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There are reports that the canceled CBS vampire drama "Moonlight" could get picked up by Media Rights Capital, the media conglom that has bought Sunday nights from CW to air its own programming slate. Could cult fave Mick St. John (played by Alex O’Loughlin, right) bring CW its biggest audience to date - with a show canceled by another network, on a night that’s been outsourced? That would be embarrassing.
But otherwise, CW’s programming presentation yesterday left us with only the titles of four new shows that might air on Media Rights Capital Sundays: “Surviving Suburbia,” “Book of Murphy,” “I.M. Valentine, Investigations” and “Fat City.”
The "Moonlight" dramatics come before CBS even announces its fall schedule today. Word is CBS will renew all of its popular Monday comedies and perhaps use a couple of them to build a second night of comedy. We’ll have all the details as soon as they’re official, […]

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"Gossip Girl" and "One Tree Hill" on Mondays.
The new "90210" with "guest star" Jennie Garth followed by "Surviving The Filthy Rich" on Tuesdays.
"America’s Next Top Model" and "Stylista" on Wednesday.
"Smallville" and "Supernatural" again on Thursdays.
And Fridays it’s "Everybody Hates Chris," "The Game" and an "ANTM" replay.
No word yet on what Media Rights Capital will produce for the three hours it’s bought on Sunday night.

"Reaper" returns at midseason. Yayyyy!
Deets on the new shows after the jump…
(Right, "Gossip Girl’s" Blake Lively and Leighton Meester at The CW Upfront presentation that was held at Lincoln Center today.)
“90210” (New Series)An edgy, contemporary spin-off of the iconic drama “Beverly Hills, 90210,” the new 90210 looks at life through the eyes of Annie Mills (Shenae Grimes, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”) and her brother Dixon (Tristan Wilds, “The Wire”), whose first day at West Beverly Hills High School leaves no doubt they’re not in […]

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I hate to bust on the folks at CW while I’m begging them to renew "Reaper." But. Here’s some crappy news. After failing on Sunday nights this year with advertiser-friendly "CW Now," the network is going the rest of the way and selling the timeslots to a media-and-advertising conglomerate. According to multiple reports (here, here, here and here, for instance), the network is pimping our eyeballs to the Media Rights Capital studio, whose backers include ad-business biggies. Media Rights will produce some shows to put between the ads, but it’s going to be hard to take seriously whatever they put on. There’s your paradigm shift of the week.
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CW’s "Reaper" was one of my favorites among the new shows last fall, and now we’re fighting to save it. How much does that suck?
Already it appears that "Aliens In America," another smart CW show, has been canceled, since cast members are taking other jobs, including a gig for Adhir Kalyan, who played Raja, on "Nip/Tuck."
Now "Reaper" has been listed as "on the bubble," and star Bret Harrison’s web site is half-seriously suggesting that we follow the lead of "Jericho" fans and their peanuts and bury CW executives under an avalanche of tube socks. Because, you see, Harrison’s everyman hero Sam Oliver finds much-needed comic relief with Tyler Labine’s feral, Belushian sidekick Bert ‘Sock’ Wysocki.
I can’t say the example of "Jericho" is ultimately all that inspiring - they got the show back on the air, for seven episodes, and even fewer people watched it this season. So buh-bye. In a […]

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More news from the busy bees at
CW. After all the other recent fun, the network has announced a new spring schedule that puts fresh episodes of "Gossip Girl" (right) and "One Tree Hill" back to back on Mondays, beginning April 21, and shifts some other shows, but not the Thursday duo of "Smallville" and "Supernatural." The whole press release follows, including all the premiere dates…
THE CW NETWORK LOCKS IN MIDSEASON SCHEDULE
WITH NEW EPISODES AND NEW TIME PERIODS

New Episodes of Freshman Hit GOSSIP GIRL Return on Monday, April 21, Paired with Originals of ONE TREE HILL, Creating New Night of Drama for The CW

March 4, 2008 (Burbank, CA) ─ The CW Network has set its new midseason
schedule, featuring brand new episodes of its scripted series and
several strategic moves to bolster new nights and new time periods.

New episodes of freshman sensation GOSSIP GIRL return to The CW
schedule beginning Monday, April 21 (8:00-9:00p.m. […]

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We told you yesterday about CW’s early pickups for shows like "America’s Next Top Model" and "Everybody Loves Chris." What they of course didn’t mention was that at the same time they were sending out that press release, they were whacking 25-30 employees behind the scenes, including their entire comedy department. More reality shows are definitely coming down the pike for the fall, sez the Hollywood Reporter, especially since the non-renewal of pro wrestling will mean the network now has to find a low-cost Friday night programming lineup. What all this means for shows that didn’t get "early" renewals - notably our favorites "Reaper" (pictured) and "Aliens in America" - is not yet clear.
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CW became the final network to announce its post-strike plans for original episodes of show like "Gossip Girl." But it’s late on Friday afternoon and I’m all written out. So here’s the dealio…I’m just gonna use the snip tool in Windows Vista and show you the chart they sent me. Finally, something good about Vista.

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Fall is coming. That means the leaves are gonna start changing colors, temperatures drop, and children everywhere begin to complain how much they hate their teachers. Fall is a time for change and the world of television is no exception. Some of your crappy guilty pleasure shows didn’t make the cut for the fall line-up and are replaced with potentially new crappy guilty pleasures. Hopefully, for the networks’ sake, the five shows we have previewed this week will be successful on their debut this fall.
Video Top 5 features five fresh shows coming to your sets this autumn. We have preview clips for Bionic Woman, Cane, Gossip Girl, and Carpoolers. As well as, the full pilot episode for K-Ville. 
Also, in the wake of Miss South Carolina’s "blonde moment", our YouTube Clip of the Week plays off the classic dumb blonde jokes.

Bionic Woman
After a disastrous car wreck, this […]

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After two So-Cal hottie roles in "The O.C." and "Hidden Palms," Michael Cassidy will be moving to a more grownup role as the new editor for the Daily Planet on "Smallville."  TV Guide’s Ausiello Report says that he’ll appear in at least six episodes and will be a love interest for Lois Lane, which also means that he’s going to face off against Clark Kent, if not Superman.
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Beginning next week, TV critics and networks gather in Los Angeles for the summer press tour, when the fall shows are unveiled, stars are interviewed and many shrimp are eaten. This week I’m preparing by watching DVDs of the fall pilots. We’re not supposed to review them, as shows will change, actors will come and go. But that doesn’t mean I can’t give you a taste, eh? Following are quick first impressions of the CW’s new fall series. I’ll post more of these sneak peeks when I have time.
"Aliens in America" deserves all the buzz it’s getting. As the Pakistani exchange student Raja and his American host nerd Justin, Adhir Kalyan and Dan Byrd are funny and awkward and endearing. It’s "Aliens" plural because Justin isn’t any more comfortable in his life than Raja. The culture clashes wrought by Raja’s arrival - at home and at high school - […]

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