Status: Cancelled
Aired: 2019-23, 4 Seasons Totaling 62 Episodes
Series Premiere: October 9, 2019
Network: CW
Starring: Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim, Alex Saxon
Series Website: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/nancy-drew
Description: Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenaged detective whose sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine – until her mother’s untimely death derails Nancy’s college plans. Devastated by her mother’s passing, Nancy swears off crime-solving while crossing off the days until she can re-apply to college. But when a socialite is murdered, Nancy finds herself a prime suspect in the crime, along with a group of other teens present at the scene: Nancy’s nemesis from high school, George Fan (Leah Lewis); a rich girl with a mysterious past, Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani); Nancy’s secret boyfriend, Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Tunji Kasim), and amiable burnout Ace (Alex Saxon). The five of them must team up to clear their own names – encountering emotional entanglements and even more mysteries along the way. Nancy’s reawakening brings her into conflict with her widowed father, Carson Drew (Scott Wolf), who is dating Detective Karen Hart (Alvina August). And, when a supernatural presence begins to haunt Nancy’s investigation, she discovers that the current crime has an astonishing connection to the unsolved murder of a local girl. Whether the ghost is here to help, or hinder Nancy remains to be seen, but one thing’s for sure: Nancy’s going to have to unravel the clues from both the living and the dead to solve the crimes. CWTV.com
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Why Was It Cancelled? Nancy Drew was never a strong ratings performer for The CW, but the show did well enough to get renewed through a fourth season. Had the network not gone through a change in ownership in 2023, the show could have continued to a fifth season and the creative team definitely had plans to keep it going. But it no longer fit into the new CW’s model of inexpensive shows that appeal to an older audience. And apparently the new network brass waited to inform the producers that the show was ending until there were only a few episodes left to film in the fourth season. The writers were still able to give the show some sense of resolution, but they did have more story to tell. And executive producer Larry Teng made the comment that it was a “f*cking shitty way of telling us we were getting canceled”. Perhaps this one could switch to a new venue at some point and continue with additional seasons, but I have not seen much in the way of activity from fans to try and save the show. And with the current writers’ and actors’ strikes, it seems unlikely that anything will happen on that front in the near future.
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