Looks like some great new shows will be available for viewing in the NEW TV season and there will be some old favorites returning.
Per Sci Fi Wire.
The CW announced May 17 that it has picked up Reaper, a supernatural comedy / drama about a slacker who finds out his parents sold his soul to the devil, which will debut in the fall on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. The network also renewed Smallville for a seventh season in its current time slot, Thursdays at 8 p.m., and Supernatural, which returns for a third season in the same 9 p.m. Thursday slot. The network made the announcements at its upfront presentation for advertisers in New York.
Reaper, from executive producers Michelle Fazekas, Tara Butters, Mark Gordon, Deb Spera, Tom Spezialy and executive producer / director Kevin Smith, tells the story of a slacker named Sam (The Loop’s Bret Harrison), who learns that his parents accidentally sold his soul to the devil before he was born, forcing him into a new life as the devil’s bounty hunter. The show also stars Ray Wise (24) as Satan and Tyler Labine (Invasion) as Sam’s best friend Bert “Sock” Wysocki.
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Fox announced May 18 that it will wait until next January to premiere the Terminator inspired drama The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which will air Sundays at 9 p.m. Fox entertainment president Peter Ligouri made the announcement at the network’s up-front presentation for advertisers in New York, and noted that the series will air in the time slot once dominated by The X-Files. Chronicles will air uninterrupted until the end of the season in May. Based on the characters introduced in the Terminator films, the series stars Lena Headey in the title role and Thomas Dekker as her son, John Connor, the future leader of the human rebellion against an army of machines.
The network also picked up the supernatural drama New Amsterdam for the fall television season. Oscar award nominee Lasse Hallstrom directed the pilot and is producing the series, about a New York homicide detective who is immortal. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Kingdom of Heaven) stars as John Amsterdam, a former Dutch soldier who saved the life of a Native Indian girl during a massacre in 1642 and was granted the gift of immortality. According to the spell, he will not age until he finds his one true love. Stephen Henderson (Law & Order: SVU) and Alexie Gilmore (Find Love) also star. The series will air Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
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Tim Kring, creator and executive producer of Heroes, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming season finale will introduce new characters that will become central to the story in the second season. “There are several new characters coming in the immediate future,” Kring said in an interview. “The idea of the show from the start was always to basically honor the origin story of the first sort of blush and discovery of these powers. And so, in order to do that, new characters will have to be cycled into the show. And by extension, older characters will cycle out of the show."
While the first year of the show was subtitled “Volume One: Genesis,” the second season will be called “Volume Two: Generations."
"The idea of multiple generations has started to crop up on the show,” Kring said. “And in the second season we will deal with that more, hence the title, ‘Generations.’ ... The idea was that we wanted to make it easy for viewers to be able to come on in the second season. And we thought if we wrapped the show too tightly around itself, so that you had to watch 23 episodes before, It would be harder for a new viewer to find the show. And we always want to be a show that has the barrier of entry low enough so that new viewers can join if they want."
Kring confirmed that the show will indeed end on a cliffhanger, but one that hopefully won’t be frustrating for the viewers. “No, I think it’ll be intriguing more than frustrating,” he said. “The idea was to end one idea of the show, one story, and then slingshot you into the next season.” The two-hour season finale of Heroes airs Monday, May 21.