The CW President of Entertainment Brad Schwartz has expressed The CW’s commitment to sustaining series like All American, All American: Homecoming, and Walker at The CW’s TCA press tour, according to Deadline. This announcement comes amidst the network’s cancellation of a number of its scripted series.
Recently, The CW has been making headlines for its cancellation of some of its major scripted series, such as Riverdale, The Flash Walker: Independence, The Winchesters, Nancy Drew, and Gotham Knights. This has been a reaction to the network being acquired by Nexstar in 2022. The acquisition caused The CW to significantly scale back its scripted content, though Schwartz has now come out to assure fans that the fate of key series like All American, All American: Homecoming, and Walker are not reliant on financial constraints but instead purely on ratings.
Deadline reported on how the President of Entertainment spoke about their key scripted content at the press tour: “CBS and Warner Bros have been so wonderful working with us on those shows and we’ve gotten both of those shows to an economic area, where as long as they keep rating, there’s no reason why we can’t keep them. It’s no longer a financial question, it’s a creative and performance question.”
All American continues to be a successful venture for the network as it previously had a lucrative streaming deal with Netflix. Stars of the show include Chelsea Tavares (All American, Unfabulous, Just Jordan), Jalyn Hall (All American, John Henry, Till), Greta Onieogou (All American, Heartland, Undercover Grandpa), Daniel Ezra (All American, A Discovery of Witches, Murdered by My Boyfriend), Hunter Clowdus (All American, Bennett’s War, Teen Wolf), Taye Diggs (Rent, Private Practice, The Best Man), Cody Christian (Teen Wolf, Pretty Little Liars, All American), Samantha Logan (13 Reasons Why, All American, The Fosters), Michael Evans Behling (The Manny, All American, Grey’s Anatomy), Monet Mazur (40 Days and 40 Nights, Torque, Just Married, Blow), Bre-Z (All American, Empire), and Karimah Westbrook (All American, Suburbicon, The Rum Diary).
The series’ success spurred the spin-off All American: Homecoming, which is one of the key series that Schwartz has pledged to keep alive.