CW adds three shows and Sundays
CW is adding three new series — and a sixth night of programming, on Sundays — to a fall schedule that offers
12 hours of scripted series, more than ABC, NBC and Fox.
Among them are a remake of Charmed, the fantasy drama about witches that ran from 1998 to 2006 on predecessor network WB, and Legacies, a spinoff of its former hit The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.
Missing from the lineup: The 100, which will again return in midseason along with two new dramas. One is a new take on another former WB series, Roswell, about aliens in the New Mexico tourist town, which aired from 1999 to
2002. Also held: Jane the Virgin and iZombie, which will end their runs next season along with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Charmed stars Melonie Diaz and Sarah Jeffery as sibling college students in a new version of the witchy drama, plans for which drew protests from fans and even the original series’ star, Holly Marie Combs. The show will return on its former night, and CW chief Mark Pedowitz urged critics to watch it before they decide.
All American is a soapy drama starring Daniel Ezra as Spencer James, a high school football player (and model student) in South Los Angeles who is recruited to join the upper-crust Beverly Hills High School team by its coach (Taye Diggs).
And Legacies follows the next generation of supernatural teens as The Sal- vatore School for the Young and Gifted: the witch, vampire and werewolf offspring of characters from the earlier series on which it’s based, including Klaus Mikaelson’s daughter, Alaric Saltzman’s twins and others.
Only two returning series, DC Com- ics-inspired Arrow and Supergirl, are moving to new nights. A pair of last season’s new dramas, Valor and Life Sentence, have been canceled, and Pedowitz says he didn’t pick up Wayward Sisters, an anticipated spinoff of Supernatural (which ended its 13th season Thursday), because “we did not feel creatively that the show was where it needed to be.”