The CW Stocks Up on Sci-Fi

Network Orders Four New Dramas, Renews Nikita and Carrie Diaries

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Although it won’t formally unveil its 2013-14 schedule for another week, the CW on Thursday effectively mapped out the entirety of its 2013-14 programming strategy.

In addition to its previously announced pickup, The Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals, the youth-targeted network is going ahead with a trio of sci-fi projects and an historical drama about the life of Mary, Queen of Scots.

First up is The 100, an adaptation of Brooklyn writer Kass Morgan’s popular YA book series about a group of juvenile delinquents who are sent back to Earth to determine if the planet can be re-inhabited 95 years after a global thermonuclear war sent mankind packing.

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