The CW gets all Dramatic with its 2012 Fall Schedule

First, here’s news some of you might not know… The CW is, indeed, still on the air. Despite anemic ratings for many of its shows, the network keeps chugging along and announced its new fall schedule today that is heavy on new dramas in the hopes of another breakout hit like The Vampire Diaries. To that end, they have added a superhero drama Arrow starring super hottie Stephen Amell (Private Practice), an update of Beauty and the Beast starring Smallville‘s Kristen Kreuk, a new soap medical series Emily Owens M.D. starring Mamie Gummar (The Good Wife) who is awesome (and yes, she’s also Meryl Streep‘s daughter), and a Sex and the City prequel series called The Carrie Diaries. That show will join the lineup at midseason along with a thriller called Cult starring Prison Break’s Robert Knepper.… The other big moves for the network include relocating Supernatural to Wednesdays, 90210 to Mondays, Hart of Dixie to Tuesdays and the gasping for air reality show America’s Next Top Model to Fridays…. Getting the boot are Ringer and The Secret Circle after just one season while One Tree Hill finally finished its long 9 season run earlier this year… For more on these shows and the CW, head to Deadline Hollywood here and check out their new schedule below.

THE CW’s 2012-2013 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE

MONDAY

8:00-9:00 PM 90210 (New Night)
9:00-10:00 PM GOSSIP GIRL (New Time)
THE CARRIE DIARIES premieres January, 2013

TUESDAY

8:00-9:00 PM HART OF DIXIE (New Night)
9:00-10:00 PM EMILY OWENS, M.D. (New Series)

WEDNESDAY

8:00-9:00 PM ARROW (New Series)
9:00-10:00 PM SUPERNATURAL (New Night)

THURSDAY

8:00-9:00 PM THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
9:00-10:00 PM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (New Series)

FRIDAY

8:00-9:00 PM AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL (New Night)
9:00-10:00 PM NIKITA (New Time)

General Hospital, Young & Restless and Days of Our Lives lead the Daytime Emmy nominations

This morning, the nominations for the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were announced and General Hospital led the way with a big 23 nominations. Next in line were The Young and the Restless with 16 and my personal favorite, Days of Our Lives with 15. Among Days nods were first time bids for long time soap vet Matthew Ashford (Jack) and Shelly Hening (Stephanie) who left the show early last year and now stars on CW’s The Secret Circle. Picking up her 8th nod was Crystal Chappell (Carly) who has since departed the show as well while Molly Burnett (Melanie) grabbed her second nod and breakout star Chandler Massey (Will) whose coming out storyline helped grab him a second consecutive nod. I also have to give a shout out to two of my friends who earned nods for their work on Days: Glen Alen for Makeup and Christopher Whitesell for Writing. Congrats Days folks! … Ok, enough gushing about Days, take a look at all the nominees in the big categories below and for the full list and info on the show, head here.

OUTSTANDING DRAMA
All My Children
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless

TALK SHOW
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Live With Regis & Kelly
The Talk
The View

TALK SHOW / INFORMATIVE
Anderson
The Dr. Oz Show
The Doctors

TALK SHOW HOST
Anderson Cooper, Anderson
Dr. Oz, The Dr. Oz Show
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, Live
Rachael Ray, The Rachael Ray Show
All of The Doctors

LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Maurice Benard, GH
Anthony Geary, GH
John McCook, B&B
Darnell Williams, AMC
Robert S. Woods, OLTL

LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Crystal Chappell, Days
Debbie Morgan, AMC
Erika Slezak, OLTL
Heather Tom, B&B
Laura Wright, GH

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bradford Anderson, GH
Matthew Ashford, Days
Sean Blakemore, GH
Jonathan Jackson, GH
Jason Thompson, GH

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melissa Claire Egan, AMC
Genie Francis, Y&R
Nancy Lee Grahn, GH
Elizabeth Hendrickson, Y&R
Rebecca Herbst, GH

YOUNGER ACTOR
Eddie Alderson, OLTL
Chad Duell, GH
Chandler Massey, Days
Nathan Parsons, GH

YOUNGER ACTRESS
Molly Burnett, Days
Shelley Hennig, Days
Christel Khalil, Y&R
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, B&B

Check out the CW’s new 2011 Fall Schedule

This morning the CW announced its new 2011 Fall Schedule welcoming Rachel Bilson and Sarah Michelle Gellar back to tv and saying buh bye to their Hellcats. The network announced the addition of three new dramas and one new reality show for fall plus new timeslots for 90210, Gossip Girl and Nikita which thankfully got a second season. Of note, the new drama Ringer starring Gellar was originally developed for big sister network CBS but it ultimately fit better with the CW’s lineup… Also, One Tree Hill will return at midseason for a final 13 episodes in its 8th season. Take a look at their lineup and new show descriptions below.

MONDAY
8 pm Gossip Girl [new time slot]
9 pm HART OF DIXIE: a dramedy starring Bilson (The O.C.) as a big city doctor who inherits a small town medical practice. Co-starring are Jamie King (Pearl Harbor) and Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights/TheGood Wife).

TUESDAY
8 pm 90210 [new time slot]
9 pm RINGER: a thriller about a woman (Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Gellar) who tries to elude the mob by assuming her twin sister’s identity. Also starring are Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four), Nestor Carbonell (Lost) and Kristoffer Polaha (Life Unexpected).

WEDNESDAY
8 pm  H8R: a new reality show about celebrities and the people who hate them…
9 pm America’s Next Top Model

THURSDAY
8 pm The Vampire Diaries
9 pm THE SECRET CIRCLE: a new supernatural drama from Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries) starring Brittany Robertson (Life Unexpected) as a young woman who discovers she’s a witch and part of a secret coven locked in a battle between good and evil. Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Gale Harold (Queer as Folk, Hellcats) co-star.

FRIDAY
8 pm Nikita [new time slot]
9 pm Supernatural

NOT RETURNING FOR THE 2011-12 TV SEASON: Hellcats and Shedding for the Wedding