TV-hösten 2009: CWs TV-tablå!

CW är ungdomskanalen som många länge förutspått skulle komma att tvingas lägags ned eftersom de aldrig får igång tittarsiffrorna rejält - men som ändå lyckas hänga kvar på grund av långkörare som Americas Next Top Model, Supernatural, One Tree Hill och Smallville. Dessutom har man ju lyckats få till två av bloggvärldens mest omskrivna nya serier Gossip Girl och 90210.

En hel del serier läggs dock ned inför nästa säsong; Everybody Hates Chris, kritikerhyllade Privileged, mysäventyrsskräckisen Reaper och riktigt sköna realityn Stylista som tyvärr bara fick en säsong.

En hel del ombuzzade piloter hamnade dessutom i papperskorgen, kanske mest noterbart den omskrivna spin-offen till Gossip Girl, men även en make over reality som hette Operation Fabulous och de båda dramaserierna The Body Politics med Brian Austin Green och Light Years med Kerr Smith.

Så här ser i alla fall kanalens hösttablå ut:

Måndag
20:00 Gossip Girl
21:00 One Tree Hill

Tisdag
20:00 90210
21:00 Melrose Place

Onsdag
20:00 America's Next Top Model
21:00 The Beautiful Life

Torsdag
20:00 Vampire Diaries
21:00 Supernatural

Fredag
20:00 Smallville
21:00 America's Next Top Model (repriser)

Intressant att de lägger Smallville på en fredag. Någon mer än jag som gissar att Stålmannen & Co sjunger på sista refrängen?

Själv ska jag nog kolla in alla kanalens nya satsningar. Melrose Place 2.0 bara måste man ju se (speciellt om de lyckas göra det lika överdrivet såpigt och härligt galet som originalet var på slutet) och även om jag inte sett eller läst Twilight har jag alltid plats för en bra(?) vampyrungdomsserie som Vampire Diaries om Ian Somerhalder är med. Samma sak med The Beautiful Life - vem kan motstå ett drama om unga modeller i New York med Mischa Barton i rollistan, när det kör igång direkt efter Top Model? Inte jag i alla fall!

Här följer som vanligt några kopierade beskrivningar av de nya serierna från sidan Dark Horizons.



The Beautiful Life

The life of a high-fashion model appears glamorous and sexy, but as every new model quickly learns, behind the beautiful faade is a world of insecurity and cutthroat competition. Two teenage models who are about to discover this world for themselves are Raina Collins (Sara Paxton, Last House on the Left), a stunning beauty with a secret past, and Chris Andrews (Benjamin Hollingsworth, The Line), a strikingly handsome Iowa farm boy.
When Raina makes an unforgettable impression at a show introducing the new line from designer Zac Posen (appearing in a cameo role), she steals the spotlight from her friend Sonja (Mischa Barton, The O.C.). Sonja has been out of the country for mysterious reasons and is now desperate to reclaim her standing as the reigning supermodel.
While Raina and Sonja live at the top of the fashion food chain, Chris is starting at the bottom, having just been discovered by agent Simon Lockridge (newcomer Dusan Dukic) of the Covet Modeling Agency, which is owned by former supermodel Claudia Foster (Elle Macpherson, Friends). At his first photo shoot, Chris' inexperience almost derails his career until Raina comes to his rescue, showing him how to relax and work the camera.
That afternoon, Raina brings Chris to the models' residence where she lives along with other young hopefuls, including Marissa Delfina (Ashley Madekwe, Secret Diary of a Call Girl), Egan (Jordan Woolley, As The World Turns), Issac (Corbin Bleu, High School Musical 2) and the current alpha-male-model known as Kai (Nico Tortorella, Twelve).
At an exclusive industry party that night, Chris is again impressed by Raina's generosity when she steps aside to make sure Sonja lands a job that will resurrect her career. However, after an ugly scene with Simon, Chris is left to question whether he can survive in this world of dangerous excess and fleeting fame.





Melrose Place

In an elegant Spanish-style apartment building in the trendy Melrose neighborhood of Los Angeles, a diverse group of 20-somethings have formed a close-knit surrogate family. Sydney Andrews (Laura Leighton, the original Melrose Place) is the landlady, still beautiful at 40, and a central figure in the lives of all her tenants, especially handsome and rebellious David Breck (Shaun Sipos, Shark).
Sydney started an affair with David despite her turbulent history with his estranged father, Dr. Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro, the original Melrose Place). Both father and son learned through experience that Sydney was not above using blackmail to control people. Another tenant, high-powered publicist Ella Simms (Katie Cassidy, Supernatural), once considered Sydney her mentor, but their friendship was destroyed by betrayal, and Sydney threatened to evict Ella and ruin her career.
Sydney also played a pivotal role in the career of Auggie Kirkpatrick (Colin Egglesfield, All My Children). After they met at an AA meeting, she became Auggie's sponsor and encouraged his dream to become a chef. Now a successful sous chef at the trendy restaurant Coal, Auggie has been avoiding Sydney since she began drinking again.
The other tenants include Lauren Yung (Stephanie Jacobsen, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), a medical student in desperate need of money to pay her student loans, and Jonah Miller (Michael Rady, Swingtown), an aspiring filmmaker who has just proposed to his live-in girlfriend Riley Richmond (Jessica Lucas, Cloverfield), a first-grade teacher.
The newest tenant, 18-year-old Violet Foster (Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, 7th Heaven), has just arrived in LA with her own secret connection to Sydney. When a bloody body is found floating in the courtyard pool, David is the leading suspect. However, as the police are soon to discover, almost everyone living at Melrose Place had a reason to want the deceased out of the way. An updated version of the popular 1990s series, MELROSE PLACE is from CBS Television Studios with executive producers Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer (Smallville).





Vampire Diaries

Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev, DeGrassi: The Next Generation) and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen, Everwood) are still trying to cope with their grief and move on with their lives. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her sadness from the world.
As the school year begins, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley, Army Wives). Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, and Elena has no way of knowing that Stefan is a centuries-old vampire, struggling to live peacefully among humans, while his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder, Lost) is the embodiment of vampire violence and brutality.
Now these two vampire brothers - one good, one evil - are at war for Elena's soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith.