Riverdale to Finish With Season 7 at CW, to Premiere in 2023

Pop’s diner is closing its doorways for good: Riverdale will finish its run on The CW on the conclusion of its upcoming seventh season, TVLine has realized.

Riverdale was renewed for Season 7 in March, together with fellow CW dramas The Flash, All American, Superman & Lois, Walker, Kung Fu and Nancy Drew. Season 6 is presently airing Sundays at 8/7c; Season 7 is being held for midseason, to air someday in 2023. (To see The CW’s just-released fall 2022 schedule, click here.)

This TV season (which incorporates three Season 5 stragglers), Riverdale is averaging 560,000 whole viewers with Stay+7 DVR playback factored in. It thus ranks No. 16 in whole viewers out of the 19 dramas The CW has aired this fall and winter, outdrawing solely The Outpost, Within the Darkish and Dynasty.

Riverdale joins a lot of CW dramas on the chopping block: The community additionally axed Dynasty, Charmed, Naomi, 4400, In the Dark and Roswell, New Mexico final week — Within the Darkish and Roswell nonetheless have new seasons premiering this summer season — together with the beforehand cancelled Batwoman and Legends of Tomorrow. The CW’s atypical “massacre” of cancellations this season is probably going as a result of community’s rumored upcoming sale (maybe to the Nexstar affiliate group) and thus its unsure future.

Season 6 of Riverdale kicked off final fall with a five-episode “Rivervale” occasion that noticed Archie and firm face a macabre collection of supernatural adventures, with Kiernan Shipka stopping by to reprise her Netflix position as teen witch Sabrina Spellman. It then returned in March with a brand new time slot and a recent nemesis in Percival Pickens (Chris O’Shea), the luxurious newcomer who rapidly took over the city along with his mysterious mind-control powers. However don’t fear: Archie, Betty, Jughead and Cheryl quickly realized they’d mysterious powers of their very own.

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