CW orders five dramas: Carrie Diaries, Arrow, Cult, First Cut, and Beauty and the Beast.
Arrow
Based on the DC Comics comic book, this hour long drama is a modern retelling of the legendary DC Comics character Green Arrow
Beauty and the Beast
Loosely based on the CBS’s Beauty and the Beast series from the 1980s, this is a modern day romantic love story with a procedural twist.
Cult
After a rash of disappearances and a likely murder, an inquisitive, young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called “Cult” joins a journalist blogger in investigating the rabid fans of the series who might be re-creating crimes seen on the program, in real life.
First Cut
Glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, a newly minted doctor discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.
The Carrie Diaries
Based on the novel by Candace Bushnell, a young Carrie Bradshaw comes of age in the 1980s, asking her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan.


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ReplyDeleteMonday: The Carrie Diaries, Hart of Dixie
Tuesday: 90210, Cult
Wednesday: First Cut, Whatever.
Thursday: TVD, Arrow
Friday: Supernatural, Nikita
Midseason: Gossip Girl, Beauty and the Beast
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Awesome for Arrow and Cult!!
ReplyDeleteCult is the only one I'm intrigued by I hope it just goes meta crazy
ReplyDeleteI think:
ReplyDeleteMonday: First Cut + HoD
Tuesday: 90210 + GG/Carrie Diaries
Wednesday: ANTM + Beauty and the Beast
Thursday: TVD + Cult
Friday: Supernatural + Nikita/Arrow
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Mon - Hart Of Dixie/First Cut
ReplyDeleteTue - 90210/Carrie Diaries
Wed - ANTM/GG/Cult
Thu - TVD/Arrow
Fri - SPN/Nikita
sad about no selection but i guess more room for Nikita
ReplyDeleteArrow and Cult sound good.
ReplyDeleteArrow could be interesting if done right... Superhero shows are extremely hit or miss with me. Smallville was fun in its own way despite its faults and if Arrow can achieve that kind of quality I think it will be a good watch.
ReplyDeleteCW's Beauty and the Beast sounds better than ABC's version for whatever that's worth.
Cult sounds interesting to me. High concept generally doesn't do well on network TV and the CW is not known for executing high concept shows very well in my opinion. That said, I will be checking it out and have relatively high hopes.
Yay for Nikita renewal!
ReplyDeleteI'm a little surprised they did not try to capitalize on Hunger Games phenomena too! I guess the concept was better than the execution maybe?
ReplyDeleteToo bad The Selection isn't picked up! But I think I'm really gonna like Cult! ;D
ReplyDeleteWhat about Shelter? No word on it? I hope it's not dead. I need a OTH replacement :)
ReplyDeleteMy bet
ReplyDeleteMonday-first Cut,Hart of Dixe
Tuesday-90210,The Carrie Diaries
wedsday-America's next top model,Cult
Thursday-The Vampire Diaires,Arrow
friday-Nikita,Supernatural
Midseason-Gossip Girl,Beauty and the beast
Yeah, that one makes the most sense.
ReplyDeleteCould be a decent improvement on Tuesday's and Thursday's if TCD and Arrow can get some traction.
That monday is ugly though.
sadly Shelter the selection and dakota seem to be dead
ReplyDeleteDespite it being advertised as such The Selection is nothing like The Hunger Games. I read the book and I think it is miles away from the quality of The Hunger Games and IMHO The Selection is not dystopian.
ReplyDeleteArrow and Cult i will probably watch B&tB will lose me on procedural, First Cut had a fun script but no medical series has kept me more than a few episodes, carrie doesnt really interest me
ReplyDeleteso most likely just Arrow and Cult for me
a bummer, no selection..
ReplyDeleteCult is the only one I really care about. A bit sorry for The Selection, looked interesting enough.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably right...
ReplyDeleteI have not read the book so I can't comment on it really.
I can say that every synopsis I read by people who had read the pilot script or reported on the pilot commented about the similarities to The Hunger Games. So I'm not sure it was just how the network shopped it.....
Either way both of the books are just updated spins on "The Lottery" from the 1940's.
i think they might pair tvd with arrow on thursdays and i think cult wll be midseason which im thinking will be on fridays
ReplyDeleteI have high hopes for Cult. Alona Tal, Matt Davis, and Robert Knepper are in this one, right?
ReplyDeleteWell now that they have renewed Nikita I will be wacthing Arrow .Hopefully this Is as good as Smallville.This Is probally why they picked It up to appeal to Smallville audence.Kristin Kreuk
ReplyDeletewill make me check out beauty and the beast but they will need to have something to keep me from losing Intrest.The wo fat ongoing subplot Is what keeps me Intrested In hawaii Five-0.I lost all Intrest In hart of Dixie.Granted It Is still more Intresting than Gossip Girl(except for when Michelle Trachtenberg makes her appearances) or 90210.the original 1980's Beauty and the beast I actully liked.As a male I was an exception since It's fanbase was mostly women.The other CW shows don't show much Intrest to me.
Could be, although Cult is more of the same genre as TVD and I see Arrow as more as a more fighting action packed - Nikita style in way. I guess we'll know soon... As long as HoD gets another chance!
ReplyDeleteThinking about watching Beauty and the Beast and Cult (ALONA!)...
ReplyDeleteI think Cult getting picked up means not to except much of ghost Alaric on the Vampire Diaries.
ReplyDeleteArrow is their best (only?) real shot at a high rating in pilot season. Nothing on this network really compares to TVD in the ratings department, so I think that's the pair that's obvious, 100% going to happen.
ReplyDeleteMonday: Hart of Dixie/First Cut
ReplyDeleteTuesday: 90210/Carrie Diaries
Wednesday: ANTM/Beauty and the Beast
Thursday: Vampire Diaries/Arrow
Friday: Nikita/Supernatural
Midseason: Gossip Girl and Cult (both 13 episodes)
I'll take anything that has the wonderful Katie Cassidy back on the C-dub!
ReplyDeleteapart from it says on the full article:
ReplyDeleteCast list: Matthew Davis (Equal footing with the vampire diaries)
whether that means because he's been filming it while TVD still aired or because he'll be doing both I dont know!
Happy about Cult if only for the potential of being able to see Titus Welliver here.
ReplyDeleteSupernatural carries its own for a Friday night. It was a lot higher on Thursdays. We can thank Dawn for this.
ReplyDeleteScratch that. I keep thinking Welliver is in Cult, but he's actually in Midnight Sun.
ReplyDeleteI'll be checking out Arrow, Cult, & First Cut. Out of sheer morbid curiosity, I have to see at least one episode of Beauty & the Beast if only to see how ridiculous it is.
ReplyDeleteYeah. This makes sense to me also. Well done.
ReplyDeleteSo since I haven't followed the news very closely the last thing that I heard was that Cult was only going to be 13 episodes. Is that still true?
ReplyDeletei will proberly only watch arrow - shame its not justin hartley though
ReplyDeleteCult is the only one that interests me.
ReplyDeleteIll probably only watch Arrow.. depending on my mood I may give First Cut a go... sounds kinda scrubs-y
ReplyDeleteSounds sensible... though I think there might be a possibility of having the Monday lineup switched (First Cut first then HoD).
ReplyDelete- Cult and Arrow were very high on my list (from all the pilots for next season), so I'm happy for those two.
ReplyDelete- I was kinda game for The Selection so that's a bit of a shame IMO....
- B&tB was on my radar but nothing I was terribly dying to see.
- First Cut I didn't care too much about in the begining.... then the casting started and suddenly it became way more appealing
- I'm 100% "Meh" for the Carie Daries.
i'll try them all but the carrie diaries. was never interested in sex and the city so i'm not interested in this. and if justin hartley is going to be in first cut, that's enough for me to give it a shot, i'm just sad he's not in arrow.
ReplyDeleteBeauty and the Beast, bleh. Also not a fan of Kreuk. :/
ReplyDeleteGlad about Cult, not interested in ant of the others though.
ReplyDeletei'll have to see promo's first before i make up my mind but right now not really looking forward to any of these
ReplyDeleteOh boy, I really The CW is going to crash and burn this fall, I besides SPN and TVD (and I am not really sure about it now that Elena is a vampire, I'm seriously afraid she is going to fall in love with Tyler/Klaus and it will be a bad Twilight knock of or something, c'mon you saw last week's final scene).I am going to give Arrow 3 episodes to wow me and then I am done. None of these new shows sound appealing to me. Looks my nights in the fall will be all freed up. I feel like era of appointment TV is dying a fast but painful death.
ReplyDeleteSo we know they didn't pick up The Selection or that there were no words about the show being picked up at some point, but what happen to Shelter ? Wasn't it supposed to be a pilot for the CW ? Just curious.
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