CW’s Reaper Season 2: Cancel or Keep?
Will the CW’s Reaper return for a second season? Will you have another year of watching Sam and Andi try to make a go of it, and continue in the fight against Hell’s absentees? The CW will spend the remaining few episodes analyzing the ratings, and comparing them to their expectations of any new gems and drivel that crawl across their desks. Speculation about the show’s fate, as well as that of other shows, is dismal, at this point.
It doesn’t help that The CW, the child of Warner Brothers and CBS Corp, has been flagging all season. Ratings for even its best shows fall short of those on competing networks. The whole industry has suffered as a result of the writers’ strike, but The CW, already struggling to find a foothold among its target audience of 18-34 year olds, has been hit hardest. In fact, that “target” audience is Reaper’s failing point, in the eyes of the network’s executives. All season long, Reaper has consistently beat out fellow freshman show Gossip Girl, but with a somewhat older crowd. The 18-34 demo has been higher for GG than for Reaper, so, CW execs committed the otherwise seemingly questionable act of renewing Gossip Girl early, but waiting on Reaper.
So, what of Reaper in the 2008-2009 season? Will the CW cancel Reaper, in a Fox-like, only-the-right-numbers-matter, flick of the pen? Of course, between now and the CW schedule announcements, expected on May 13, there are things that Reaper fans can do to help the show.
- Watch the show, especially when it’s airing.
- Have a Reaper party for the last three episodes.
- Tell your friends to watch the show.
- Visit the Reaper site at CWTV.com, and look at all the features there.
- Leave comments in the forums at CWTV.com.
- Vote “YES” for Reaper on any Sink or Swim polls that pop up on the internet.
- Put Reaper logos on your notebooks and book covers.
- Visit your local CW affiliate’s website, and leave comments about the show.
What else could fans do to help Reaper? Reaper fans are above-average intelligence, and, apparently, above average in experience. So, we should be able to come up with some good ideas in the next two weeks. Leave a comments with any thoughts or ideas you have.
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29 opinions for CW’s Reaper Season 2: Cancel or Keep?
Angie Butler
Apr 30, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I’m way out of the demo. that CW is aiming for, but in my opinion, Reaper is one of the best new shows! It would be a real shame for CW to cancel it now.
Zak Wallace
Apr 30, 2008 at 8:58 pm
My roommates and I watch this show religiously, I hope it doesn’t get canceled
Mike Moody
May 1, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I love Reaper and it’s only gotten better. It’s one of the most interesting, quirky and charming things on TV. I hope fans will heed your advice on how to show support for this series. I’m gonna suggest all my friends do the same.
Bernie Minarik
May 1, 2008 at 7:46 pm
For the first time ever, my wife and I have a CW show in our permanent TV schedule: Reaper. What a great and thoroughly enjoyable show. The cast is simply terrific and the writing is sharp and witty. We love it! We can’t believe it’s “on the bubble.” Boston Legal? Women’s Murder Club? The Unit? You can have ‘em. We want REAPER!!!
C. Ko
May 1, 2008 at 11:40 pm
I’m out of the demo, too, but love the show anyway. I think it has a very broad appeal and is just gaining in popularity.
David M.
May 1, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Love the show and I can only hope we get a second season. Start sending those socks to the network, people!
Rachoness
May 2, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I find it so ridiculous the amount of shows that have been cancelled following the writers strike, they havent given any shows the chance to recover, and its all the original shows, shows which bring something new. Give reaper a chance, its an awesome show, I love it over here in England, and would hate to see it cancelled.
missy
May 3, 2008 at 1:39 am
Ohmygod, I love Reaper! It is one of the best shows on tv and I will be so mad if the CW decides to cancel it! Other shows out there get the chance to last but this probably won’t? It’s not fair. This show is funny and it has this charm that makes you just wanna keep watching. And it gets better by the episode. I hope the new episodes and fans give the Cw a new perspective.
alexis
May 5, 2008 at 12:35 am
I am in the demographic, but aren’t ratings ratings. people are watching. this is a great show, in fact the only one that i watch on the cw.
Peter B.
May 6, 2008 at 6:55 am
i absolutely love the show! its the only show on the CW that i’ve taken time out of my schedule to watch every week. heck i practically went insane during the writer’s strike without my weekly dose of sock, and i dont think i could handle the show getting canceled. for the love of satan (and god), DO NOT CANCEL REAPER!!!!
JULS
May 7, 2008 at 12:28 am
REAPER is awesome! The humor is witty and intelligent. The actors do a great job. I really hope it doesn’t get cancelled. I watch this show without fail.
James
May 7, 2008 at 1:04 am
This is my favorite new show! I will be very upset if it doesn’t get picked up for a second season.
Aaron
May 7, 2008 at 11:17 am
WHY!!! I have lost so many good shows. Ok I know that makes me sound like my life is tv, it isnt. I have maybe 10 shows I watch a week. And this is one that I really look forward to. 3 of my shows are on this network, and if one of them has to go I think supernatural, it has lost whatever made it great.
Nathanael
May 8, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I love this show
from benji and socks comedy relief efforts to the devil one-liners, if they cancel the show it will only be because more people don’t know what they are missng and thats just goes to to how that the cw needs to get the word out there better
Jack
May 27, 2008 at 4:02 am
I love Reaper!
I’m definitely in the demographic and I love it, it’s been more captivating every episode that passes, and I was left breathless on the last two episodes! I will cry for all eternity if it gets cancelled
beyourselfmert
May 27, 2008 at 3:06 pm
First sorry about my english :D:D they just cant cancel the show.This is my favourite show ever.If you want to loose reaper fans cancel the show then.This is Reaper’s first season give the show another chance.
So dont cancel the show please!!!!! I want at least 2 more seasons.
NaNuSchi
May 29, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I would sell my soul to the devil if I could get that “mind-controlling-thing” to make CW not to cancel Reaper!
This show is just the best!
Don’t cancel it!!! PLEASE!
Dave
May 30, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I’m well outside the demo and this show is the only reason I watch the CW. It’s refreshing to see something smart and funny amidst the garbage “reality tv”, or shows well passed their prime. It’s the best show on the network, period. I couldn’t care less for any of their other shows. Who knows, if they do cancel we can always hope another network is smart enough to pick it up. Cancel it and I have no reason to tune in to the CW.
Laura
Jun 14, 2008 at 2:52 am
I am definitely not the target demo for the CW, but Reaper seems to give the channel a glint of credibilty in a blinding glare of reality programming. I stumbled across the show by accident and have been watching it all season. Not only keep Reaper for another season, but consider more shows like it!
Gamecuber7
Jun 23, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Reaper should definitely have a second season! They left way too many questions unanswered in the first. And the show is awesome and hilarious at the same time! Shows this good or interesting are rare, so at least get to a stopping point before just canceling it!
jack
Jun 25, 2008 at 6:51 pm
they wont cancel reaper… unless that dancing frog thing from the wb comes back …lol
Autumn
Jun 28, 2008 at 5:21 am
Reaper is Great! I’m watching religiously, over and over, the few episodes that we have. Love ‘Cancun’! It added so much to the mystery of Sam. And ‘Coming to Grips’ has possibly the funniest scene with the soul falling from the ceiling.
cassie
Jun 28, 2008 at 5:53 pm
can’t believe they are even considering caneling this show. i have to admit it started kinda slow and ify but its gotten so good. as its grown its gotten much deeper and a little darker making it all the more mysterious. as a person who doesn’t watch the CW and missed the begining of the series i found all the episodes and over two days watched every single one of them. i will be very disapointed to see this show disappear
Anonymous
Jul 6, 2008 at 2:19 am
L.O.V.E. Reaper! How can you go wrong with a show about the Devil, mystery, magic, etc…???
I’m part of the old Angel demo and it’s been a long time since anything good has come on! Makes me wonder what CW is doing sometimes thinking about cancelling the show!
Willy T
Jul 30, 2008 at 9:32 pm
REAPER is one of the greatest TV shows ever!
The characters are BRILLIANT and the plot is fantastic…
Will there be a Season 2? Of course.
They’d be mad to cancel this, if they do I’ll buy the rights and air the second season myself! Lol.
Asshole
Aug 5, 2008 at 2:42 pm
OMW if they cancel this show my life might just as well be over, Lets start a group on Facebook so that we can make a petition like thing to stop CW from having these stupid idea of canceling Reaper. Reapers whole plot, characters, humor is awesome. It beats Smallville, Heroes, Desperate Housewives, and all the other shows with their stupid dragged out story lines.
LONG LIVE REAPER!!!!!!!!!!!
Reaperette
Aug 6, 2008 at 1:13 am
KEEP KEEP KEEP KEEP. If CW cancels Reaper, I’ll never watch the station again!!!!! I’ll make sure the CW takes Judas’s place in hell. (OK so I don’t believe in any of this god/devil religious crap but Dante’s Inferno was one helluva read. Pun intended.)
Jessica
Aug 14, 2008 at 9:44 am
Did they cancel it? I can’t find anything on the web about it, and the CW website isn’t very helpful. I do love this show.
Michelle
Aug 29, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Aww man, I love this show. Come on CW leave it for the fans you have.
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