The fifth and final network upfront is out, covering CW's fall schedule.  Here are my thoughts and what I anticipate I will be covering in one degree or another next season.  The following is the schedule released by the network on 17 May 2007:

Following is The CW's 2007-2008 prime-time schedule.

Monday
8-8:30 pm Everybody Hates Chris
8:30-9 pm Aliens in America
9-9:30 pm Girlfriends
9:30-10 pm The Game

Tuesday
8-9 pm Beauty and the Geek
9-10 pm Reaper

Wednesday
8-9 pm America's Next Top Model
9-10 pm Gossip Girl

Thursday
8-9 pm Smallville
9-10 pm Supernatural

Friday
8-10 pm Friday Night SmackDown!

Sunday
7-7:30 pm CW Now
7:30-8 pm Online Nation
8-9 pm Life is Wild
9-10 pm America's Next Top Model


Monday

"Aliens in America" looks like cannon fodder.  Then again, so does most of the CW schedule.

Tuesday

I'm sorry to see "Veronica Mars" moving on; I liked having a regular dose of Kristen Bell in my life.  "Reaper" has me severely torn.  On the one hand, I like to support genre television, but this feels less like "Supernatural" and more like a poor man's version of "Ghostbusters".  I hate to say it, but "New Amsterdam" strikes me as more promising.

Wednesday

"Gossip Girl".  I really, really have no interest, and the night is already spoken for.

Thursday

This is exactly what I was hoping for: the preservation of my current schedule.  Obviously, "Smallville" and "Supernatural" will retain their stranglehold on the night, especially since this will probably be the last season for both shows, realistically speaking.

Friday

Do I really need to comment on this night anymore?

Sunday

CW adds nothing to this night, even with all the new programming.


So 12 shows will be reviewed out of the current list: "Heroes", "Journeyman", "Bionic Woman", "Lost", "Pushing Daisies", and "Moonlight", "24", "Prison Break", "New Amsterdam", "The Sarah Connor Chronicles", "Smallville", and "Supernatural".  Compared to the previous season, that's a net gain of +4.  That still feels like a lot, but in the next post, that will wrap things up for my thoughts on the fall season, I'll demonstrate why this may not be much of a problem.