The final network to present, as usual, is the netlet The CW. This small network has traditionally targeted an almost exclusively female audience between 18-35, and the five new shows this season seem to follow suit. My commentary on these will be brief, since none of them seem worth elaborating on. They are all a variation of schlocky teen soap, and it’s doubtful any will be worth watching.
The 100
This series follows hot young juvenile delinquents who try to re-inhabit Earth after it has been destroyed by a nuclear war.
The Tomorrow People
This is the all teen version of Heroes, with kids around the world discovering they have superpowers and using them to fight the bad guys. It’s a remake of the British show of the same name.
Reign
This is about as close to a departure for the CW as we get, as this is a period piece about attractive people (as opposed to fantasy, contemporary, or sci-fi). It will attempt to tell the story of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Star-Crossed
After aliens come to earth and try to integrate into our society, a high school girl falls in love with the new alien boy in her class. Why an alien society with the technology to travel across star systems would enroll their offspring in a school taught by a people who have yet to venture outside their planet’s orbit is beyond me.
The Originals
A spinoff from The Vampire Diaries, it’s backdoor pilot already aired this season, so if you’re at all in the target audience, you should pretty much know what to expect already.
And that’s it for the 2013 Upfronts! I can’t say that this looks like it’s going to be a particularly good year, but hopefully things will start to look a little rosier as we get closer to premiere week, additional episodes start filming, and the showrunners have a chance to tweak and improve their offering. I’ll definitely cover the premieres in the fall, and in the meantime, you have almost four months to catch up on all the great series you haven’t had time to watch yet. There might be an idea for a future post in there somewhere…
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