CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025

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CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025 Oct 11, 2024 12:49:38 GMT -5

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Post by MarioGS on Oct 11, 2024 12:49:38 GMT -5

Season 5 of CWOF was originally supposed to air on non-MNF Mondays grouped with Press Your Luck and What Would You Do?, to premiere on October 7. The game shows were delayed to October 14 to accommodate an episode of Dancing with the Stars that was pre-empted by the VP debate.

Now, ABC has decided to add more national MNF broadcasts for nearly every Monday for the rest of 2024 (except November 11 and December 2). Aside from this impacting the syndicated WOF on the West Coast, WWYD? is being moved to Wednesdays and CWOF and PYL are both being delayed to sometime in 2025. Knowing ABC, CWOF will probably be paired with Celebrity Jeopardy! (which was slated for 2025 from the start), which would be the second time now that CWOF was originally slated to be paired with PYL only for a last-minute change to be paired with some form of primetime J!

All promos for Season 5 have been removed from ABC and CWOF's socials. It is worth noting that Season 5 had a holiday special taped (like Seasons 3 and 4), with production code #PT-507. Surely this won't be held all the way to December 2025.

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bevy Made It and Played It Posts: 115 Airdate: 12/10/18 Winnings: $54,665 SPIN ID: BY00329	CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025 Oct 11, 2024 16:22:00 GMT -5 genius2751 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by bevy on Oct 11, 2024 16:22:00 GMT -5 Bummer, I was looking forward to it next week

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CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025 Oct 11, 2024 23:37:59 GMT -5 via Tapatalk

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Oct 11, 2024 12:49:38 GMT -5 MarioGS said:

It is worth noting that Season 5 had a holiday special taped (like Seasons 3 and 4), with production code #PT-507. Surely this won't be held all the way to December 2025.

Well, hopefully, it airs in January. But this is a bit disappointing.

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CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025 Oct 12, 2024 11:38:07 GMT -5

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Post by billygr on Oct 12, 2024 11:38:07 GMT -5

Given how things keep getting changed, it could still be possible to have that one lonely holiday themed show pop up somewhere before 2025.

Since most of the stations do a variety of holiday special offerings, it wouldn't be that difficult to pop it in someplace (for instance, some night that they have a 2-hour special to show, fill the 3rd hour with this).

Flerbert419 Producer Posts: 605	CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025 Oct 12, 2024 16:30:49 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Flerbert419 on Oct 12, 2024 16:30:49 GMT -5 Thanks for this update, I was trying to figure out what was happening because there have been so many ABC changes. Disappointing that we have to wait.

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CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025 Oct 13, 2024 11:25:47 GMT -5

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Post by MarioGS on Oct 13, 2024 11:25:47 GMT -5

I knew something was up when they still hadn't decided what episode would be the premiere just two business days out. Granted, Season 5 finished taping on October 6-7 but I doubt they would have chosen anything from #PT-507 to 510 since they would have an extremely short turnaround time to get one of those edited and ready for air.

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CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025 Oct 14, 2024 23:07:37 GMT -5

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Post by MarioGS on Oct 14, 2024 23:07:37 GMT -5

This is embarrassing on the network's part... East Coast ABC O&O airings of the October 14 episode of Jeopardy! included a plug for the CWOF season premiere in the corner of the screen during the contestant interviews. What makes this even more erroneous is that, prior to the change, WABC was planning to pre-empt the premiere because they were planning to air the Bills/Jets MNF game locally (before ABC made it national), even though WABC still added the plug during J!

I'm actually surprised to see that anything WOF-related was promoted during an airing of J!; they rarely do that compared to vice-versa.

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CWOF Season 5 delayed (again) to 2025

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Post by bevy on Oct 11, 2024 16:22:00 GMT -5

Post by genius2751 on Oct 11, 2024 23:37:59 GMT -5

Post by billygr on Oct 12, 2024 11:38:07 GMT -5

Post by Flerbert419 on Oct 12, 2024 16:30:49 GMT -5

Post by MarioGS on Oct 13, 2024 11:25:47 GMT -5

Post by SmashWhammy on Oct 13, 2024 11:35:18 GMT -5

Post by MarioGS on Oct 14, 2024 23:07:37 GMT -5