The CW's New Shows, From Best to ... Second Best

The CW is not a large network. Co-owned by CBS and Warner Bros., its target viewers are the teens and twentysomethings who play Minecraft, watch Netflix, work at odd hours or attend school, and so its lineup doesn't rate as highly in the 18-49 demo as the other four. That said, it has quietly become home to several interesting dramas in the last few years—fun stuff like Arrow and The Vampire Diaries that's watched by a passionate few. This year it has only two new shows, but both are interesting for what they reveal about how to program for a young demographic and how little they resemble anything else on TV.

This is the last of our broadcast roundups; we did CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox earlier this week.

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