The CW premieres its fifth and final new drama of the season tonight, a ridiculous show scheduled ridiculously called Cult. In Hart of Dixie it will have a lead-in both weak and wildly incompatible, and the show failed to launch a much more similar show (Emily Owens M.D.) this fall. But Cult seems a little more in line with what's working on the CDub of late, and it's led by a familiar face from The Vampire Diaries. Can the CW change its Tuesday Culture? That's Question Two for Tuesday, February 19, 2013.
| Recent CW Drama Premieres |
| 1.2 (Hellcats, 9/8/10) 1.4 (Nikita, 9/9/10) 1.2 (Ringer, 9/13/11) 1.3 (The Secret Circle, 9/15/11) 0.8 (Hart of Dixie, 9/26/11) 1.3 (Arrow, 10/10/12) 1.2 (Beauty and the Beast, 10/11/12) 0.5 (Emily Owens M.D., 10/16/12) 0.6 (The Carrie Diaries, 1/14/13) |
Gun to my head, I would say this show isn't going to work, but for some reason I'm not as convinced as I probably should be. I was more sure about previous occupant Emily Owens M.D., which just looked like a far inferior version of a lead-in that already had modest ratings. This show is more of a wild card. Maybe there are some people that would actually willfully show up for this. Maybe not, and the CW is trying to tell us something by putting it in such a bad situation. Flopping hard is probably more likely than sleeper success, but neither one seems inconceivable.
Over/Under: 0.55.
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