Here is a ongoing list of what is in development at the CW for next year:
Comedy How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days - Small screen version of movie by same title Nanny Dallas - comedy on group of nannies in Dallas Sherri Shepherd Project - comedy about a wife accepting the child of her husband's infidelity into her house
Drama The Collection - fashion world dramedy Undercover - an updated 21 Jump Street Maria Sharapova Project - women's tennis drama How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls - A Yale-educated young woman is hired to be a live in tutor/life coach to two rich heiresses in Palm Beach 90210 spinoff - 90210 redux to get possible update from Rob Thomas. Wrecking Ball - Per Variety. "Revolves around a young politico from a well-known family dynasty. When his electoral ambitions are derailed by a scandal, a campaign aide -- with whom he has a feisty relationship -- convinces him to use his connections to help a cancer patient fighting the medical establishment. He and the aide are then inspired to open a law firm devoted to helping out seemingly lost causes." This once strong contender has lost a lot of steam and is now on the far back burner. Austin Golden Hour - Texas medical drama following ER surgeons and EMTs. Set in real time (like 24), it follows the hour following a trauma as well as the characters personal lives. Justin Hartley has been attached.
Reality Fashion Mag Asst Project - Aspiring assistants compete to become assistant editors at a fashion mag 13 - Horror based competition reality series. Set to air this summer. Styledome - Iron Chef meets Extreme Makeover
Dead Eight Days a Week - Workplace comedy, most likely a dead project at this point
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A lot of people are talking about Eight Days a Week, it has a lot of buzz. So I think that show has the most potential. The next show I think would be The Collection.
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Originally posted by Texas Bound: Here is a ongoing list of what is in development at the CW for next year:
Comedy Eight Days a Week - Workplace comedy How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days - Small screen version of movie by same title Nanny Dallas - comedy on group of nannies in Dallas Sherri Shepherd Project - comedy about a wife accepting the child of her husband's infidelity into her house
Drama The Collection - fashion world dramedy Undercover - an updated 21 Jump Street Maria Sharapova Project - women's tennis drama
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All flops. Not a shot in hell for any of them imo. This network is dying.
Originally posted by MoMo19947: i thought that tyra banks was also developing a fashion competition for The CW?
It is more of a fashion magazine competition. Insted of creating the next Top Model, the next fashion designer, or the next fashion photographer, it will create the next fashion magazine design editor. It isn't being ordered up as a full time series, though. I think the initial idea if for about 8 episodes as a filler between seasons of one of the other reality shows, much like Pussycat Dolls is used.
Originally posted by wenart25: Reports are going around that Ostroff has been replaced by Nancy Tellem. Can anyone confirm this?
Peace!!
I hope it's true. Maybe she can save the network by developing some good shows.
I mean seriously How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days: the series? Isn't that 5 years too late? Maybe if this were 2003, I could MAYBE see a Legally Blonde: The TV series filling in the blanks for the 4 years at Harvard, but how do they think that they can stretch How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days into a weekly series?
Sherri Shepherd's sitcom is the only one I see with hit potential because it could be like Reba.
Eight Days a Week, I'd pick up because of the stars and The Collection for compatibility after Top Model.
Sunday 5:00 Supernatural: Beginnings 6:00 One Tree Hill: Beginings 7:00 Top Model (Encore) 8:00 EHC 8:30 Sherri Shepherd Sitcom 9:00 The Game 9:30 8 Days a Week
Originally posted by Ginger: Sunday 5:00 Supernatural: Beginnings 6:00 One Tree Hill: Beginings 7:00 Top Model (Encore) 8:00 EHC 8:30 Sherri Shepherd Sitcom 9:00 The Game 9:30 8 Days a Week
I would leave Tuesday and Sunday as is but use Supernatural as the lead off show on Tuesdays. This isn't a terrible lineup and a likely scenario for them next year with Sunday and perhaps Fridays having an hour of repeats in them. Man oh man how this would be a much better lineup with Smackdown on it. What morons. Let's hope Dopestroff who could never launch a drama to save her soul is gone.
Thanks for the info, I hope it is a SV spinoff deal. They need to jump.
I agree about Supernatural Tuesdays. It scored high key demos in its last outing, without smallville. The CW noticed. Undercover could go behind it.
I think the Maria Sharapova's Tennis drama' could work with one tree hill because of sports background. It could primere on a midseason break for gossip girl. The pussycat dolls are done.
Due to the cancellation of “Smackdown!”, most of the CW’s line-up is likely to return. The network wouldn’t want to be overburdened by a lot of new series that could fail and further jeopardize the net.
On its face, “Undercover” seems like a good idea, but one would think it would appeal more to male viewers than female viewers. That would seem to make it fall out of favor since the decision to drop “Smackdown!” was due to its heavy young male audience.
I could be wrong, but I thought I remembered reading that “Smallville” producers were largely unfavorable to a spin-off from the Tom Welling-starring series. If I’m correct (and that’s a big “if”), I believe that Justin Hartley’s character, Green Arrow, was specifically mentioned in the article.
The untitled fashion magazine assistant reality project could either be paired up with “America’s Next Top Model” or used as a bridge between seasonal cycles. “The Collection” also sounds as though it may be compatible with the CW’s reality crown jewel.
The CW will need to think about how it wants to use Fridays. Will they use this upcoming fall season as a “stop-gap” (i.e. reality and reruns) or actually program scripted first-run fare (i.e. the formerly Monday / Sunday comedies). Personally, I would go for scripted first run programming because the netlet would need to create a presence on the night. Using a combination of reality and reruns will tell viewers that it has essentially given up on the night, making it harder to launch new programming down the road.
Lastly, Nancy Tellem had a good run on CBS following Les Moonves as entertainment president. Moonves engineered CBS’s turnaround from third place network to America’s Most Watched Network; while Tellem kept the ball rolling. Dawn Ostroff’s track record at UPN and now at the CW should be enough to get her pushed out the door. If CW corporate parents CBS and Time Warner are looking to do just that, then Nancy Tellem would be an excellent choice and could actually do something Ostroff failed to do at UPN/CW: gain viewers.
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