The CW Renews The 100 For Season Two
The new sci-fi drama will survive to a second season with the Grounders
The CW’s new science fiction drama The 100 will be back next season. The network today renewed the series for the 2014-2015 broadcast season, reassuring viewers who are just getting into the new show. (This is in line with yesterday’s renewal prediction.)
Eight episodes of Season One‘s 13-episode run have aired to date. The show premiered to a strong 2.73 million viewers on March 19 (airing behind Arrow on Wednesday nights), and has averaged 1.985 million weekly (Live + Same Day).
It’s great news for what has quickly become one of our favorite new shows of the season.
The 100 is perhaps the most “traditional” sci-fi series in the network’s history, set a century after the Earth’s surface was rendered uninhabitable by nuclear war. The survivors of the human race live on board the Ark — an orbiting space station made up of the smaller stations of multiple nations, which banded together after the disaster.
Now their original inhabitants of several hundred people have multiplied to several thousand, and air is running low. In the series premiere the leaders of the fragile government ordered 100 juvenile prisoners (all prisoners are juvenile, since adults are “floated” out an airlock for virtually any offense) sent to the planet’s surface. The goal was to determine if Earth was able to be resettled … but, of course, things only get more complicated from there.
Executive producer Jason Rothenberg will continue to run the show for Warner Bros TV.
There’s no word yet on the number of episodes The 100 will have for its second season (Deadline believes it will be fewer than a full, 22-episode season). We’re also still waiting to hear whether Season Two will premiere in the fall, or if the series will remain a mid-season show.
The CW will formally announce its plans for next year’s schedule on Thursday, May 15.
Bubble shows Hart of Dixie and Beauty and the Beast were also renewed today, while The Tomorrow People, Star-Crossed, and The Carrie Diaries were cancelled.
Arrow, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Reign were previously renewed for next year.
It really sucks when you get into a new series and watch it religiously every week until the season finale, only to find out that you will never get to find out what the hell happened. . As this is what happened to me on Star Crossed, Believe, Crisis and so so many more that I could not possibly name. Oh ya and the show Siberia.
Hate the fact I got so into starcrossed and I’m on the edge of my seat to see what happens but never will know defiantly need to re think the starcrossed move you’ve made