Riverdale Isn't Airing a New Episode This Week ✖ Riverdale has already covered a lot of ground so far in its fifth season, including bringing its entire plot and roster of characters seven years into the future. Along the way, fans have definitely been treated to some surprising reveals amid the unexpected new status quo -- but they'll have to wait a little bit longer to see exactly where the story goes next. The CW will not be airing a new episode of Riverdale this Wednesday, March 3rd. Instead, the series will be rerunning the second episode of Season 5, "Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Preppy Murders." New episodes of the series will resume the following Wednesday, March 10th, with "Chapter Eighty-Three: Fire in the Sky."