Aly Michalka, Robbie Jones and Ashley Tisdale star in "Hellcats"
As promised, here is the official schedule The CW released yesterday. We made a few predictions as to how it would shake out on Wednesday, and it looks like a couple of our wild guesses actually came to pass.
The development I am the most curious to discuss with fellow viewers is The CW’s decision to move “Supernatural” to Fridays. “Smallville” seemed to do OK there during the ’09-10 season, so it’s not the worst thing to happen…still, this Winchester fan is a tad concerned. (Not to mention a bit miffed to have to sacrifice her Friday nights due to her allegiance to Sam and Dean…darn.)
All times are ET/PT. New series are in bold. Descriptions taken from the network press release follow.
MONDAY
8 PM “90210″
9 PM “Gossip Girl”
TUESDAY
8 PM “One Tree Hill”
9 PM “Life Unexpected”
WEDNESDAY
8 PM “America’s Next Top Model”
9 PM “Hellcats”
THURSDAY
8 PM “The Vampire Diaries”
9 PM “Nikita”
FRIDAY
8 PM “Smallville”
9 PM “Supernatural”
New series descriptions
“HELLCATS” is a coming-of-age story about Marti Perkins, a young, pre-law student at Lancer University in Memphis, Tennessee. Marti is cool, hip and alt, but her world flips upside down, literally and figuratively, when she loses her scholarship, and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer’s legendary cheerleading team, The Hellcats. Against her every instinct, Marti goes for it and makes the squad, and is thrust into a world of camaraderie, backstabbing and the intersection of sports, backroom academia and big money. Marti’s new roommate, Savannah Monroe, a petite, peppy Texan, is among the diverse cast of athletes, undergrads, family and friends, all set on the sprawling campus of a powerhouse college football program in the deep South.
“NIKITA” When she was a deeply troubled teenager, Nikita was rescued from death row by a secret U.S. agency known only as Division, who faked her execution and told her she was being given a second chance to start a new life and serve her country. What they didn’t tell her was that she was being trained as a spy and assassin. Ultimately, Nikita was betrayed and her dreams shattered by the only people she thought she could trust. Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita is seeking retribution and making it clear to her former bosses that she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy their covert operation. For the time being, however, Division continues to recruit and train other young people, erasing all evidence of their former lives and turning them into cold and efficient killers. One of these new recruits, Alex, is just beginning to understand what lies ahead for her and why the legendary Nikita made the desperate decision to run.
#1 by Mo Ryan - May 21st, 2010 at 14:31
I think it could be a good move, actually. The pressure won’t be on the show to deliver huge ratings, and Thursday is actually an incredibly competitive night. Maybe Supernatural’s ratings will actually go up! Who knows. I don’t think they’ll go down, given how loyal the show’s fans are. As you said, Smallville did just fine there this past season. I think it’ll be cool.
But what do I know
#2 by Monique - May 24th, 2010 at 19:31
Can’t wait until the fall season, OTH, 90210 and ANTM are my favorite shows…OTH is the best
#3 by webdiva - August 6th, 2010 at 10:21
What’s with all these stupid remakes — has imagination failed completely in Hollyweird? More to the point, WHY a remake of La Femme Nikita when 1) the series – a cult hit, no less – was a smash and hasn’t even been gone for a full decade yet, 2) really good series like La Femme Nikita don’t need reinvention, and the success of such iconic shows just makes a remake that much harder/less necessary? La Femme Nikita didn’t just become a cult favorite: it set a precedent for all later spy-fi shows, including Alias, Burn Notice, Human Target, and covert Affairs. Moreover, the storyline in La Femme Nikita was left open-ended but with bitter irony: with Nikita firmly in charge as the new Operations in the organization she despises but concedes is necessary, yet permanently separated from the one person who made it all worthwhile: Michael, for perfectly sound reasons. Logic would dictate that it makes far more sense to take up where the story left off and explore Nikita’s ambivalence about running the place she hates, and how that plays out in today’s post-9/11 world. But no: the doofuses who thought revisiting Nikita this early decided instead to backtrack to the brief period when she was on the run. What is this, Nikita crossed with Prison Break?!? How useless is *that*?? Frankly, I hope it flunks early, just as that other walking abortion of a show, FlashForward, deservedly washed out after departing wholesale from Robert J. Sawyer’s excellent, thought-provoking novel. Broadcast TV repeatedly demonstrates that it can’t handle thoughtful hard sci-fi and now it’s botching even the spy-fi. CW needs original ideas, not rehashes. Get a clue, twits!!
#4 by Robert Philp - August 29th, 2010 at 11:13
Were there ANY shows on the major networks deserving of an Emmy? What has happened to TV programming and consistency of show programs at their give slot each week? Cable shows have so many commercials that it is not worth watching. Compared to 10 years ago (pick any year) TV is not worth watching. The lack of creativity is stunning! PBS seems to have the only occasional programs of quality. The movie packages on satellite now include NFL, Bryant Gumbel, boxing—-MOVIES?