The Tuesday dramas will also be concluding their 2013-2014 runs a week apart, with The Originals drawing to a close on May 13th at 8:00 and Supernatural‘s ninth season going out with a bang on May 20th at 9:00. Arrow will conclude its third season on Wednesday, May 14th at 8:00, with midseason drama The 100 stretching its way into June with a first season finale on June 11th at 9:00. The Thursday dramas will be the only CW pairing that ends on the same night, as The Vampire Diaries and Reign will have their respective season finales on Thursday, May 15th. The lone remaining series, Hart of Dixie, will end its third season on Friday, May 16th at 9:00.

No date has been set for the resumption of Beauty and the Beast‘s second season, though The CW has announced that two-part miniseries Labyrinth will air Thursday, May 22nd and Friday, May 23rd. The project, which stars the likes of Katie McGrath and Tom Felton, chronicles the journeys of two women separated by centuries as they hunt for The Holy Grail.

Season finale dates for ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX should all be released in the coming weeks, likely around the time we get summer schedules for each network.

Which CW finale are you most looking forward to? Of the currently unrenewed shows (Hart of Dixie, Beauty and the Beast, The Carrie Diaries, Star-Crossed, The 100, and The Tomorrow People), which do you think make it to another season? Are you surprised that talk of the end of the season has already begun?

The CW 2013-2014 Season Finale Dates
Monday, May 5th
9:00 The Tomorrow People

Monday, May 12th
8:00 Star-Crossed

Tuesday, May 13th
8:00 The Originals

Wednesday, May 14th
8:00 Arrow

Thursday, May 15th
8:00 The Vampire Diaries
9:00 Reign

Friday, May 16th
9:00 Hart of Dixie

Tuesday, May 20th
9:00 Supernatural

Wednesday, June 11th
9:00 The 100

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-Like to talk about television? Bravo has announced a new half-hour unscripted series titled The People’s Couch, which features real people watching and commenting on popular shows and news from the past week. The three-episode limited series will premiere Sunday, October 6th at 11:30.

–Community will begin its syndicated run on Comedy Central Sunday, September 15th with a 10-episode fan favorite marathon beginning at 11:30 a.m. The series, which is set to premiere its fifth season sometime midseason, will then move to its regular slot of Fridays at 9:00 beginning September 20th.

-Will Arnett, Margo Martindale, Jimmy Kimmel, Andre Braugher, Alec Baldwin, Bryan Cranston, Claire Danes, and Sofia Vergara have been named presenters at the 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards, CBS announced. They join Diahann Carroll, Matt Damon, Emily Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Douglas, Anna Faris, Tina Fey, Allison Janney, Amy Poehler, and Kerry Washington.

-National Geographic telefilm Killing Kennedy, starring Rob Lowe as President John F. Kennedy and Ginnifer Goodwin as Jackie Kennedy, will premiere Sunday, November 10th to mark the 60th anniversary of John and Jackie’s wedding. The film will then be released in 171 countries and 48 languages, timed to the 50th anniversary of the assassination.

-GSN has greenlit eight episodes of Skin Wars, a reality-competition series focused on finding the best body painter. The series will air sometime in 2014 and should be the second body painting-focused series on television, following the fall premiere of Syfy’s Naked Vegas.

-For its upcoming 13th season, American Idol has brought back Nominate an Idol, where friends and family members can submit videos of their loved one singing for a chance of a surprise audition. From now through September 20th, videos are being accepted on americanidol.com.

-MTV has greenlit two new drama pilots: Finding Carter, about a girl who finds out that the woman she thought was her mother abducted her as a toddler and must now return to her biological family, and Eye Candy, centering on a tech genius who uncovers a potential serial killer in Manhattan through online dating. Finding Carter is from Emily Silver (Bones) and Terri Minsky (Sex and the City), while Eye Candy comes from Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity) and Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight).

-Renewals/cancellations: We TV’s LA Hair has made it to a third season after becoming fourth most popular reality cable show in primetime and increasing its total viewers by nearly 60%; TLC has ordered another 10 episodes of Who Do You Think You Are?, executive produced by Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky; TruTV reality series Container Wars will have a second season; BET has canceled Reed Between the Lines and given the second season go-ahead to Being Mary Jane, whose first season doesn’t premiere until January.

-The CW has acquired Canadian comedy Seed from leading independent studio Entertainment One. The series, which debuted this past February and follows a single bartender who becomes a sperm donor, will premiere sometime this season.

-Mekhi Phifer and Eliza Coupe have joined the cast of Showtime comedy House of Lies in recurring roles. Phifer is set to play a successful entrepreneur who calls on Marty to help with his business, while Couple will portray a wild-child heiress to an internet fortune.

-Lifetime has picked up a personal shopping-themed reality series called Million Dollar Shoppers, where three personal shoppers try to meet the fashion needs of their clients. The series premieres October 10th at 10:30 before moving to 10:00 on October 24th, where it will follow the season premiere of Project Runway All Stars.

-Nickelodeon animated series Sanjay & Craig has been renewed for a second season, the network announced Thursday. The tale of an excitable 12-year-old boy (voiced by Maulik Pancholy) and his snake best friend (voiced by Chris Hardwick), the series will have 20 episodes in its second season. Additional voices in the cast include Linda Cardenelli, Matt Jones, and Tony Hale.

-EPIX will air Schooled: The Price of College Sports on October 16th at 8:00. The documentary, narrated by Sam Rockwell, takes a look at issues surrounding the business of college sports and the NCAA’s treatment of its athletes.

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The second episode of The Originals will air (for the first time) on Tuesday, October 8th, along with the ninth season premiere of Supernatural, pushed up a week from its original October 15th premiere. All other CW series will be premiering when the way the network announced sometime last month.

The move does two very positive things for the network. It shortens their fall rollout, concentrating the premiere dates in a tighter timeframe, and provides insurance for The Originals, thanks to the exposure behind The Vampire Diaries. The spin-off will be anchoring Tuesday nights this season and is set to go against the likes of NCIS and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., so while it comes with an impressive pedigree/cast and strong lead out, it’s not as sure of a thing as it could be. The new schedule allows for more sampling and could give the series enough padding to where a Tuesday drop won’t be as damaging.

You can check out trailers for The CW’s new series this season here and clips for each series here.

What do you think about the changes to The CW’s premiere strategy? Will the airings behind The Vampire Diaries help jump start The Originals? Which new CW series do you think is in the most danger of being DOA?

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3
8:00-9:00 PM                The Vampire Diaries (New Season Premiere Date)
9:00-10:00 PM              The Originals (New Series Premiere Date)

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7
8:00-9:00 PM                 Hart of Dixie (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM               Beauty and the Beast (Season Premiere)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8
8:00-9:00 PM                The Originals (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM              Supernatural (New Season Premiere Date)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9
8:00-9:00 PM                 Arrow (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM               The Tomorrow People (Series Premiere)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10
8:00-9:00 PM                 The Vampire Diaries (Original Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM               The Originals (Episode 2 Encore)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17
8:00-9:00 PM                The Vampire Diaries (Original Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM              Reign (New Series Premiere Date)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
8:00-9:00 PM                 The Carrie Diaries (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM               America’s Next Top Model: Guys and Girls

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The strategy of waiting until later to premiere their shows worked fairly well for The CW and helped Arrow become the type of building block needed to sustain the network. While the wait can allow people to already set their viewing habits, it reduced the amount of reruns the serial-heavy channel had to air and allowed them to have a certain marketing space all to themselves in which to launch their series. This season in particular should be a test for The CW, since their fall schedule is vastly different than where they were last season and could either pop thanks to the reshuffling or fizzle due to the movement. The network’s midseason series, post-apocalyptic The 100 and fantasy romance Star-Crossed, have yet to be schedule, while the finale of America’s Next Top Model: Guys and Girls has yet to be announced. The Tyra Banks-hosted reality-competition debuts on Friday, August 2nd at 8:00.

You can check out The CW’s fall 2013 schedule here, as well as trailers and previews for each of its new series here, here, and here.

Which CW series will you be watching next season? Should the network continue to delay the start of its season to October? Will any of the new CW shows breakout the way Arrow did last season?

Monday, October 7th
8:00 Hart of Dixie
9:00 Beauty and the Beast

Wednesday, October 9th
8:00 Arrow
9:00 The Tomorrow People

Thursday, October 10th
8:00 The Vampire Diaries
9:00 Reign

Tuesday, October 15th
8:00 The Originals
9:00 Supernatural

Friday, October 25th
8:00 The Carrie Diaries

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Which CW finale are you most excited for? Will you be sad to see 90210 sign off one final time? What type of answers will we find in each finale?

Tuesday, May 7th
8:00 Hart of Dixie – “On the Road Again”
After having a rough time in BlueBell, Zoe (Rachel Bilson) decides a little time in New York City might be the perfect opportunity to give her some much needed perspective, but a medical emergency on the plane forces her to complete the trip with an unexpected companion.  When Lemon (Jaime King) promises that the Rammer Jammer will be having a special concert with the band Gloriana, she must scramble to make it happen, with the less-than-enthusiastic help of Wade (Wilson Bethel).

Monday, May 13th
8:00 90210 – “We All Fall Down”
The series finale begins with the stars and executive producers bidding farewell to the famous zip code in a look back at the show’s many unforgettable moments.   Then, in a memorable send-off, our favorite group from Beverly Hills will come together again after a traumatic event that makes them realize the importance of their relationships.

Wednesday, May 15th
8:00 Arrow – “Sacrifice”
In the episode season finale, Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Diggle (David Ramsey) race to stop the Dark Archer (John Barrowman) from unleashing his vengeance on The Glades.  After hearing of the danger in The Glades, Thea (Willa Holland) races to find Roy (Colton Haynes), inadvertently putting herself directly in the line of fire for Malcolm’s (John Barrowman) devious plan.

9:00 Supernatural – “Sacrifice”
With Crowley (guest star Mark Sheppard) poised to undo all the good they’ve ever done as hunters, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) find themselves cornered.  But with Kevin’s (guest star Osric Chau) help, the Winchester brothers bound into one last play against The Demon King.

Thursday, May 16th
8:00 The Vampire Diaries – “Graduation”
On Graduation Day, Mystic Falls is overrun with ghosts intent on settling old scores.  Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) life is in danger after a ghostly encounter, while Matt (Zach Roerig) and Rebekah (Claire Holt) join forces to battle a ghost determined to find the cure. Finally, Stefan (Paul Wesley) discovers a horrifying clue to the mystery surrounding Silas.

9:00 Beauty and the Beast – “Never Turn Back”
When secrets about Cat’s (Kristin Kreuk) family are revealed, it will change everything Cat knew about her past.  Vincent (Jay Ryan) finds himself staring his demise in the face; while Gabe (Sendhil Ramamurthy) takes drastic measures get some answers.

Friday, May 17th
8:00 Nikita – “Til Death Do Us Part”
Amanda (Melinda Clarke) puts her final plan into motion and forces Nikita (Maggie Q) into a life-threatening situation, where she has to choose between saving Michael (Shane West) or saving herself.

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They thought it would be easy to stop the mauling, after all, the town was awash in verain – a rather cunning plan, I might add.

To tackle her great desire to a) nibble on some flesh and b) have a good time doing it, Elena rejoined the cheerleading squad with disastrous consequences. After she ate some of the competition and donned her hair ribbon as a trophy, she decided later it might be fun to throw a party at the Salvatore mansion to get everyone else off her back.

All of this started because of a love triangle between Stefan, Elena and Damon. Damon’s blood turned Elena and in odds that cannot even be described, she formed a sire bond with him. During this incredible trip, we learned it was Damon who met Elena first, but compelled her to forget him. She could have easily fallen in love with him first, but his actions prevented it. The triangle was much deeper than we were lead to believe. Even Stefan thought that Damon’s desire for Elena relied heavily on leftover feelings for Katherine, Elena’s doppelganger  than it did for Elena herself.

Interestingly, the same could be said for Stefan, but since he had tossed his badassery aside for emotions and a more humanistic approach to vampirism, it was forgiven. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Elena saw through the stinging side of Damon over and over again to form a friendship with him that nobody understood. Damon himself had a difficult time believing that a girl as sweet as Elena could see through his armor to the man he had hidden so deeply inside.

So when she fell so deeply in love with him after being turned, at first it was chalked up to her new found freedom of thought as a vampire. She had lost the ties that bind humans to to the more strict moral code and understood Damon more than ever. Elena and Damon reveled in each other. They flourished. Until Stefan decided there was nobody on this earth, human or vampire, who could possibly love his brother so deeply. It had to be a sire bond.

Stefan is the worst brother in the world.

It was Stefan’s great idea that by breaking the bond, Elena would be free to choose between the brothers and find her own way again. Except it backfired. It hurt. Damon remembered how much it hurt the first girl who was under his sire bond to lose him, but he went along with it. For his brother and because he wanted to do what was best for Elena. He also didn’t want Elena’s love under false pretenses. When you’re in love, the last thing you want is someone loving you back because of a spell. You want the real thing.

Just because Damon told Elena to walk away from him, didn’t mean the bond was entirely broken. She was just set adrift. Until Jeremy died. Then Stefan demanded even more from his brother. To tell Elena to turn off her emotion so she could stop hurting. So Elena turned off her emotion, and it turned out emotion was the string holding her to Damon. Without emotion the bond was truly broken.

Thank you, Stefan, for completely tossing Elena to the wind. No love, no emotion, no protection from herself. She’s lost and doing whatever she wants whenever she wants. Damon saw in her a bit of himself and took her to New York under the guise of finding Katherine and the cure. We’ll pick that story up tonight. They’ll party, feed, paint the town red – literally.

The real question lies in just how far gone Elena is. I believe a good portion of her behavior is an act, to teach the brothers Salvatore a lesson that they can’t play with the lives of others without consequences. It wasn’t Stefan’s decision to make whether she was happy due to a sire bond or not. She was happy. He should have let her stay that way. It was selfish of him to question. He was unaware of how close she and Damon had become pre-vampire, so he had no frame of reference for her feelings. Deciding that not feeling instead of feeling too much – also not his call to make. Stefan has been playing her like a puppet on a string, and if she’s in there, she should be pissed.

My call is a lot more of her behavior is an act. She’s torn between her love for Damon and Stefan and has chosen to stuff her humanity as far into her psyche as possible. Can she pull it out? Yes. Whether she chooses to and what she’ll do with it when she brings it out will be the most exciting part of Elena’s journey. Will she be more angry with Stefan for pulling the strings or with Damon for going along with it? With the right skill, this could be the biggest story The Vampire Diaries has ever played out.

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Klaus and Hayley spent the night doing the nasty and apparently setting up storyline for CW’s upcoming pilot, The Oirignals, while Tyler left the deed to his house to Matt and told Caroline goodbye – for good. Caroline was left to clean the Salvatore mansion after Elena’s big party. Not a fun task to begin with, it was interrupted by a visit from the man who sent her love running. Watch this clip to see how Caroline reacts when she sees Klaus.

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Meanwhile, Damon thought getting Elena out of Dodge (er..Mystic Falls) and into the Big Apple might be good for her. They can look for Katherine who is harboring the vampire cure they procured after resurrecting Silas and munch on unsuspecting New Yorkers without anyone noticing. In the city that never sleeps, they can slip in and out with hardly leaving a whisper behind. Or can they? Even in a city that size, Damon is bound to run into someone he knows. The clue is in the photo above (featuring guest star, Arielle Kebbel), not the clip below.

In the clip, Stefan reminds Damon that without her humanity, Elena is ruthless, but that doesn’t seem to stop them from a sexy romp above the NYC skyline (like you do). While they’re getting it on, Stefan tries to convince Klaus that his brother knows what he’s doing.

I’d say the odds on Caroline forgiving Klaus are far better than Damon and Elena leaving New York City unscathed, or the city making it through a night their unholy coupling without a scrape or two of its own.

Be sure to watch The Vampire Diaries Thursday, March 21, 8/7c to catch all the action!

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