Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's guide to surviving the Friday Night Death Slot

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BY SUSAN VELAZQUEZ · OCTOBER 27, 2016

The CW is lucky that the team behind Crazy Ex-Girlfriend isn’t actually crazy.

One can only imagine the boiled bunnies that would crop up in network executives’ pots after the CW announced that for the fall 2016 schedule, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend would air on Friday nights after The Vampire Diaries, a teen melodrama about vampires that I bet you forgot was still on the air.

It’s a strange move considering that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is critically acclaimed, won what is only the network’s second Golden Globe, has quirky musical numbers that go viral, and features Rachel Bloom’s rack on a regular basis.

It’s likely that the CW split Crazy Ex-Girlfriend up from its equally quirky and equally acclaimed Monday night partner Jane the Virgin to accommodate the arrival of Supergirl, and the musical comedy got the short end of the schedule switcheroo due to the fact it’s never been as highly rated as CW’s DC superhero dramas.

Nevertheless, everyone knows that very few shows survive the Friday Night Death Slot. Does this mean the CW is preparing Crazy Ex-Girlfriend for the axe? Or is the CW hoping the show can grab steadier ratings on a night with less competition?

Either way, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend can learn valuable lessons from the shows that were slaughtered by and survived Friday night.