Jared Padalecki Slams The CW’s New Direction as ‘Cheap’ – Hollywood Life
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Jared Padalecki is speaking his thoughts about The CW’s alterations. All by means of a current interview, the 41-yr-old actor received “brutally honest” about the new route of the network, which distributed each of Jared’s most prevalent exhibits Walker and Supernatural.
“I sense like The CW that I was a aspect of final year is not The CW that I was a part of underneath [former CEO] Mark Pedowitz for that complete, pretty much 20-yr extend,” Jared described to Variety in the interview that was posted on Wednesday June 26.
He went on to claim that The CW is “just changing the network all around, wherever it is not really heading to be a Tv set community as much as it’s likely to be, ‘Here’s some thing entertaining for an hour that you will hardly ever observe all over again, but hopefully you enjoy it. And it is low-priced!’”
“And I despise to say that, but I’m just getting honest,” Jared ongoing, just just before adding, “I necessarily mean, f**k it. They cannot fireplace me yet again. I’m just getting brutally straightforward. I feel it felt to me like they ended up on the lookout for genuinely easy, cheap material that they could fill up time with.”
Walker was not also extended ago canceled following 4 seasons on the air. The show joined a string of other series dispersed by The CW that had been also not renewed, collectively with The Winchesters and Gotham Knights. Jared’s earlier Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles manufactured The Winchesters, and Misha starred in Gotham Knights. The two displays have been axed promptly right after one particular period on the air.
Nexstar Media Group acquired a important proportion of The CW in 2022 and has launched unscripted shows to the platform. In the course of his new job interview, Jared pointed out that he spoke with each equally the head of CBS Studios and the head of Nexstar/The CW, contacting the network’s new path a “multivariate variety of issue” from his point of view.
“My understanding is — and all over again, this is just what I’m explained to — that Nexstar is going in a various direction with The CW,” the Gilmore Women alum mentioned. “I mean, they have an hour of Trivial Pursuit and an hour of Scrabble coming up.”
