CW's fall

You may say, "Hey Matt, what's with all the posts on a Saturday." Well I'm bored. No work... poker tournament canceled... and the only baseball game I've watched so far this season is joyfully a blowout here in the 4th.

Anyway, so as not to seem too eager to write, I'll only quickly go over the CW. They deserve only a brief, weekend mention after kicking Veronica Mars off the schedule. Despite the fact it still hasn't been a confirmed kill, I'm still not very confident.

Anyway, the youngest (in many ways) network plans six new shows for the season.

Aliens in America (8:30 p.m. Mondays) follows a teenager and the new exchange student his family signs up to host. The family isn't prepared for the kid to be Musilm, though. The two boys hit it off and face high school together. The show's in a good place after Everybody Hates Chris and may have the most interesting premise of any of the new fall shows I've read about.

Maybe in better shape (but only because geek-god Kevin Smith is attached) is Reaper (9 p.m. Tuesdays). Smith executive produces the show and directs at least the pilot. It's another supernatural story about a kid whose parents sold his soul to the devil. Now he has to play bounty hunter and bring bad souls back to hell.

Gossip Girl (9 p.m. Wednesday) fits best into the network's future plans, covering the story of a Manhattan prep school where an anonymous blogger has the school under her thumb. It gets the cushy Next Top Model lead-in.

The last new drama, Life is Wild (8 p.m. Sunday) takes a reluctant teen to South Africa with her family so her father can work at a game reserve. It will follow two new "reality" shows, as the network calls them: Newsertainment magazine CW Now and Online Nation, which scours the Web for user-created content and airs it.

Midseason shows will include One Tree Hill and Pussycat Dolls, and two new "reality shows:" Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants, a mother-daughter competition show leading up to a beauty pageant finale, and Farmer Wants a Wife... think The Bachelor with a farmer and city girls.

Here's the schedule:

MONDAY: Everybody Hates Chris at 8 p.m., Aliens in America at 8:30 p.m., Girlfriends at 9 p.m. and The Game at 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY: Beauty and the Geek at 8 p.m., Reaper at 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY: America's Next Top Model at 8 p.m., Gossip Girl at 9 p.m.
THURSDAY: Smallville at 8 p.m., Supernatural at 9 p.m.
FRIDAY: Friday Night Smackdown at 8 p.m.
SUNDAY: CW Now at 7 p.m., Online Nation at 7:30 p.m., Life is Wild at 8 p.m.

Notable returns: None, really.
Omissions: Veronica Mars, All of Us