple of the major characters as they move on.
I am totally flabbergasted that CBS has cancelled all the high rated viewer series that I watched every week, NCIS New Orleans, NCIS Los Angeles, NCIS Hawaii, Bull, CSI. Because the end result is that I am totally uninterested in the replacements like Origins etc. So I will stop watching NCIS altogether. So net result is that CBS has lost a viewer. I see from Twitter that I am not alone there are tens of thousands who feel the same way. Are CBS crazy?
Thrilled that All American was renewed. However, not sure I’d watch a whole new cast. Taye Diggs should not have left.
I take it Fboy Island/Lovers & Liars is dead as well given they burned off the last 3 eps on the app? That show is hilarious. Nikki Glaser is a treasure.
Congrats to fans of the show but I’m confused why this was renewed butnot walker which is their most watched show? I’m guessing it comes down to money but I would think they have similar budgets.
I sure wish we’d get some news on Family Law! That is easily one of the best Canadian imports. Victor Garber and Lauren Holly are stellar, and the rest of the cast is great as well. C’mon CW!!!
It’s already been renewed. They’re filming season 4 right now, almost done.
What happened to Mysteries Decoded? They filmed the season but never released it.
I love All American, but with this current cast! Daniel Ezra is fantastic and his chemistry with Samantha Logan is SO good. Similarly, the show finally realized last season that Jordan and Layla are gold together. Coop and Patience are also good together. And all of the other characters make sense too. If TPTB determine that they’ve done all they can with the existing characters and introduce new ones, I’m not interested.
Glad they renewed All American. It’s a good series i think. I’m still chocked about Walker getting cancelled.
I’m so excited to hear All American was finally renewed. I do hope we get a 4th and final season for All American: Homecoming so things can be wrapped up there with the characters graduating.
I wonder if the CW network is going to air season 4 of Family Law. It was renewed in Canada.
The CW sucks now
What I can’t figure out is why Nester wanted the CW in the first place-they picked up a network with an established audience that they proceeded to alienate, they can’t seem to afford to do programming on the scale the original owners did, they don’t seem to have many ideas for original programming themselves, nothing they do catches on and doesn’t even seem designed to-why did they go to the trouble of buying a major network? Wouldn’t some obscure cable network have served their purposes just as well and been cheaper?
It may have taken some strongarming, but I am happy that the producers of All American were finally convinced to ditch uppercase-only closed-captioning this season. Otherwise, this should’ve been a cancellation notice LOL. Some will think that the AA shows’ CC switch came too little, too late. I do have a new concern about the potential new cast for All American that was hinted at with this renewal and that series revolving around the story of someone other than Spencer, which would mean a “post-script season”, something which I am not a big fan of. It’s not like it has been announced or confirmed yet, but there’s no way I’m giving a scripted show an entirely new cast from zero for what could potentially be a final season.
Any chance of Aly being back as the host of Fool Us? I thought maybe she didn’t do it this year because of DWTS, so maybe she’ll come back?