After a tumultuous year, the major networks were back – albeit virtually – with upfront presentations, announcing their proposed fall line-ups that include all of the returning shows and the new shows that will debuting.
Here is the breakdown for The CW:
Monday
8 PM All American
9 PM 4400 [NEW]
4400: Based on the original USA Network drama, this new take will follow 4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years who are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them. As the government races to analyze the potential threat and contain the story, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they’ve been returned with a few… upgrades, and the increasing likelihood that they were all brought back now for a specific reason. The cast includes Joseph David-Jones (Arrow), Brittany Adebumola (Grand Army), Jaye Ladymore (Chicago P.D.), Amarr Wooten (American Housewife), Cory Jeacoma (Power Book II: Ghost) and Derrick A. King (Call Your Mother).
Tuesday
8 PM The Flash
9 PM Riverdale (New Night)
NOTE: Both shows, The Flash and Riverdale, will kick off their new seasons with what The CW is calling “five-episode events.” The Flash‘s five-episode event will feature crossovers with yet-to-be-determined Arrowverse characters as well.
Wednesday
8 PM DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (New Night)
9 PM Batwoman (New Night)
Thursday
8 PM Walker
9 PM Legacies
Friday
8 PM Penn & Teller: Fool Us
9 PM Nancy Drew (New Night)
Saturday
8 PM Whose Line Is it Anyway (New Night)
9 PM World’s Funniest Animals (New Night)
Sunday
8 PM Legends of the Hidden Temple [New Game Show]
9 PM Killer Camp [New Game Show]
The following renewed dramas will return during mid-season: Charmed, DC’s Stargirl, Dynasty, In the Dark, Kung Fu, Roswell, New Mexico and Superman & Lois while the brand new dramas All American: Homecoming and Naomi will also debut during mid-season.
All American: Homecoming – The spinoff follows a young tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills and an elite baseball player from Chicago as they contend with the high stakes of college sports, while also navigating the highs, lows and sexiness of unsupervised early adulthood at a prestigious Historically Black College. The cast includes Geffri Maya (All American), Peyton Alex Smith (Legacies), Cory Hardrict (S.W.A.T. and The Oath), Kelly Jenrette (Manhunt and Grandfathered), Sylvester Powell (Five Points) and Camille Hyde (Katy Keene).
Naomi: Based on DC Comics characters, the drama will follow a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins, and what she discovers will challenge everything we believe about our heroes. The cast includes Kaci Walfall (Army Wives), Barry Watson (7th Heaven), Alexander Wraith (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Cranston Johnson (Hap and Leonard), Mouzam Makkar (The Fix and Champions), Mary-Charles Jones (Kevin Can Wait) and Aidan Gemme (Broadway’s Finding Neverland).
NOTE: The CW’s live-action adaptation of the Powerpuff Girl, to be entitled Powerpuff, is being overhauled and re-shot because the initial pilot was “too campy” and not as rooted in reality as network execs would have liked. And, the prequel to the long-running post-apocalyptic series The 100 is still under discussions.
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