You'll Have to Wait Until 2021 for New Episodes of The Flash and Riverdale

Filming in the entertainment industry has largely ground to a halt due to COVID-19, but the broadcast TV networks are starting to announce their fall lineups for later this year. Fox was the first network to lay out its fall schedule, leaning on animated shows, reality programming, sports, already-completed dramas, and acquired series from other cable and streaming partners to beef up its roster while the ability to film scripted series is still uncertain. Now The CW has revealed its fall 2020 and midseason schedule, announcing that it will "officially launch its new season in January 2021 with its regularly scheduled series line-up, while loading up Fall 2020 with fresh original and acquired scripted series and alternative programming," in an attempt to safeguard against further coronavirus-related filming delays. Like Fox, The CW will be relying on acquired series, reality, and unscripted shows to carry it through to 2021, with the back half of Supernatural's final season the only returning series slated for a fall premiere date. We'll update this post with ABC, NBC, and CBS's fall schedules as they're announced. The networks aren't expected to announce exact premiere dates until later this summer, but these early announcements help give us a sense of how each network plans to program every weeknight, and which shows will be held until midseason. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=fall-tv-schedule-2020&captions=true"]

The CW Fall 2020 TV Schedule

Renewed and New TV Shows on The CW

The CW is benching all of its biggest returning series - including The Flash, Riverdale, and Batwoman - until 2021, along with its four new shows, Superman & Lois, The Republic of Sarah, and reboots of Kung Fu and Walker, Texas Ranger. The only returning drama on The CW's fall 2020 schedule is the back half of Supernatural's final season, which has seven remaining episodes still to air, two of which have yet to be filmed. Supergirl will also be delayed until after star Melissa Benoist returns from maternity leave, with a return date yet to be determined. CW boss Mark Pedowitz told reporters that he hopes filming will start in September for the majority of the network's scripted shows to get them ready for a midseason launch, while Supernatural will need to resume production on its final two episodes in late summer or early fall - although if that doesn't prove possible, the final seven episodes will be rescheduled. "Everybody ... wants to end 15 years the right way," he said. "We'll wait it out. We are very much attached to this." Instead, The CW will be filling its fall lineup with series acquired from (and cancelled by) other networks, including DC Universe's Swamp Thing, and CBS All Access' Tell Me a Story, as well as unscripted series like Whose Line Is It Anyway and Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Here are all the CW shows that will premiere in January 2021:

• All American
• Black Lightning
• The Flash
• Superman & Lois
• Riverdale
• Nancy Drew
• Walker
• Legacies
• Batwoman
• Charmed

And here's the list of shows that will premiere in "midseason 2021," whenever that ends up being (technically fall 2021, maybe?):

• Kung Fu
• The Republic of Sarah
• DC's Legends of Tomorrow
• Dynasty
• In the Dark
• Roswell, New Mexico
• Supergirl

The fate of Katy Keene has yet to be determined. Here's how The CW describes its four new shows, which will premiere in 2021:

SUPERMAN & LOIS

After years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, the world’s most famous superhero, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin) and comic books’ most famous journalist, Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch), come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever - dealing with all the stress, pressures, and complexities that come with being working parents in today’s society. Complicating the already daunting job of raising two boys, Clark and Lois must also concern themselves with whether or not their sons Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) and Jordan (Alexander Garfin) could inherit their father’s Kryptonian superpowers as they grow older.  Returning to Smallville to handle some Kent family business, Clark and Lois are reacquainted with Lana Lang (Emmanuelle Chriqui), a local loan officer who also happens to be Clark’s first love, and her Fire Chief husband Kyle Cushing (Erik Valdez).  The adults aren’t the only ones rediscovering old friendships in Smallville as the Kent sons are reacquainted with Lana and Kyle’s rebellious daughter, Sarah (Inde Navarrette). Of course, there’s never a dull moment in the life of a superhero, especially with Lois’ father, General Samuel Lane (Dylan Walsh) looking for Superman to vanquish a villain or save the day at a moment’s notice.  Meanwhile, Superman and Lois’ return to idyllic Smallville is set to be upended when a mysterious stranger (Wolé Parks) enters their lives.

Walker

A reimagining of the long-running series Walker, Texas Ranger, Walker stars Jared Padalecki as Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, who returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there’s harder work to be done at home. He’ll attempt to reconnect with his creative and thoughtful son (Kale Culley) and his headstrong, somewhat rebellious teenaged daughter (Violet Brinson) and navigate clashes with his family - an ADA brother (Keegan Allen) who stepped in during Walker’s absence, his perceptive mother (Molly Hagen) and his traditional rancher father (Mitch Pileggi). Walker’s former colleague is now his Ranger Captain, (Coby Bell). Walker finds unexpected common ground with his new partner (one of the first women in Texas Rangers’ history) played by Lindsey Morgan, while growing increasingly suspicious about the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death.

Kung Fu

  A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman, Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption and her own parents (Tzi Ma and Kheng Hua Tan) are at the mercy of a powerful Triad.  Nicky will rely on her tech-savvy sister (Shannon Dang), pre-med brother (Jon Prasida), Assistant District Attorney and ex-boyfriend (Gavin Stenhouse), and new love interest (Eddie Liu) as well as her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice ... all while searching for the ruthless assassin (Gwendoline Yeo) who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her.

The Republic of Sarah

The bucolic tranquility of Greylock, New Hampshire is upended when a massive vein of coltan – an incredibly valuable mineral used in tech – is discovered under the town. State-backed mining company Lydon Industries swoops in with plans to extract the mineral … plans that include wiping Greylock off the map. With her friends and family in danger of losing their homes, rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper (Stella Baker) vows to stop Lydon’s bulldozers. It won’t be easy. Leading Lydon’s efforts is Sarah’s estranged brother, Danny Cooper (Luke Mitchell). After enduring a difficult childhood at the hands of his mother, former state senator Ellen Cooper (Megan Follows), Danny is eager to exact his revenge on a community he feels abandoned him.  Sarah enlists her friends – fellow teacher Corinne Dearborn (Hope Lauren), police officer Amy “AJ” Johnson (Nia Holloway), and diner manager Grover Simms (Ian Duff) – in the fight against Danny, but there seems to be no way to stop the town’s impending demise … Until Sarah proposes an oddly intriguing solution: Greylock could declare independence. Citing various historical maps, she explains that the land on which Greylock sits was never properly claimed by the United States. If Sarah and her friends can convince the town to vote for independence, Greylock would gain international sovereignty and could protect its land for good.  With the help of a group of supporters that includes three of her teenage students – LA transplant Maya Jimenez (Izabella Alvarez), introspective outsider Tyler Easterbrook (Forrest Goodluck), and preppy “popular girl” Bella Whitmore (Landry Bender) – Sarah and her friends win the vote. And after a federal judge agrees that Greylock isn’t – and never was – part of the United States, the town becomes a new nation.  Now, Sarah and her allies must confront an even more daunting task: building a country from scratch.

Fox Fall 2020 TV Schedule

Renewed and New TV Shows on Fox

Fox has renewed reality shows The Masked Singer and Masterchef Junior, along with animated comedies The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, and Bless the Harts. With animated shows able to continue production and reality shows more easily able to be filmed without audiences and with social distancing precautions on set, this makes the lineup a little more secure from coronavirus-related delays. New series premiering on Fox this fall include Next, "a propulsive, fact-based thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence that combines pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives," starring John Slattery, and Filthy Rich, "a southern Gothic family soap in which wealth, power and religion collide – with outrageously soapy results. When the patriarch (Gerald McRaney) of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife (Kim Cattrall) and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune." Both shows have already been filmed and were initially planned to debut as part of the 2019-2020 season. Fox will also be the broadcast home of Bad Boys spinoff LA's Finest, which follows Syd Burnett (Gabrielle Union), "last seen in Miami taking down a drug cartel, who has seemingly left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba), a working mom with an equally complex history, Syd is forced to confront how her unapologetic lifestyle may be masking a greater personal secret." The series previously aired on Spectrum last year. And Fox will offer the broadcast debut of Cosmos: Possible Worlds, the third installment of the science docuseries produced by Seth MacFarlane and hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, which aired on National Geographic earlier this year. At midseason, Fox will air drama series 911 and spinoff 911: Lonestar, animated series Duncanville, and reality series Hell's Kitchen, along with new comedy series Call Me Kat, starring and executive produced by Mayim Bialik, and animated shows The Great North and Housebroken. Fox shows that have yet to be renewed or cancelled include Prodigal Son, The Resident, Last Man Standing, Outmatched, Almost Family, and Deputy, while Empire already aired its final season. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/02/20/10-times-the-simpsons-predicted-the-future"] Here are all the Fox and CW shows coming out in Fall 2020. (All times ET/PT unless otherwise noted.)

New and Returning Shows on Monday Night

8:00 PM                              LA's Finest (Fox), Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW) 9:00 PM                              Next (Fox), Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW)

New and Returning Shows on Tuesday Night

8:00 PM                              Cosmos: Possible Worlds (Fox), Swamp Thing (The CW) 9:00 PM                              Filthy Rich (Fox), Tell Me a Story (The CW)

New and Returning Shows on Wednesday Night

8:00 PM                              The Masked Singer (Fox), Two Sentence Horror Stories (The CW) 8:30 PM                              Dead Pixels (The CW) 9:00 PM                              Masterchef Junior (Fox), Coroner (The CW)

New and Returning Shows on Thursday Night

7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT     Fox NFL Thursday (Fox) 8 PM ET/5 PM PT               GMC Kickoff Show (Fox), Supernatural (The CW) 8:20 PM ET/5:20 PM PT     Thursday Night Football (Fox) 9 PM                                   The Outpost (The CW)

New and Returning Shows on Friday Night

8:00 PM                              WWE’s Friday Night Smackdown (Fox), World's Funniest Animals (The CW) 9:00 PM                              Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW)

New and Returning Shows on Saturday Night

7:00 PM                              Fox Sports Saturday (Fox)

New and Returning Shows on Sunday Night

7:00 PM                              NFL on Fox (Fox) 7:30 PM                              The OT / Fox Encores (Fox) 8:00 PM                              The Simpsons (Fox) 8:30 PM                              Bless the Harts (Fox) 9:00 PM                              Bob's Burgers (Fox) 9:30 PM                              Family Guy (Fox)

Midseason 2020-2021 TV Schedule (January)

Monday

8:00 PM                              All American (The CW) 9:00 PM                              Black Lightning (The CW)

Tuesday

8:00 PM                             The Flash (The CW) 9:00 PM                             Superman & Lois (The CW)

Wednesday

8:00 PM                             Riverdale (The CW) 9:00 PM                             Nancy Drew (The CW)

Thursday

8:00 PM                             Walker (The CW) 9:00  PM                            Legacies (The CW)

Friday

8:00 PM                             Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW) 9:00 PM                             Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW)

Sunday

8:00 PM                            Batwoman (The CW) 9:00 PM                            Charmed (The CW) We'll update this post with more network schedules as they're announced.

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