The CW Fall 2007 Premieres

The CW has announced it’s Fall 2007-08 premiere schedule. As MO has previously mentioned, Thursday night will stay strong with “Smallville” starring Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum premiering at 8 p.m. on Sept. 27 and “Supernatural” starring Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki at 9 p.m. on Oct. 4. And that really is all the network has with a solid foundation and a good bet for success and quality.

The rest of the season looks a little grim, except, ironically, for “Reaper,” a new series for Tuesday nights that will debut at 9 p.m. on Sept. 25 according to the list posted by ComingSoon. If you go by the premise and the first few minutes of the extended trailer alone, the story about an unlikely hero whose parents sold his soul to the devil and now he has to be a bounty hunter for the devil might sound a little out there, even ridiculous. Until you know that it comes from director Kevin Smith. Then, everything makes sense, and if you didn’t see the potential before, you might now.

As for what else The CW has on the lineup beyond the best, there’s a lot that comprises the rest: “Everybody Hates Chris” comes back on Mondays starting Oct. 1 at 8 p.m., new series “Aliens in America” follows at 8:30 p.m., then Wednesday has a new series called “Gossip Girl” at 9 p.m. premiering on Sept. 6, which of course follows “America’s Next Top Model” to make Wednesday night seem especially vain and empty, and finally, Sunday has three new series with “CW Now” at 7 p.m. followed by “Online Nation” both premiering on Sept. 23 and “Life Is Wild” at 8 p.m. starting Oct. 7. Like Fox, it seems that the best shows are on the same nights, real show of the drama and even teen angsty kind are being dropped, and everything else with the rare exception is reality waiting to dumb TV down even more.

Thankfully, the CW has one of the absolute best, thoroughly enjoyable and most highly underrated shows on television today “Supernatural,” and of course, the chronicles of Superman in the making with “Smallville” as smart and worthy heavy-hitters.