Rueben's Ramblings

It’s that time of year again when the networks make their annual presentations in New York to the advertisers where they announce their proposed fall line-up and announce the new shows they have picked up.

Here is the breakdown for The CW:

SUNDAY

8 PM – Supergirl (New Night)
9 PM – Charmed *

Charmed – After the tragic death of their mother, three sisters in a college town are stunned to discover they are witches. Soon this powerful threesome must stand together to fight the everyday and supernatural battles that all modern witches must face: from vanquishing powerful demons to toppling the patriarchy. The cast includes Melonie Diaz (The Breaks), Sarah Jeffery (Shades of Blue), Madeleine Mantock (Into the Badlands and The Tomorrow People), Rupert Evans (The Man in the High Castle) and Ser’Darius Blain (Survivor’s Remorse and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) [among others].

Here is a trailer for Charmed:

MONDAY

8 PM – DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
9 PM – Arrow (New Night)

TUESDAY

8 PM – The Flash
9 PM – Black Lightning

WEDNESDAY

8 PM – Riverdale
9 PM – All American *

All American – When a rising high school football player from South L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds – Crenshaw and Beverly Hills – begin to collide. The series is inspired by the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger. The cast includes Taye Diggs (Empire and Murder in the First), Monet Mazur (Castle), Cody Christian (Pretty Little Liars), Bre-Z (Empire), Daniel Ezra (The Missing), Greta Onieogou (Heroes: Reborn), Karimah Westbrook (Suburbicon) and Samantha Logan (13 Reasons Why).

Here is a trailer for All American:

THURSDAY

8 PM – Supernatural
9 PM – Legacies *

Legacies – The spin-off to The Vampire Diaries and The Originals begins at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. Klaus Mikaelson’s daughter, 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell from The Originals); Alaric Saltzman’s twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman (relative newcomer Jenny Boyd and Kaylee Bryant from Santa Clarita Diet); and other young adults come of age in the most unconventional way possible, nurtured to be their best selves… in spite of their worst impulses. Will these young witches, vampires and werewolves become the heroes they want to be – or the villains they were born to be? The cast includes Matt Davis (from the flagship series), newcomer Aria Shahghasemi and Quincy Fouse (The Goldbergs).

NOTE: Legacies has no footage to show yet.

FRIDAY

8 PM – Dynasty
9 PM – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

* Denotes new shows

The new dramas picked up by The CW include Roswell, New Mexico and In the Dark. The returning dramas that will be back during mid-season include Jane the Virgin, iZombie and The 100.

Roswell, New Mexico – After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer: he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance. The cast includes Jeanine Mason (Grey’s Anatomy and Bunheads), Nathan Parsons (True Blood), Tyler Blackburn (Pretty Little Liars), Heather Hemmens (If Loving You Is Wrong), newcomer Michael Vlamis, Lily Cowles (Brain Dead), Karan Oberoi (Notorious), Michael Trevino (The Vampire Diaries) and Trevor St. John (Containment).

In the Dark – A flawed and irreverent blind woman is the only “witness” to the murder of her drug-dealing friend. After the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at the guide dog school owned by her overprotective parents. The cast includes Austin Nichols (One Tree Hill), Kathleen York (Jane the Virgin and The Client List), Derek Webster (NCIS: New Orleans and Ray Donovan), Keston John (Bosch) and Perry Mattfeld (Shameless).

The 2018-2019 will be final seasons for the dramas Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and iZombie. The much anticipated Supernatural spin-off Wayward Sisters was NOT picked up, and according to The CW president they, “did not feel that creatively the show was where (they) wanted it to be and we had a better shot with (the new drama) Legacies (the spin-off from The Vampires and The Originals).”