EXCLUSIVE: The 2025 Critics Selection Awards won’t be airing completely on the CW. The published community has opted to not renew the awards present’s present choice for subsequent 12 months, sources inform Deadline. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless doable to see the ceremony on the CW in 2025 because the community is in search of a path to proceed to hold it, shared with one other community or a streamer, I hear. There was an analogous association for the 2022 Critics Selection Awards, simulcast on the CW and TBS.
The Critics Selection Affiliation, run by President Joey Berlin, is alleged to already be in conversations with potential new broadcast companions.
After bouncing round varied networks from 2001-2016 with stints on E!, the WB, VH1, the CW and A&E, the Critics Selection Awards returned to the CW in 2017 and had aired on the community ever since.
The information comes a few months after the 2024 Critics Selection Awards telecast on the CW rebounded a bit, up 14% from the report low 2023 viewership to only over 1 million viewers. In adults 18-49, this 12 months’s ceremony, which confronted a NFL Wild Card matchup, was up 50% vs. 2023.
Sharing the license payment with one other platform would enable the CW to proceed because the present’s longtime residence at these linear viewers ranges whereas additionally complying with the now-independent community’s drive to trim prices in a push towards profitability.
The Critics Selection Awards is an outlier on the CW, the one non-sports reside occasion on the community, which has been bulking up its reside sports activities choices since its October 2022 acquisition by Nexstar. Forward of the CW’s 2023 upfront presentation, the community’s President of Leisure Brad Schwartz praised the awards telecast.
“Creatively that present is one thing we’re very pleased with,” he stated, highlighting its star-studded visitor record and Chelsea Handler’s efficiency as host. “We’re actually proud to be part of it, and we’re excited to maintain going.”
He did admit that reside leisure was not an space the community was dedicating sources to.
“We’re a number of totally different reside occasions, and I believe we are going to do a number of extra like them. However, as we re-imagine and reinvent the CW, we have to focus extra of our cash on issues that may carry individuals again week after week, issues that may carry individuals again season after season,” he stated. “And so, scripted and unscripted sequence is extra the place we ought to be putting our bets. Having stated that, it’s fantastic for us to be in the course of the leisure business and host this wonderful Critics Selection Awards.”