The CW looks to be done with the weekly Friday night WWE series “Smackdown,” according to a report from Variety (and everywhere else).

The news itself isn’t exactly shocking. As the Variety article says, “wrestling didn’t always fit in with the femme focus the CW has tried to cultivate” - how about ever? But it was a consistently solid performer on Fridays, a pretty dead night for any network these days, and new 52 weeks a year (and was since it debuted on CW antecedent UPN in 1999). Plus, they didn’t actually produce “Smackdown,” so costs had to have minimal on their end.

It’ll be interesting to see where “Smackdown” goes from here, and WWE is shopping it around. One of the NBC Universal properties is a natural starting point. USA already has “WWE Raw” on Monday nights; it’s always near the top of the able ratings but it’s doubtful they’d want to add another two hours and become seen as “the wrestling channel.” Fellow NBC Universal channel Sci Fi airs “ECW,” another WWE program, on Tuesdays, so there’s a possibility there, too. MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo are all just about impossible for obvious reasons, despite the recent appearance of the WWE Divas on “Project Runway” (which was completely predicated on its inherent absurdity) and the frequent WWE-esque tenor of the discourse on “Hardball.” Wrestling journalist extraordinaire Dave Meltzer says that MyNetwork TV is a good bet - makes sense.