It's time for a journey through the CW Friday schedule in 2022-23...
fall
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Nancy Drew | 13 | ||
| 17 | 9 | ||||
| 2022-23 | Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R) | 17 (+28%) | |
| 16 (-8%) | 20 (+115%) | 16 (+74%) | |||
| 18 (+94%) | |||||
| VsAvg | -39% | -27% | -33% | ||
| Rank | 22/24 | 17/24 | 21/24 | ||
In 2022-23, the CW finally abandoned its practice of putting leftover scripted originals on Friday and fully embraced Penn & Teller, Whose Line and friends. That paid off in a big way for the 9/8c hour, vaulting the network to growth for most of the season, in spite of Penn & Teller itself being on a downward trajectory.
winter
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Nancy Drew | 17 | ||
| 21 | 12 | ||||
| 2022-23 | Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Criss Angel's Magic with the Stars | 16 (-2%) | ||
| 19 (-11%) | 14 (+15%) | ||||
| VsAvg | -30% | -42% | -36% | ||
| Rank | 21/24 | 18/24 | 20/24 | ||
Winter was the one period when the 9/8c hour couldn't make up for P&T's declines. The Criss Angel series at 9/8c was an improvement on the year-ago Nancy Drew, but not by a huge margin.
spring
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Charmed | Dynasty | 10 | ||
| 12 | 7 | ||||
| 2022-23 | Penn and Teller: Fool Us (R) | Whose Line Is It Anyway? | The Great American Joke Off | 14 (+41%) | |
| 13 (+6%) | 17 (+148%) | 11 (+60%) | |||
| 14 (+104%) | |||||
| VsAvg | -43% | -34% | -39% | ||
| Rank | 23/24 | 18/24 | 20/24 | ||
Despite Penn airing only a couple original episodes in the spring window, the growth revved up when compared against a weaker scripted lineup from a year ago. The network introduced The Great American Joke Off as a Whose Line? companion but it dropped rather steeply at 9:30.
Rating the Ratings
| Name | Lo | Avg | Hi | y2y | Plus | Label | Plusy2y | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn and Teller: Fool Us | 0 | 0.07 | 0.1 | -28% | 16 | flop | -13% | |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway? | 0 | 0.08 | 0.1 | +2% | 19 | flop | +22% | |
| Criss Angel's Magic with the Stars | 0 | 0.05 | 0.1 | 12 | flop | |||
| The Great American Joke Off | 0 | 0.05 | 0.1 | 12 | flop |
Penn and Teller: Fool Us: This show was very steady in the high-20's for most of its CW run (when it aired in the summer) but now we have some apples-to-apples comparisons in the regular season, and it seems to be losing some steam pretty clearly. Grade: C.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?: The growth is relative to last year when it was charged with re-opening Saturday night for the network, so it's not as impressive as it looks, as it had a 25 Plus in its last Friday run two years ago. However, that run came at 8/7c after local programming, so this was probably tougher than that, and Whose Line? still managed to grow on Penn & Teller regularly. Grade: B-.
Criss Angel's Magic with the Stars: Its average includes a bunch of Saturday episodes from the fall, and like Whose Line? it perked up in a move to Friday. It held the Penn & Teller lead-in OK, but nothing special. Grade: C.
The Great American Joke Off: It dropped quite a bit from Whose Line?, looking quite a bit weaker than the Whose Line? repeats from the fall. Grade: C-.
The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.
Previous Breakdowns for CW Friday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22
Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for CW Friday.
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