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The CW Fall Schedule has been announced

I know that this won't be popular with a lot of my flist, but meh I really feel like the CW have gotten O/T with superhero shows now, Friday is starting to look a bit out of place with the rest of the weeks line-up! :P I'm disappointed that there doesn't seem to be much space for anything else on their schedules at the moment, iZombie, The 100, Reign, and Riverdale are all being held back for mid-season. I assumed that iZombie had been picked up for 18 episodes again like last year, but apparently not?

And it's looking like The Good Wife spin-off is confirmed now CBS plans 'Good Wife' spinoff led by Christine Baranski

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If iZombie comes back in January,it could get at least 16 episodes like Legends of Tomorrow or The 100!

So iZombie is only going to be like 12 eps?

I've no idea, but the first season 1 was mid-season and only had 13 episodes, so I'm guessing that it will be the same as that for season 3?

I hope so, when they first announced that it had been picked up there was no suggestion that it would be mid-season only, so I'm kind of bummed about this :( People are saying in the comments that the writing will be tighter with only 13 episodes and that this is a good thing, but I actually found season 2 even stronger than season 1, so I don't know that it's a show that will necessarily benefit from a shortened season when the main arc tends to be quite involved. I remember hearing that they assumed that they were getting 22 episodes for season 2 originally, and so they had to cram everything in to the final episodes a bit/cut out some character scenes which dealt with Liz's family, so it sounds to me like 13 episodes isn't going to be enough to fit everything in

16/17 episodes would be okay, but I'll be disappointed if it's only 13

Yeah,season 2 was definitely stronger. 16 is actually a really good number so I'm hoping for that!

The CW can't keep this up much longer tho. At some point they *have* to cancel some shows and/or have 3/day like the other networks ^^

Well, nothing for me on that schedule, since I will drop The 100 after the finale and I'm tentatively interested in Riverdale (I need to see a trailer to know more) and it'll be midseason.

Are you interested in the spin-off? If they had done it two years ago, okay, but right now I can't imagine watching more of anything related to TGW.

Aw darn :(

I don't know why they don't just air shows on Saturday's at this point, or yes at 10pm, they obviously have a ton of shows that they want to fit in their schedule. They hardly ever seem to cancel any of their shows, yet there's always new ones like Supergirl and Riverdale that they need to add to the existing line-up as well

I'll only be watching The Vampire Diaries, and then iZombie whenever it airs. Honestly I do miss the days when the CW (and the WB) focused more on the young female audience, the DC line-up just isn't my thing

Are you interested in the spin-off?

Not really tbh! I'm mostly mildly interested in how they address the finale and where Alicia ended up, but otherwise I'm not not really desperate for more legal cases. I don't think I'll be able to watch it anyway, I had a look and apparently that streaming service blocks access to the UK

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Yep :(

Since Alicia won't be in it, I suppose they'll say she left with Jason. That sounds like the most reasonable option.

How do you watch the other shows? It'll probably be available through the usual channels.

Oh maybe, I just wasn't sure if anyone was going to upload it or not if it's just airing on a streaming service, I'm not really sure how that works compared to shows airing on the usual US networks! If I do manage to access it then I'll probably watch the first episode at least anyway, see what I think of it

I think it might not be available as fast as the rest, but it'll probably be. That's what happened when I wanted to watch Powers S1.

I really need to catch up on their superhero shows. I do agree it's kinda taken over their line-up, though I do think CW's a better fit for Supergirl.

Sucks that iZombie is being held back to mid-season. :(

I agree, it did make sense to move Supergirl to the CW, it just kind of sucks for me personally that half of the CW's line-up for Monday-Thursday only consists of superhero shows! Oh well, it's probably the right business decision when it comes to the ratings

And yeah I would have been more prepared if they had said that iZombie was coming back mid-season in the first place, but I was expecting it to have another 18 episodes, so that was a bit of a downer :( I'm wondering actually if plans could have been changed at the last minute for iZombie or for The Originals when they found themselves needing somewhere to fit in SuperGirl? Like I was saying above, they really don't give themselves enough spaces for new shows when they air no programming on the weekends, and only two shows a night during the week

I agree r.e. iZombie, tbh I don't know how the writing COULD get tighter than season 2? That was one of the best plotted seasons of anything I've ever watched, I think, it was a real pleasure to watch all the threads come together.

Yeah with some shows I'd be all for cutting out the amount of filler and having less episodes, but iZombie does a great job with gradually developing the arc in some way for every single episode and adding in more twists, so I really don't see how they'd gain anything by being cut back to 13

I don't mind about "the 100" and "Reign" as I'm not watching those shows anymore anyway, but I'm a little sad that iZOMBiE didn'T get a full season. I wish they´had made TVD "mid-season" and instead put iZOMBiE in there for a full season, but oh well...

I am wondering now if some of the CW's other shows won't be getting full season orders as they have to fit in the mid-season shows as well? Someone was speculating that maybe only Supernatural and the DC shows will get full season orders of 22/23 episodes. I would have expected the CW to announce it in advance if TVD, JTV, and CEG weren't getting full seasons, but then they never said anything before about iZombie episodes being cut back, so who knows

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I'm just so happy meanwhile to see Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on there. Yayyyyy.

Well i sure have been enjoying Legends Of Tomorrow.

Yeah I'm disappointed about the mid-season thing for iZombie and TO, although I expected no less for Reign. iZombie does pretty well for a CW show (0.5 demo) and TO does well too when you consider it's in the Friday death slot after TVD (0.3).

I hate the superhero takeover too. :/ It feels so formulaic and overtly cash grabby, I dunno.

Between all the DC and Marvel shows, it's definitely gotten to be too much. Especially if you add in shows like Person of Interest, that Powers adaption, and a few other odds and ends. It's amazing that we have good shows now rather than The Cape or other badly developed junk, but when most of genre tv is all the same flavor it's kinda sad.

It's a flavor I like, but it's too much.

Ugh, I was looking forward to Riverdale...and holding out hope that Jughead will be the Zdarsky version...

I would be more excited about the spin-off if was on actual CBS and not their App. or whatever.

Yeah, I kind of hate that iZombie and The Originals won't be back til mid-season.

I say they should have Arrow & Flash on the same night. Then Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow on the same night. Just seems more fitting to me. I don't understand this new line up on the CW.

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