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Walker is turning in his Texas Ranger badge: The CW has cancelled the Jared Padalecki-starring drama after four seasons, TVLine has confirmed. The official announcement comes after TVLine reported earlier today that the series was not expected to return, following Deadline‘s report that the show’s sets were being broken down.
Padalecki was first to share the cancellation news in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
“It is with a heavy heart that I share this news with you. #Walker will not be airing on [The] CW for a fifth season,” he wrote. “It’s a tough piece of news to be sure, but we are SO thankful for the #WalkerFamily that has been built, both on set and off. After four seasons together, we have felt the love and support from the entire #WalkerFamily, and we will be forever grateful.
“Too often, we get to be the ones receiving the praise and gratitude and flattery and, all too often, we miss the opportunity to put it back where it belongs… WITH THE FANS!” his statement continued. “In this world, home isn’t a ‘place’; it’s a relationship. ‘Places’ can be lost. ‘Relationships’ can live forever. Our gratitude and love for the entire #WalkerFamily will live forever. It has been a unique honor to be a part of the cast and crew (and fandom!) that helped #Walker tell the stories that we told. I will forever smile on the years I got to spend with the cast and crew and studio and network and fandom that made this all possible. Til we ride again.”
Season-to-date, Walker is averaging a hair over one million total viewers with a 0.1 demo rating (with Live+7 playback), down 16% in audience but steady in the demo vs. its Season 3 numbers. Out of the eight dramas that The CW has aired this TV season, it easily ranks No. 1 in total audience.
“We want to thank the entire cast, crew, writers, directors and producers of Walker for their hard work and dedication over four incredible seasons,” The CW added in a statement of its own. “We also want to give a special thanks to star and executive producer Jared Padalecki, who has been a member of The CW family for over 20 years and was integral to some of the biggest hits on the network.”
Walker was one of just four original CW shows to be picked up back in May 2023 by the network’s new executive brass after Nexstar Media Group acquired majority ownership of The CW in August 2022. At the time, All American and All American: Homecoming also received renewals for this current 2023-24 season. Additionally, Superman & Lois is slated to debut its fourth and final season this fall.
Walker stars Supernatural alum Padalecki in the titular role of Texas Ranger Cordell Walker. The cast also includes Odette Annable as Cordell’s girlfriend, Geri; Ashley Reyes and Jeff Pierre as Cordell’s fellow Rangers, Cassie and Trey; Coby Bell as Cordell’s boss, Captain James; Violet Brinson and Kale Culley as Cordell’s kids, Stella and Auggie; Keegan Allen as Cordell’s brother, Liam; and Mitch Pileggi and Molly Hagan as Cordell’s parents, Bonham and Abeline.
The fourth season is currently unspooling Wednesdays at 8/7c.
TVLine’s Renewal Scorecard has been updated with the news. Hit the comments with your reactions!
CW is now officially a dead channel for me. They can keep their golf shows or whatever they decided was “more profitable”
This was the last show I enjoyed on The CW. And will likely get rid of it in my television programming. Walker was excellent as was the other spin off of the show, that was also axed.
Such a shame. Enjoyed the show
There have been so many cancellations this season of shows I really enjoy, and this is one of them. The cast of this show is incredible, One of my favorite actors is Keegan Allen. I hope to see him and the other cast members in future projects.
The CW doesn’t seem to know what they’re doing. They cancel their good shows while promoting garbage.
You are right. Get all this reality garbage off TV. All the clean-cut shows get cancelled. Nothing else on the CW do I watch
I hope The CW crashes and burn. nexstar are the worst. They completely destroy what the network was. We loved it just the way it was before it was bought out.
You gotta love how the CW puts out their ‘thank you so much’ statement while acting just the opposite. Seriously, cancelling their number 1 show? This was the last show I still watched on this channel, so guess I’m done with CW. Despite how CW discarded the cast, crew, and all involved..I hope they feel appreciated by the fans. Good luck to all that lost their jobs due to this error of judgement by some CW executive.
Well said! I completely agree. Before the buy out, CW was a staple in my household! Starting with Supernatural for 15 years and then all of the super hero shows like the Arrowverse! Some of the shows got cancelled without being able to bring the storyline to an end. I have no idea what they are trying to turn the channel into but Walker is essentially the last show to watch on the CW! I binged watched the first 3 episodes of this season and thought, wow, they’ve really stepped up their game! Now it’s for nothing!
So sorry for Jared and the entire cast and crew. They will be missed!
I don’t interpret that statement as genuine coming from The CW, by now it is just a husk of it’s former self in just name. It’s whoever loser Nexstar exec is running it now that sent that card as just protocol. Probably that Perry Sook fella. Nexstar is all to blame for the state of The CW. They annihilated it and continue to push their audiences away. But we also would have to wish for WBD to screw itself for selling the network to such unworthy new owners.
There went the last reason for me to tune in the CW. Crap “reality” shows do not interest me. You had a good run, CW, but your new management has nothing in common with me!
So many people do not understand how TV works. If this show was actually that profitable, it would not have been canceled. NextStar could not have afforded to keep the network the way it was before. The only way they make a profit is by making more than they spend and that meant replacing the old with cheaper newer content. I do not root for their failure. Truth is, the didn’t need to renew any of these shows last year. Im glad they gave shows like this and Superman and Lois a little more time.
We understand how Tv works don’t consider yourself high and mighty thinking you the only one who knows how networks think and act. so if they can’t afford to keep their number 1 show on the air then Nextstar need to throw in the towel and close down the network. What’s the point if they don’t have money to keep scripted shows going. Joan and the Librarians are going to be so cheaply made that it’s quality is going be trash. Not worth if what’s going to be coming out is going to be cheaply made.
Lil Taz, you do realize that all of the old CW shows were under a whole different business model? Both CBS and WB both made money on global syndication/streaming, something that Nexstar will never make profit on. It’s the same reason why 911 moved to ABC, Fox Entertainment was not going to make money on the series and there were huge license fees that didn’t make any sense for them to keep it, again, a top-rated, highly-viewed show. The CW isn’t a non-profit, if it doesn’t make financial sense, it’s getting the boot. With everyone saying that Nexstar is being too cheap, give them some time to figure it out, it’s a transitional chapter for the network and once they get their footing, I’m pretty sure they will refocus on improving their scripted lineup to something that makes financial sense for them.
It wasn’t that the wasn’t profitable it was more that Nexstar wanted CBS to foot the entire bill. Most shows cost in the millions per episode to produce. Nexstar is bargain hunting. They want to continue with acquired shows, sports and “reality” TV. Maybe it will work for them but probably not. Network TV is failing. They can’t compete with streaming services. I’m really surprised Walker was picked up at all.
Streaming doesn’t even make a profit.
License fees, advertisements, subscriptions… u are incorrect: somebody is making a profit.
To be fair, Disney is a much bigger company than Nexstar. Disney both creates and airs content, and it has been said not that long ago that Disney wants to get out of the linear television business.
I don’t fault Nexstar for doing what they are doing. I expect to see more of their NewsNation programming to show up on The CW.
As I have said before, it is far better to be a creator of content, than to be a company that airs content. The creators of content is where the money is made, and there are far too few creators of content..
As long as media companies keep both oars in the water, one in linear television, one in streaming, I think that it will be much more likely for them to dump higher priced content and go for cheaper content. I think that is especially true for those med companies that don’t create any of their own content at all.
The problem with streamers like Peacock and Paramount+, is that they don’t have enough first run original content.
Haven’t there been rumors about the future ownership of Paramount+?
This does not surprise me. The show had no destination going on this season and frankly with the daughter now in college. I find it ridiculous that she would not go to her dad for help with her situation. It made no sense and that blew it for me. And the captain and his crying over not being able to catch the killer from his past was also not believable and made for a sad show.
So they will probably replace another good scripted show with more reality garbage. Hope they shop it elswhere!
It is not being shopped. –Mgmt.
Once Superman is finished, I’m done with The CW
Seeing how the sets were being struck down, it was only a matter of time before they announced Walker’s cancellation. With that, I wonder… who is Nexstar’s target audience now that one of the CW’s best shows is going off the air? I mean, Canadian import TV shows, variety programs, and golf tournaments can only go so far.
Some of those Canadian TV shows are great.
I agree. While I was a stalwart viewer of the DC CW series for the past decade, I look forward to some of the Canadian series (e.g. WILD CARDS, FAMILY LAW, CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING, SON OF A CRITCH and SIGHT UNSEEN) far more than I did for many of the DC series. I never watched WALKER, having never liked the Norris version, but I did watch and enjoy WALKER: INDEPENDENCE, so this isn’t a dismissal of the old CW originals, but if we get instead the Canadian original series we otherwise would never see (since first-run syndication has disappeared in that same past decade and cable stations no longer pick up the best of Canadian TV series) then I’m fine with CW serving as a co-financier for them. I’ve seen no palpable difference in quality between U.S. and Canadian series, so anyone who dismisses them as “cheap” just isn’t paying any attention.
Their target audience is, according to them and a report that was done by 2022, “58 year olds”. Funny how said audience had been watching the network from a long time and all they’ve done is push everyone away. No one really gives a crap about their cheap endeavours.
Another great series lost. Sad news. We , as fans, get involved with the characters stories and dramas and then “puff” some executive decides what is good for the viewers and all the cast and crew without consulting the public. It’s so frustrating.
Does Colter Shaw on Tracker need another brother?
Come on!!! This show still had so much more to give! There’s even more they can revisit! Why get rid of a show that’s in the middle of a couple of stories. I’m so upset at how quick they get rid of good shows. Keep Walker! Save it!
#1 show (although on the CW, that doesn’t mean much) and it gets cancelled. Broadcast TV executives are a weird lot … is it just me or was there a larger # of cancellations this year?
It definitely feels like a larger amount. I know part of that is because of the shortened tv season we had this year compared to years past, because of the strike, so cancellations were less spread out, and I think that execs were a little more decisive in cancelling things that would have maybe survived under another environment (like So Help Me Todd, for example.)
Walker has the unfortunate luck of being on the CW, which changed ownership recently, and Nexstar seems highly disinterested in keeping on anything that was there before they bought the network, which is why it’s been Bloodbath City there for like the last year or so,
Doesn’t feel that way to me. Fox only cancelled Housebroken. ABC had The Good Doctor and Station 19 final seasons and cancelled Not Dead Yet. Last year they ended A Million Little Things and The Goldbergs and cancelled Alaska Daily, Big Sky, The Company You Keep, Home Economics, and The Rookie: Feds.
Yes, the CW is now dead. So, disappointed about “Walker”. I can’t stand any of the new programing that Nexstar is spewing out. “Walker” should have been given a renewal. I have been along on this Network train ride since it was the WB & then became the CW but the train has now arrived at the station with the cancellation of “Walker”, and I’m disembarking … I’m out.
I am so done with the CW network. This is the 9th show that I’ve gotten into and was dying to see more only to have them cancel it. Since they have now canceled another of my favorites I will never watch or support this network again and i have other fans here that feel the same way and will no longer be tuning into anything the ÇW puts out.
I’m heartbroken! I love Walker!!! Such a great show! Any chance it will move to another network????
Another networks 🐮💩 move… 🙄
I guess it’s no more CW for me. Really, cancelling your highest rated show, because you didn’t want to pay the show more to be able to make it. Very cheap, and very unfortunate.
Once Walker and Lois and Clark is off the air I won’t be coming back to the CW anymore after this all my favorites shows have been slaughtered. Good Bye CW
Thanks CW for stabbing Jared in the back. I wish he would try to get another network like the Western Channel or someone to pick it up. It is obvious u don’t care about what us fans like and only want to put out cheaper shows. I would rather have seen lesser episodes than cancellation. Jared’s loyalty was one sided. Was looking forward to so many storylines especially Cassie and Luna. So disappointed.
The cast & crew of Walker should be very proud for putting out 4 awesome seasons with quality acting and storytelling!
I have watched the CW/WB starting with Smallville back in ‘01, then went on a 15 year road trip with Supernatural in ‘05, loved and watched most of the Arrowverse and now Walker…but after June 26th the CW is dead to me!
And Congratulations to the CW…for pissing off and losing most of your audience, the ones like me who have been watching this network for years and, lately, been watching the new president run it into the ground followed by a giant fireball!!!
So no Chuck Norris cameo or Guest Spot happening? Too bad.
I’m sorry to say this but first CW you would not pick up Supernatural and then you cancelled The Winchesters and now you’re cancelling Walker. I’m done watching your channel. I won’t watch the channel anymore. I’m out!