The network has used Whose Line as a way to shore up sort spots in their schedule and hold up their comedic programming in wake of genre dramas taking over the rest of the schedule. This past season, the series was paired with Hart of Dixie, the lightest drama on the network and the most incongruous with the rest of their schedule, while this summer, it’s been tasked with helping Beauty and the Beast, Seed, and Backpackers. Rather than giving Whose Line a break, since the show has been airing a heavy mix of reruns and originals for much of the last year, The CW is hoping that Aisha Tyler and company can improve their Friday schedule, as Whose Line is paired with fellow unscripted series America’s Next Top Model.

It’s a risky strategy, leaning this heavily on something that’s not a ratings giant. Whose Line might be the most cost-effective series on The CW when its ratings are looked at against its budget, but it’s not a juggernaut and doesn’t have that far to fall before it’s less an asset and more a liability. Should the show be towering over the rest of The CW programming similar to how The Voice dominated NBC for seasons, playing it as much as they have would be understandable; what The CW is risking, though, is dulling the impact of a valuable piece of programming and not using it to its greatest potential, particularly when it comes to their lackadaisical fall schedule.

Whose Line is it Anyway? currently airs Mondays at 8:30 on The CW. You can check out a preview of the next episode, set to feature Big Bang Theory star Kunal Nayyar, below.

Will you be watching Whose Line is it Anyway? next season? Do you think The CW is on the verge of overplaying the show and dulling its ratings effectiveness? Who else would you like to see guest star on Whose Line?

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-ABC Family will be running the five episodes of reality series The Vineyard on Monday, August 26th from 6:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. The series focuses on locals and “wash-ashores” on Martha’s Vineyard and the relationship drama that follows them.

-Do you like FX? Want to know if you will have FXX come September 2nd, the day the network will officially launch? You can check out GetFXX.com to see if you’ll be able to watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League, and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell live. The network will reportedly be available in 72 million homes upon its debut.

–Oprah’s Lifeclass has officially won the Primetime Emmy for Creative Achievement in Interactive Media – Social TV Experience, a category voted on by a jury of professionals in the relevant peer group. The series finds millions of students all over the world interacting with Winfrey on-air, online, and via social media as they listen to an expert meant to help them live more fulfilling lives. OWN has also doubled the episode order for Tyler Perry’s Love Thy Neighbor, bringing the comedy up to 52 episodes for its first season, and while ordering four more installments of Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots and moving Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse over from TBS beginning Wednesday, September 18th at 9:00.

–True Blood star Stephen Moyer has signed on to star in NBC’s production of The Sound of Music as Captain Georg Van Trapp. The three-hour live event, also starring country music star Carrie Underwood, is set to air December 5th.

-ABC Family has ordered three comedy pilots: Mystery Girls, starring Tori Spelling as a former TV star forced to solve crimes with her mystery TV series co-star; Work Mom, which follows digital marketer Heather as she gets a promotion and hires her mother; and Young & Hungry, about a tech entrepreneur who hires a food blogger as his personal chef. A decision about whether any of these will be picked up to series and join the network’s comedy roster, which includes Baby Daddy and Melissa & Joey, will come early next year.

-Kendrick Lamar leads the way with 14 nominations at the BET Hip Hop Awards, which will air October 15th and be hosted by Snoop Dogg. Other major nominees, which you can see here, include J. Cole, Drake, and Wale.

-Comedian Dave Attell has landed a weekly late-night stand-up series. Yet to be titled, the eight-episode first season will feature comedians performing uncensored and unfiltered sets, with new faces mixed in with familiar favorites. He previously had travelogue Insomniac with Dave Attell on the network, which ran from 2001-2004 and inspired several one-hour specials during its run.

-History has greenlit production on a scripted miniseries based on famed magician Harry Houdini. Starring Adrien Brody and Kristen Connolly, Houdini follows the man as he “finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.”

-Upcoming ABC Family drama Ravenswood will be given a special new promo during the summer finale of Pretty Little Liars, airing Tuesday. Also, the network will initiate the #RavenswoodReveal challenge, as star Tyler Blackburn will tweet a portion of a photo that holds clues to the series. Once it reaches 1022 retweets, in honors of the show’s October premiere date, one of his four co-stars (Nicole Gale Anderson, Brett Dier, Britne Oldford, and Merritt Patterson) will tweet another part of the photo, looking for 1022 retweets, and so on.

-Syfy has put a new reality series from the producers of Face Off into development. Camera Ready will put ten aspiring costume designers through challenges in creating wardrobe for television, film, and music videos. They’ll be evaluated by Oscar-winning costume designers, cutting-edge directors, and avant-garde fashionistas, with the winner taking home $100,000.

-On September 7th at 9:00, Animal Planet will be holding a countdown of the Top 20 Kitten Moments, with regular interruptions scheduled for glimpses at the Animal Planet L!VE’s Kitten Cam. If you can’t wait, the network has set up an exclusive live stream of the second annual Walker Art Center Internet Cat Video Film Festival, set to begin August 28th at 8:30 p.m. on AnimalPlanet.com/CatVidFest. A butter sculpture of a cat will also be revealed during the hour.

-The CW has set its summer finale dates, as well as ordered one-hour special Colin & Brad: Two Man Group (with Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood) and a one-hour Arrow recap special titled Year One. The schedule is as follows:

–Renewals: NBC has ordered a 10-episode second season of Hollywood Game Night, while TBS has renewed Men at Work for a 10-episode third season, Sullivan & Son for a 13-episode third season, and Deal with It for a 10-episode second season. Deon Cole’s Black Box remains the only TBS original with its fate up in the air.

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“It’s clear that viewers are as excited to have ‘Whose Line’ back on the air as  we are,” said Mark Pedowitz, President, The CW. “We have wanted to bring comedy back to The CW for   long time, and Aisha, Wayne, Colin, and Ryan have brought funny to the network in a big way. We’re very excited to have them back for another season.”

-Emmy nominated online series Burning Love will be airing its second and third seasons this fall on E!. Created by Erica Oyama, the Bachelor spoof has featured the likes of June Diane Raphael, Michael Ian Black and Adam Scott. No premiere date or scheduling strategy has been announced as of yet.

-CBS has opted to delay the series premiere of Greg Garcia’s The Millers in favor of running two episodes of The Big Bang Theory on Thursday, September 26th, likely in order to boost the series premiere of The Crazy Ones, starring Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The Millers will now premiere on Thursday, October 3rd at 8:30. You can check out the rest of the CBS fall premiere dates here.

-Joining Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Honourable Woman, an eight-part Sundance miniseries, will be Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta), Janet McTeer (The White Queen), Eve Best (Nurse Jackie), Lubna Azbal (Paradise Now), and Igal Naor (300: Rise of an Empire), the network announced Monday. The thriller will follow a woman who inherits her father’s arms company and uses it to laying high-spec data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank.

-Robin Thicke is set to perform “Blurred Lines”, his first number one single, on America’s Got Talent on Wednesday, July 31st. The single is taken from the album of the same name, which sees its release the day prior to his appearance on the NBC talent competition.

-Darren Criss and Lucy Hale have been named hosts for the 2013 Teen Choice Awards, airing live August 11th at 8:00 on FOX. This will be the first time they’ll be hosting the show, which will feature appearances from the likes of Russell Westbrook, Rebel Wilson, and Demi Lovato, as well as performances from Paramore and One Direction.

-Disney Channel has renewed Gravity Falls for a second season. No information about debut date or episode count has been released.

-Casting news: Oscar nominee Annette Bening may heading to her first series regular television role, as she’s collaborating with Jay Roach (Game Change) on an HBO comedy about a casting director from New Mexico. Meanwhile, Orange is the New Black has added Lorraine Touissant (The Fosters) as a woman who used children to help run her drug business and boosted Danielle Brooks (aka Taystee) to a series regular. Sharknado alum Aubrey Peeples is set to recur on Nashville as a reality singing competition runner-up who seems as sweet and gracious as can be.

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