Thursday, May 16, 2019

Comics on TV-fall 2019-20 preview

The CW has announced its fall slate. Some shows stay on the same night, others are moving.

For example, the much hyped Batwoman, a spin-off from Arrow, will be coupled with Supergirl on Sundays. Executive producer Greg Berlanti will have Sunday-Tuesday all to himself, with the remake of Charmed shifting to Fridays to join another Aaron Spelling reboot, Dynasty.

The lineup:

Sundays (all times ET):

8: Batwoman
9: Supergirl (new time)

Mondays:

8: All American (new night & time)
9: Black Lightning

Tuesdays:

8: The Flash
9: Arrow (new night, final season)

Wednesdays:

8: Riverdale
9: Nancy Drew (Dynamite owns the license on Nancy these days, as she's already appeared in a couple of miniseries)

Thursdays will stay the same with Supernatural & Legacies, and, as mentioned, Charmed & Dynasty will be paired on Fridays.

Legends of Tomorrow and Katy Keene, a freshman entry based on the Archie comics property, will be mid-season entries. If I could hazard a guess, I'd say Katy is ticketed for Wednesdays to relieve Nancy Drew, following a likely back-door pilot on Riverdale, while Legends will move back to its original night, Tuesdays, after Arrow finishes its run in December. In all, Berlanti will have 9 series on the CW roster this season. Still another Berlanti entry, NBC's Blindspot, will be held until mid-season there.

Oni Press' Stumptown hasn't had any new material in four years, but ABC has adapted the series for its fall lineup, airing on Wednesdays. If you've never read the books, check with your local comics shop to see if they have the trade paperbacks. Anyway, Cobie Smulders (ex-Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, How I Met Your Mother) will star in the TV version. Speaking of SHIELD, it'll once again be a mid-season entry for ABC, just as it is now.


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