Jared Padalecki has blasted The CW after 'Walker’s cancellation. The 41-year-old actor has worked with the network for over 20 years on shows including 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Supernatural' but admitted he is disappointed that it appears to be moving away from scripted television to "really easy, cheap content". He told Variety: "I feel like The CW that I was a part of last year is not The CW that I was a part of under [former chairman and CEO] Mark Pedowitz for that entire, almost 20-year stretch.
They’re just changing the network around, where it’s not really going to be a TV network as much as it’s going to be, 'Here’s something fun for an hour that you’ll never watch again, but hopefully you watch it. And it’s cheap!' And I hate to say that, but I’m just being honest. I mean, f*** it.
They can’t fire me again. I’m just being brutally honest. I think it felt to me like they were looking for really easy, cheap content that they could fill up time with.
"I talked with the head of CBS [Studios] and the head of Nexstar/CW, I talked with the other [executive producers] on 'Walker', and I think it was a multivariate kind of issue. My understanding is — and again, this is just what I’m told — that Nexstar is going in a different direction with The CW. I mean, they have an hour of 'Trivial Pursuit' and an hour of 'Scrabble' coming up.
I don’t know why you wouldn’t just download the app or grab a board game and play with your friends, but they’re clearl.
