The CW picks three newbies for fall

sucks that Reaper is gone - IMO the only good thing this network had going for it!!

My biggest complaint is that they didn't renew "Privileged" - THAT was the best show on the CW and I'm mad and sorry to see it go.
I may check out the new "Melrose Place" but depending on the schedule for returning favorites and potential new favorites (which of course will be doomed to cancellation just because I decide to like them), I don't see much of anything at all to watch regularly on the CW.

Ah yes, finally got rid of Reaper. It was just a rip off off a much better show Brimstone. Glad they kept a great original show around for another season, Supernatural. Great show.

I really hope The Body Politic is on their schedule for midseason. What are they thinking not picking up a well-reviewed pilot? I'm not gonna lie, I'll probably be watching 6 hours of the CW come fall. But they really needed something fresh to keep their network afloat.

I'm very upset a show as good as "Everybody Hates Chris" has been canceled. They took a show in a decent spot on Sundays and moved it to Friday nights when no one watches TV. Then they cancel it due to ratings. How many times have we seen this before? Predominantly black shows that start off successfully and somehow finds itself on a Friday night or in the same time slot as another popular black show so that they cancel each other out. "The Bernie Mac Show"? "Wanda At Large", "Cedric The Entertainer Presents", and so on and so on. What are the Nielsen Ratings based on anyway? They're trying to get me to believe that last week more African-Americans watched "Desperate Housewives" than predominantly black shows? Absolutely not one black person I work with watches "Desperate Housewives" and there are 38 of us in my office. Yet it's #9 on last week's Nielsen Rating list for blacks? Yeah, right! TV.com has "EHC" is ranked #34 in Comedies on television in this decade. #100 overall in all genres from this decade. An overall rating of 8.8 out of 10. Ranked #804 out of 18,151 shows (Top 95% percentile). Yet, no one is watching. But, I digress.

The point I'm trying to make is: since "The Cosby Show", has anything ever been really given a chance when it comes to black shows? I know black dramas never make it on broadcast networks, but I thought comedies were allowed to have a chance. "EHC" was the most creatively written show I've seen since "Seinfeld". The storylines made the show interesting just as the cast of characters. This was a show I thought I'd see go 10 seasons easily. Instead, I get "Melrose Place", "90210", and "Gossip Girls". The same show with three different names. Nothing original, just good-looking white women, bad acting, and similar storylines. Thanks a lot CW! But don't worry. I'm sure black people who were fans of "Girlfriends" and "The Game" (even though I personally thought both shows were garbage) will forgive you. Not!

I think it's time for The CW to pack it in and just go away. When it was The WB, it was exciting and the programming was so much better, even UPN was better than The CW. Merging the two really ruined the a once good thing!

Lily and Body Politic were the 2 I was most interested in. Hopefully they both still get picked up for mid-season. As for Light Years... it sounds watchable but not if they keep changing the title. And the newest title is stupid. Go back to Light Years. Or else call it Lily and trick the GG fans into watching it. :)

The irony is back when UPN cancelled Veronica Mars they did so because they were trying to aim more at the "urban male" demographic or something like that. It was the same rationale they used for cancelling Enterprise. Now, it's successor The CW is heading in the opposite direction. Veronica Mars would have thrived in this environment.

What the heck is a CW?

Wow, must be the economy when a network chooses to use Ashlee Simpson as their new face. Not being mean just stating the fact that when the image of Ashlee and the words CW appear on my screen it doesn't exactly make me want to tune in...