If the CW has nothing to air as a replacement, CRE could stick around. When Cheers premiered in 1982, the ratings were horrendous for the first two seasons. NBC was in third place and had nothing in the pipeline as a replacement. In the fall of 1984, Cosby arrived. Ratings for Facts of Life and Cheers went through the roof. Unfortunately for the CW, and their much larger network cousins, no Cosby like ratings rescuers are on the horizon.

Tomas Barlow wrote:

You seem really interested in ratings during a strike during re-run season.  It seems more than obvious that there will be some very small numbers for quite some time.

The very small numbers were happening for the US OTA networks long before the strike.  Last year the new fall season was pretty much a non event with ratings for new and some returning shows not much different from the summer programming.  

This year there won't be a traditional fall season.  If the strike were to continue into late September or early October there will be a vastly scaled back second season in January/February/March. Watch for more sports and game shows.

Also I do find it interesting that CW which seems to be hanging on by a thread, is attempting to get through the summer into fall with largely imported programming in prime time and mostly Canadian at that.  But again CW's tiny ratings in prime time with few exceptions is nothing new.

I would certainly prefer to talk at least as much about Canadian ratings, but the cozy cabal that is broadcasting in this country likes to keep ratings a secret.  Which to me is odd since up until Numeris cut off the weekly updates almost a year ago, Canadian OTA networks were not fairing that bad.  The weekly top thirty while sliding in some areas still had a good variety of healthy numbers.  Even some domestic shows.