‘Nancy Drew’ EP Slams The CW for Hiding Series Cancellation: ‘They Suck… Plain F—ing Disrespect’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld The CW’s “Nancy Drew” aired its final episode on Wednesday, following last year’s news that Season 4 of the detective series would be its last.
At the time, showrunners Noga Landau and Melinda Hsu Taylor said they were “full of gratitude, knowing that we were able to bring this chapter to a close with intentionality,” but executive producer Larry Teng is telling a different story.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, the EP said The CW did not tell the “Nancy Drew” team that the network planned to cancel the show until a “random call 3/4 into our season.” According to Teng, “Nancy Drew” star Kennedy McMann “was in line to shoot ‘The Good Lawyer,'” so her agent called CBS Studios (a production company behind “Nancy Drew”) to ask about scheduling in regards to “Nancy Drew” Season 5.
CBS then apparently made a call to The CW “right around the time [the writers] were in prep on Episode 410,” which, unbeknownst to the “Nancy Drew” team, would become the series finale.
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