Rounding the upfronts off, it’s time to look at The CW’s new shows for Fall 2010. There’s two of them, so this won’t be hard.
First up is Hellcats, which is exec-produced by Superman himself, Tom Welling. It’s about cheerleaders. That’s all you really need to know.
The second is Nikita, which stars Maggie Q as Nikita. Looks more than a bit rubbish to me and the acting is truly dreadful, but let’s see how it pans out.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
