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The CW Fall 2015 Shows
Presenting on Thursday, The CW wins the award for keeping most of their 2014 lineup going into this year’s upfronts. The only series cancelled were Hart of Dixie and The Messengers. Drama renewals included The 100, Arrow, Beauty & the Beast, The Flash, iZombie, Jane the Virgin, The Originals, Reign, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries.
Check out the full schedule here.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on The CW
Rebecca Bloom (Rachel Bloom, Robot Chicken) is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything – her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan – in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: West Covina, Calif. (it’s only two hours from the beach! Four in traffic).
Bloom also serves as executive producer along with Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada); and Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider-Man).
The series will air Mondays at 8pm, staring Oct. 19.
Legends of Tomorrow on The CW
When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat – one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
Cast includes Victor Garber (The Flash, Alias); Brandon Routh (Arrow, Superman Returns); Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who); Caity Lotz (Arrow); Ciarra Renee; Franz Drameh (Attack the Block); with Dominic Purcell (The Flash, Prison Break); and Wentworth Miller (The Flash, Prison Break). Executive producers are Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and Sarah Schechter.
The series will air in 2016.
Containment (previously Cordon) on The CW
When a mysterious and deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta, a vast urban quarantine is quickly enforced, forcing those stuck on the inside to fight for their lives while local and federal officials desperately search for a cure. Torn apart from their loved ones, the survivors trapped within the cordon are fighting against not only fatal infection, but also isolation, fear, and the disintegration of society around them. But as they begin to gain each other’s trust, hope remains, and on either side of the cordon unlikely heroes will rise.
Cast includes David Gyasi (Interstellar); Christina Moses; Chris Wood (The Vampire Diaries); Kristen Gutoskie; Claudia Black (The Originals, Farscape); George Young; Hanna Mangan Lawrence; and Trevor St. John. Based on the original Belgian series created by Carl Joos for Eyeworks, Cordon is produced by Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals) and David Nutter (The Flash, Arrow).
The series will air in 2016.
It’s hard to pick a standout when all of the promo posters make every show look identical. Wesley Snipes’ show looks like it could be the most fun.
Hmm. I mean promo art is promo art, but I think they did a good job distinguishing them. The Player and Game of Silence though are definitely tied for worst promo art. I think FOX and ABC did a better job.
ABC definitely seems to be gearing up to dominate. They’re in a better position than NBC, at least.
Promo art has just become generic over the past few years.