The CW Network's Monday Midseason Schedule

January to April 2010 Original Episodes of Their Popular Dramas

Nov 22, 2009
Francine Brokaw

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Three series on The CW will air on revolving schedules during the first part of 2010. These shows are Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and Life UneXpected.

Mid-season is the time when networks air their replacement shows and bring out new episodes of their popular series. The CW recently announced their mid-season schedule for Monday nights. This will be a rotation of three dramas: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, and a new series, Life UneXpected. The first two will air their season finales on April 19. All of the mid-season airings are new episodes.

Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill are proven hits for the network, and they are planning on Life UneXpected joining their ranks as another dramatic hit for The CW.

Life UneXpected

Life UneXpected, a new drama series will premier Monday, January 19, 2010 at 9 PM ET. Britt Robertson stars as 15-year-old Lux, who has been bouncing around from one foster home to another. She is tired of this uncertain life, so she decides to become an emancipated minor.

As she winds her way through the legal process, she discovers her biological parents, Nate and Cate (Kristfoffer Polaha and Shiri Appleby). A judge grants temporary custody to Nate and Cate who, after all these years, try to give Lux the family she deserves, missed, and desperately wants.

The series moves to a different time slot later in the spring.

Gossip Girl

The CW’s number one series with women ages 18-34 is based on the novels by Cicily von Ziegesar. Filmed in New York, Gossip Girl stars Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, and others as privileged young adults making their way through their high life in the big city.

Gossip Girl premiered on The CW in 2007 and is a highly rated series for the network.

One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill stars Bethany Joy Galeotti, James Lafferty, Sophia Bush and others in this long-running series. Debuting in 2003, One Tree hill follows a group of young adults in a small, North Carolina town called Tree Hill. Life in a small town still has all the ups and downs of any large city, and the episodes of this series have seen the characters through many interesting times.

Each one of these three series will rotate through the mid-season schedule on Monday nights.

The Monday Primetime Drama Series Schedule

The CW’s Monday midseason primetime rotation with all original episodes is:

January 18 – March 1, 2010

One Tree Hill airs at 8 PM ET/PT
Life UneXpected airs at 9 PM ET/PT

March 8 – April 12,2010

Life UneXpected airs at 8 PM ET/PT
Gossip Girl airs at 9 PM ET/PT

April 19,2010 Season Finales

One Tree Hill airs its season finale at 8 PM ET/PT
Gossip Girl airs its season finale at 9 PM ET/PT

Francine Brokaw - Francine Brokaw is a veteran writer/journalist.

Comments

Dec 27, 2009 8:55 AM

Guest :

The entire premise of her needing permission from her biological parents to become emancipated is incorrect. For one thing, minors to not need to obtain parental permission in order to become emancipated. Generally speaking, the minor must be able to prove to a court that she can support herself and must be living separately from the parents, although in some states the minor may be living with her parents by paying rent. If the court agrees that the minor is able to live on her own, and believes that emancipation is in her best interest, emancipation may be granted by the court. No parental permission is required.

Although no parental permission is required to become an emancipated minor, if it were required, parents who relinquished their child (or whose parental rights were otherwise terminated) would not qualify to give permission. They are no longer the legal parents of the minor. A minor who has been relinquished by her parents but has never been adopted, in fact, has no legal parents. Certainly she has parents by nature. But, she has no parents by law.

I think it would be best if they chose a more realistic reason for Lux to have sought out her parents. For example, many people who were relinquished at an early age search for their biological families simply because they want to know who they are and they want to know the truth of their origins and relinquishment. Why, then, the writers felt they needed to create a premise that couldn't exist anyway, I don't know.

Jan 14, 2010 8:28 AM

Guest :

I like to watch the life unexpected new series on monday nights january,18th,2010 at 9/8c.oh besides what about a juno meets a gilmore girls for new drama television shows on the cw tv to talk about 2010 for winter.

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