The Breakdown: CW Sunday in 2021-22 (Legends of the Hidden Temple, Riverdale)

It's time for a journey through the CW Sunday schedule in 2021-22...


fall

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	Avg
2020-21	Pandora		Pandora	The Outpost		The Outpost	7
	2020-21	7		7	6			6	7
2021-22	Legends of the Hidden Temple		Legends of the Hidden Temple	Masters of Illusion (R)		Masters of Illusion (R)	10 (+48%)
	2021-22	11 (+60%)		11.2011223750905	8 (+35%)			8 (+35%)	9.82723470877082
VsAvg	-66%		-0.656286879372687	-63%		-0.632026417198876	-65%
Rank	10/12		10/12	11/12		11/12	11/12

For Sunday in the fall, the CW resurrected '90s Nickelodeon game show Legends of the Hidden Temple. While it handily outrated last year's imported dramas, it still did not get the night to a competitive place with any of the other weeknights.

winter

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	Avg
2020-21	Batwoman		Batwoman	Charmed		Charmed	17
	2020-21	21		21	13			13	17
2021-22	Legends of the Hidden Temple		Legends of the Hidden Temple	Two Sentence Horror Stories		Two Sentence Horror Stories	9 (-46%)
	2021-22	11 (-45%)		11.2711293899348	7 (-48%)			7 (-48%)	9.09032661134661
VsAvg	-62%		-0.616233498581616	-72%		-0.715343988459091	-66%
Rank	11/12		11/12	12/12		12/12	12/12

The winter had the last episodes of Hidden Temple, plus the end of the docu-drama March which launched to poor results on Monday. The 9/8c hour had season three of the low-priority filler Two Sentence Horror Stories.

spring

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	Avg
2020-21	Legends of Tomorrow		Legends of Tomorrow	Batwoman		Batwoman	15
	2020-21	14		14	16			16	15
2021-22	Riverdale		Riverdale	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R)	Would I Lie to You? (R)	9 (-42%)
	2021-22	9 (-32%)		9.31093297429399	9 (-43%)		7 (-58%)	8.54960668786206
	2021-22							9.31093297429399	9.31093297429399	8.96089790007241	6.61566290278784	8.54960668786206
	2021-22			9.31093297429399	9.31093297429399		8 (-51%)		8 (-51%)	8.54960668786206
VsAvg	-68%		-0.683479968840374	-65%		-0.65370596658943	-67%
Rank	12/12		12/12	12/12		12/12	12/12

The spring saw the arrival of Riverdale, which plunged to even more embarrassing levels on Sunday. It hit a 0.03 on its worst night and never better than 0.06.

Rating the Ratings

Name	Lo	Avg	Hi	y2y	Plus	Label	Plusy2y	Results
Legends of the Hidden Temple	0	0.06	0.1		11	flop
Riverdale*	0	0.06	0.1	-48%	11	flop	-34%	detail

Legends of the Hidden Temple: Kinda hard to know what to do with CW Sunday shows, but we do know it handily outrated last year's import drama Pandora and was clearly a lot weaker than the superhero shows. Not good, and it got the axe, but sadly the CW has proven they can do even worse. Grade: C-.

Riverdale: Already updated.

The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.

Previous Breakdowns for CW Sunday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21

Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for CW Sunday.