WWE Superstars WWE Superstars was a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) that originally aired on WGN America in the United States . It debuted on April 16 , 2009 and the final WGN America televised episode aired on April 7 , 2011 . The show then shifted to WWE . com from April 14 , 2011 until February 28 , 2014 . After the launch of the WWE Network the show shifted from WWE . com to the network on March 7 , 2014 . Four days after the show aired on WWE Network , " WWE Superstars " has been cancelled following the premiere of " 205 Live " . Show history . On December 19 , 2008 , WWE and WGN America announced an agreement to create a new weekly , one - hour prime time series entitled " WWE Superstars " that was to debut in April 2009 . The show featured stars from all the WWE brands . In early 2009 , WGN put out a press release hyping the revived series and revealed its new time slot for its debut . " Superstars " airs Thursday nights at 8 : 00 pm Eastern / 7 : 00 pm Central . A replay airs at noon on Sunday WGN America . Until early 2010 the replay also aired on WGN - TV . However , it was removed , hence eliminating distribution of the show from the Canadian fanbase . " Superstars " had its debut show on April 16 , 2009 . On March 17 , 2011 , WGN America announced that they would not renew their domestic broadcasts rights to " WWE Superstars " and the last episode they would air would be shown on April 7 , 2011 . Online reports stated that the network did not renew the series because it didn ' t live up to its expectations . WWE . com aired the show from April 14 , 2011 until September 22 , 2011 when it was removed from the website due to low viewing returns . The show is still in production for international broadcasting . However , it was announced on October 5 , 2011 on Twitter by " WWE Superstars " commentator Scott Stanford that " WWE Superstars " will return to WWE . com beginning October 6 , 2011 and will air Thursdays 4 : 00 pm Eastern / 3 : 00 pm Central / 1 : 00 pm Pacific with " WWE NXT " also having moved to a new day and time Wednesdays at 4 : 00 pm Eastern / 3 : 00 pm Central / 1 : 00 pm Pacific . Production . The theme song for WWE Superstars was " New Day Coming " by CFO $ featuring Todd Clark , which replaced " Invincible " by Adelitas Way on May 17 , 2013 . " WWE Superstars " used the same universal WWE entrance set that has been used for WWE ' s primary television programs " Raw " , " ECW " , and " SmackDown " , since January 2008 . Although WWE promoted the series as a television program that took place during one night , in reality , the matches that are set for the event are taped earlier than the broadcast day . These matches were taped during the " Raw " , " ECW " , and " SmackDown " recordings on Mondays and Tuesdays , respectively , and are then aired Thursdays during " Superstars " . As a result , the show featured brand - specific commentary throughout the show , as each brand ' s respective commentators announce the match for their particular show . Also the colors of the ropes change depending on the brand that was wrestling . The colors of the ring ropes were blue for SmackDown , white for Raw and were grey during the matches of the now defunct ECW brand .