On Thursday, The CW announced that they're renewing 10 of their current shows that include The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Riverdale, Black Lightning, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Supernatural and Dynasty. Also, the freshmen shows of Charmed and Legacies are picked up for a second season.
"This season, we expanded our primetime schedule to six nights with the addition of Sunday-which has been an unqualified success for the network, our affiliates, and our advertisers," said CW president Mark Pedowtiz in a statement. "In addition to growing our schedule across the week, we also continue to add more year-round programming...(We) look forward to building on this with even more returning and new shows as we approach the May upfronts."
The CW becomes the second broadcast network (after NBC) to reveal their premiere plan for the 2018-2019 TV season, which features it's first-ever Sunday night lineup.
Following a two-night broadcast of the 018 iHeartRadio Music Festival on Sunday, Oct. 7 and Monday, Oct. 8 at 8/7c, the new season will officially kick off on Tuesday, Oct. 9th with The Flash' Season 5 premiere at 8/7c and the sophomore outing of Black Lightning at 9/8c.
One week later, the real Sunday Funday begins with the Season 4 premiere of Supergirl at 8/7c followed by the series premiere of the network's long-gestating Charmed reboot at 9/8c.
Here's the full rundown of the CW premiere dates.
Tuesday, Oct. 9
8/7c The Flash
9/8c Black Lightning
Wednesday, Oct. 10
8/7c Riverdale (season premiere)
9/8c All American (series premiere)
Thursday, Oct. 11
8/7c Supernatural (Season Premiere)
9/8c All American (premiere encore)
Friday, Oct. 12
8/7c Dynasty (Season premiere)
9/8c Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (final season premiere)
Sunday, Oct. 14
8/7c Supergirl (season premiere)
9/8c Charmed (series premiere
Monday, Oct. 15
9/8c Arrow (season premiere)
Thursday, Oct. 18
8/7c Supernatural (new episode)
9/8c Chamred (premiere encore)
Monday, Oct. 22
8/7c Arrow (new episode)
9/8c DC's Legends of Tomorrow (season premiere)
Thursday, Oct. 25
8/7c Supernatural (new episode)
9/8c Legacies (series premiere)
Midseason: Jane the Virgin, The 100, iZombie and Rosewell, New Mexico.
As the Upfronts 2018 are coming down to a close, The CW is the final broadcast TV Network (after NBC, Fox, ABC and CBS) to announced its schedule for the fall TV season. Here's what to expect in the new season.
There are big moves coming to The CW. Word about airing original program on Sunday is coming and the first show to launch will be Supergirl kicking the 8/7c leading into the network's new and rebooted Charmed at 9/8c.
Arrow is on the move to Mondays at 9/8c following the lead of DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
And the final seasons of Jane the Virgin and iZombie will be held until midseason. While Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which is heading into its final season, will kick off it's goodbye this fall on Fridays again.
Plus The Originals spin-off Legacies has snagged the post-Supernatural Thursday night.
Here's The CW Fall Schedule:
MONDAY
8/7c DC's Legends of Tomorrow
9/8c Arrow
TUESDAY
8/7c The Flash
9/8c Black Lightning
WEDNESDAY
8/7c Riverdale
9/8c All American (New Series)
THURSDAY
8/7c Supernatural
9/8c Legacies (New Series)
FRIDAY
8/7c Dynasty
9/8c Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
SUNDAY
8/7c Supergirl
9/8c Charmed (New Series)
Show for Midseason:
Jane the Virgin, The 100, iZombie, In the Dark and Rosewell, New Mexico
Cancelled:
Life Sentence, The Originals (in its final season) and Valor.
Part one of the four-part epic crossover event, kicking off last night with Supergirl, delivered such an entertaining episode and set a great tone for the next episode.
In the parallel world, Earth-X, where the Nazi regime has ruled the planet, a dark hooded archer called Dark Arrow kills the American loyalists and others that are part of the resistance. Dark Arrow takes on The Guardian and, after a couple of seconds of battling, kills him. He joins his team as they are about to take a machine that will make sure they spread their hatred. Dark Arrow orders his team but changes when his partner Overgirl gives her orders.
Meanwhile, there's a wedding coming with Iris and Barry. They wonder if the others (Supergirl, Arrow, and the Legends) have RSVP their invitations, for which we get to see some kick-ass fighting scenes with our favorite DC TV heroes, but Kara and Alex get a moment during their bond time and decide to go.
With the girls having their time, Barry and Oliver have their Groom/Best Man talk about settling down, which is excellent and funny, with Barry making a joke that Oliver doesn't laugh at all. During the dinner, with everyone there, Iris' father gives a heartfelt speech about how they helped him find his way back to love again. The dinner had other great moments, one being Alex and Sara drinking up and having a one-night stand. The other Oliver is talking to Felicity about settling down, but she doesn't want to and walks away.
As the wedding begins, Kara sings, and just as the wedding starts, the minister is killed by Overgirl. After a fascinating and entertaining fight scene, Kara injures Overgirl during the fight, and the Nazis retreat, but our heroes capture Dark Arrow's partner Prometheus.
Dark Arrow and Overgirl discuss the plan and meet with the yellow speedster, who discuss their next step. Dark Arrow and Overgirl unmasked themselves and are revealed to be the parallel universe doppelgangers of Oliver Queen and Kara. The yellow speedster is Barry's presumed deceased nemesis, Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash.
"Crisis on Earth-X Part 1" was nothing but stunning. The first part of the crossover event delivered such a kick-ass start with such thrilling to humoring moments, mostly coming from Heat Wave and even the moments with Sara and Alex, for which I'm down with that relationship if anyone has any objections. The drama between Oliver and Felicity was excellent, and I assume it'll carry good for the next episode. I think this might be one of the best crossover events than the one last season. The writing was excellent, and the performances go to an equal amount of everyone's effort. Overall, I give this episode 9/10.
You can catch the epic crossover event with Arrow last night and tonight's episode of The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow beginning at 8/7c on The CW. You can see the fall finale of Supergirl following Monday at 8/7c on The CW.
A new promo for the TE CW superhero four pack shows: Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow and DC's Legends of Tomorrow is making the rounds online with a nice settling trailer that doesn't show a whole lot of jaw-dropping moments but just enough to get us over the next month til it's premiere week, October 9th.
There's one moment that shows Cat Grant, played by Calista Flockhart, appearing as the White House Press Secretary. For Grant to be in this position, it might not that be that surprising since she is best friends with the Preisdent of the United States of America (played by no other than Lynda Carter). IF that is the case, she'll be a lot better Press Secretary than the others we've seen in the last eight months.
Here's the trailer:
The new season of Supegirl, The Flash, Arrow and DC's Legends of Tomorrow begins the week of October 9th on The CW.
