You've got to love when a network obviously shows so much pride in their product that they push a launch date for a series endlessly, dump the thing during the summer months (read: burnoff), and then mess around with the scheduling.In a move, post-Veronica Mars cancellation, that surprises no one, the CW has announced that it will "condense" the airing structure of newbie drama series Hidden Palms and wrap the series on July 4th.
The CW will therefore air back-to-back episodes of Hidden Palms on Wednesday, June 20th and June 27th, from 8-10 pm ET/PT, with the series finale (a.k.a. Episode Eight) planned for Wednesday, July 4th. Because the CW's teen audience will doubtlessly be inside watching the network rather than, you know, watching fireworks or being outside on the Fourth.
Additionally, effective immediately, the CW will drop the Sunday night replays of the teen drama, replacing it with repeats of, yes, Seventh Heaven. (Seventh Heaven's slot will likewise be filled with back-to-back repeats of Reba, another dead series.)
No word yet on what will take over Hidden Palms' vacated timeslot come July 11th.
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As a former WB fanatic, the way The CW is running their network is killing me. I mean, physical pain.
they're going going to end up with nothing but 7thHell reruns and old episodes of "Girlfriends" after they cancel everything else with a storyline.