Wild Cards, a Canadian police procedural, has become a surprise hit for The CW. The series, which stars Grey’s Anatomy’s Giacomo Gianniotti, Riverdale’s Vanessa Morgan and Jason Priestley, launched in January.
It has been averaging over 500,000 in the live overnights, per Nielsen, which The CW President of Entertainment Brad Schwartz goes to around 1M over the first seven days.
This is what constitutes a hit for the network. “That’s a nice success for us. If we can do seven nights a week with a million viewers, that would be goal number one, then two million,” he told Deadline.
Schwartz added that he has already begun discussing a second season of the show, which comes from Blink49 Studios. “We have not renewed it yet but that is a conversation that’s happening right now.
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