Significant transformations are on the horizon for WWE’s TV programming. Monday Night Raw will be transitioning to Netflix starting January, while Friday Night SmackDown is migrating from FOX back to the USA Network. Notably, NXT will also be altering its landscape by moving from USA to the CW Network come next month.
In one of the earliest shifts, veteran NXT shows will face a platform change. As declared by eWn, these shows will be leaving Peacock and find their new home in the CW app.
Insight from WrestleVotes reveals that post NXT’s inaugural show on CW slated for October 1st, Peacock will no longer host NXT episodes, making even deferred viewing infeasible.
Moreover, Peacock envisions to start pulling back on previously aired NXT episodes. The plans regarding whether or not it will stretch to the library inclusive of legacies of Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, and Shinsuke Nakamura from the Full Sail era when NXT gained traction remains cloaked in ambiguity.
It’s likely that everything following NXT 2.0 will be wiped off from Peacock and will be relocated to the CW app, while the fate of Takeover events amidst this shift reasonably hangs in balance.
The NXT 2.0 archives, inclusive of content such as Deadlines and No Mercy may vanish from Peacock. However, much recently aired NXT content may disappear from both WWE Network and Peacock.
Alongside the NXT changes, WWE’s Hulu contract, due for annulment next week, speculates the cessation of the NXT spin-off show, Level Up.
This suggests that the production of NXT Level Up, which provides a platform for the emerging NXT talent and currently airs on Peacock, may head towards discontinuity.
This concludes the stint of NXT Level Up, which kickstarted on February 18, 2022, as the alternative for 205 Live. The show prided itself on presenting fresh talent on the brink of their NXT debuts and was filmed before or after the live Tuesday NXT screening.