The CW says hello and goodbye in lineup of shows for next season

By Karu F. Daniels
AOL Black Voices
(May 17, 2007) Earlier today, The CW Network announced its fall line-up grid at their Upfront presentation at Madison Square Garden. As expected there were some surprises, and a few regrets.

For its second full season of programming, the network (a partnership between CBS Corp. and Time Warner) is moving full steam ahead with a wide array of programming targeted to its core demographic of hip, young Americans.

Ratings juggernaut 'America's Next Top Model' will be back in the fall for a ninth run, while the teeny-bopper cult favorite 'Veronica Mars' was canceled -- even after being aired on the major sister network CBS to help build audience.

As some hinted, the top-rated African American sitcom 'Girlfriends' will return for an unprecedented eighth season this fall. Storyline-wise, anything could be up for grabs with one lead actress's departure last year, and another's apparent frustration with the show's current state.

The Chris Rock-created hit 'Everybody Hates Chris' -- which helped launch the new network with a splashy (and very expensive) marketing blitz -- will return for a second season, along with promising 'Girlfriends' spin-off 'The Game.'

Unfortunately, the Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith-helmed modern-family sitcom 'All of Us' is another casualty of the programming restructuring.

The series, starring Duane Martin, LisaRaye, Tony Rock and Khamani Griffin, survived the transition from UPN to The CW, but was unable to live past its current third season.

'Smallville' and 'Supernatural' will live on, along with 'One Tree Hill,' Beauty & the Geek' and the 'Smackdown' franchise.

Four new scripted series have been given the go-ahead with the biggest push going to the auspicious 'Gossip Girls' -- about Manhattan prep school teenagers. From the producers of 'The O.C.,' the series will join the Tyra Banks-fronted 'Top Model' on Wednesdays for a block of programming dubbed "Girls Night In," geared at females 18-34.

The new show sounds a bit like 'South Beach.' Remember that?

Also, look out for 'The Reaper' (about a bounty hunter for the devil), 'Life is Wild,' (South African family drama) and 'Aliens in America' (about a Muslim foreign exchange student.)

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