The CW Announces Two New TV Shows to Join Returning Favorites

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CHICAGO – The CW announced its new fall line-up on Thursday and filled out five nights of original programming. Returning shows are “90210,” “Gossip Girl,” “One Tree Hill,” “Life Unexpected,” “America’s Top Model,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Supernatural” and the final season of “Smallville”.

The new shows added to the line-up are “Hellcats,” a coming-of-age story about a fabled college squad and the woman who must make that team to stay on campus, and “Nikita,” which stars Maggie Q – a Jackie Chan protege – in the title role as a duped government trained assassin who breaks away from her operatives and seeks revenge on the entire operation. This is based on the French film, “La Femme Nikita.”

“After just four short years as a network, The CW will premiere our strongest schedule ever this fall, with a combination of hit shows and exciting new series giving us all-original programming five nights a week for the first time,” said Dawn Ostroff, President of Entertainment at The CW. “We’ve been growing this network one hit at a time and we’re poised for a great 2010-11 season.”

Also announced for the summer is the reality show, “Plain Jane,” which helps a selected woman with a head-to-toe style transformation, and a midseason reality series tentatively entitled “Shedding for the Wedding.”

Star The CW’s 2010-2011 Primetime Schedule (All Times CST)

MONDAY
7pm  “90210” (New Night) 
8pm  “Gossip Girl”
 
TUESDAY
7pm  “One Tree Hill” (New Night) 
8pm “Life Unexpected” (New Night) 
 
WEDNESDAY 
7pm  “America’s Next Top Model”
8pm “Hellcats” (New Series)  
 
THURSDAY 
7pm  “The Vampire Diaries”
8pm “Nikita” (New Series) 
 
FRIDAY
7pm  “Smallville”
8pm “Supernatural” (New Night) 

Star New Series Descriptions

Ashley Tisdale of ‘Hellcats’
Ashley Tisdale of ‘Hellcats’

HELLCATS

Hellcats is a coming-of-age story about Marti Perkins, a young, pre-law student at Lancer University in Memphis, Tennessee.  Marti is cool, hip and alt, but her world flips up side down, literally and figuratively, when she loses her scholarship , and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer’s legendary cheerleading team, The Hellcats. Against her every instinct, Marti goes for it and makes the squad, and is thrust into a world of camaraderie, backstabbing and the intersection of sports, backroom academia and big money. Marti’s new roommate, Savannah Monroe, a petite, peppy Texan, is among the diverse cast of athletes, undergrads, family and friends, all set on the sprawling campus of a powerhouse college football program in the deep South.  The series stars Aly Michalka as Marti Perkins, Ashley Tisdale as Savannah Monroe, Heather Hemmens as Alice Verdura, Robbie Jones as Lewis Flynn, Matt Barr as Dan Patch, with Sharon Leal as Vanessa Lodge and Gail O’Grady as Wanda Perkins. 

Maggie Q of ‘Nikita’
Maggie Q of ‘Nikita’

NIKITA

When she was a deeply troubled teenager, Nikita was rescued from death row by a secret U.S. agency known only as Division, who faked her execution and told her she was being given a second chance to start a new life and serve her country. What they didn’t tell her was that she was being trained as a spy and assassin. Ultimately, Nikita was betrayed and her dreams shattered by the only people she thought she could trust.  Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita is seeking retribution and making it clear to her former bosses that she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy their covert operation.  For the time being, however, Division continues to recruit and train other young people, erasing all evidence of their former lives and turning them into cold and efficient killers. One of these new recruits, Alex, is just beginning to understand what lies ahead for her and why the legendary Nikita made the desperate decision to run.  The series stars Maggie Q as Nikita, Lyndsy Fonseca as Alex, Shane West as Michael, Aaron Stanford as Birkhoff, Ashton Holmes as Thom, Tiffany Hines as Jaden, with Melinda Clarke as Amanda and Xander Berkeley as Percy. 

Louise Roe of ‘Plain Jane’
Louise Roe of ‘Plain Jane’

PLAIN JANE

PLAIN JANE is a new summer reality series that transforms one woman from the inside out to reveal a brand new woman. Each of the eight episodes will feature a new “Jane” searching for the change of a lifetime. With the help of British fashion expert Louise Roe (“Fashion Police: The 2009 Grammy Awards”), each Plain Jane will receive a head-to-toe style transformation, including new wardrobe and confidence-building exercises. Once the transformation is complete, the formerly Plain Jane will surprise her unsuspecting crush with the new look and reveal her true feelings to him.  A love connection is – or isn’t – made. Hosted by Louise Roe

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HollywoodChicago.com senior staff writer Patrick McDonald

By PATRICK McDONALD
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