The CW as we knew it will die after one more season of "All American"

"All American" is one of the longest-running shows in the history of The CW. It is, in turn, the end of an era. If you are old enough, you will recall the days of The WB and UPN. Those two networks merged together into the joint effort The CW. The CW debuted in 2006, and while it had some carry over shows from The WB and UPN, it became its own entity. Mostly, it became a place for DC superhero shows with a limited scope of scale and ambition. The CW was owned jointly by Warner Bros. and CBS until 2022.

in 2022, The CW was sold to an entity called Nexstar. Nexstar was solely interested in profit, and as a second, maybe third, tier over-the-air network, the decision came to slash budgets. In the Nexstar era, some non-scripted shows have continued to exist. However, "All Americcan" is the last scripted show from the Warner Bros./CBS era to continue on-air.

That means when "All American" concludes during the 2025-26 season, it will be the end of scripted shows from the original The CW era. From here on out, it's all profit-driven Nexstar entities, and of course it won't be looking to get into scripted programming. Everything that has been done to date by Nexstar has been joint offerings. Scripted programming hasn't died, but the landscape is different. "All American" marks the end of an era of The CW, the era birthed from the days of UPN and The WB. In terms of the history of television, that is significant.

(h/t The Hollywood Reporter)