Jared Padalecki Slams The CW’s New Course as ‘Low-cost’ – Hollywood Life
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Jared Padalecki is talking his thoughts about The CW’s modifications. Throughout a current interview, the 41-year-old actor bought “brutally trustworthy” in regards to the new path of the community, which distributed each of Jared’s hottest reveals Walker and Supernatural.
“I really feel like The CW that I used to be part of final yr is just not The CW that I used to be part of beneath [former CEO] Mark Pedowitz for that total, virtually 20-year stretch,” Jared defined to Selection within the interview that was printed on Wednesday June 26.
He went on to assert that The CW is “simply altering the community round, the place it’s probably not going to be a TV community as a lot because it’s going to be, ‘Right here’s one thing enjoyable for an hour that you just’ll by no means watch once more, however hopefully you watch it. And it’s low-cost!’”
“And I hate to say that, however I’m simply being trustworthy,” Jared continued, earlier than including, “I imply, f**ok it. They’ll’t hearth me once more. I’m simply being brutally trustworthy. I believe it felt to me like they had been searching for very easy, low-cost content material that they might refill time with.”
Walker was just lately canceled after 4 seasons on the air. The present joined a string of different sequence distributed by The CW that had been additionally not renewed, together with The Winchesters and Gotham Knights. Jared’s former Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles produced The Winchesters, and Misha starred in Gotham Knights. Each reveals had been axed after one season on the air.
Nexstar Media Group acquired a big share of The CW in 2022 and has launched unscripted reveals to the platform. Throughout his new interview, Jared identified that he spoke with each the top of CBS Studios and the top of Nexstar/The CW, calling the community’s new path a “multivariate type of subject” from his perspective.
“My understanding is — and once more, that is simply what I’m informed — that Nexstar goes in a special path with The CW,” the Gilmore Ladies alum mentioned. “I imply, they’ve an hour of Trivial Pursuit and an hour of Scrabble developing.”