CW Announces Renewals

After ABC announced last week its renewals, it was CW’s time on Monday to announce its series which will come back this fall.

The net said that there will be six series, four dramas, one comedy and one original reality show, that will come back.

In fall America's Next Top Model, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Supernatural and Everybody Hates Chris are to return on CW.

America's Next Top Model, the reality show hosted by Tyra Banks, is the most popular series of the network. The series will return with two new cycles, the 11th and 12th, during the 2008-09 TV season.

Gossip Girl will return for the second season, without Mischa Barton. The teen drama has managed to gather a young fan base in its first season, with almost blockbuster ratings. It had an average of 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 2.6 million viewers.

One Tree Hill will be back for the sixth season.

It was easy to tell what will be the first picks for the CW as ANTM, Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill are the best ranked shows of the network among its targeted 18-34-year-old female demographic.

Smallville and Supernatural are also back on Thursday nights for the an eighth and fourth season this fall.

From the comedies only Chris Rock's critical hit Everybody Hates Chris remained standing for its fourth year. Today the show received the news that the rights for the series were bought for the cable channel Nick at Nite. The show will air from September 2009.

The CW announced that it will eliminate the comedy department with just one comedy renewed for next year.

Aliens in America, WWE's Smackdown and the Girlfriends won’t come back this fall.

WWE's Smackdown and the Girlfriends were canceled despite of the high ratings.