The CW, a list by Ryan Keast

7.7

/377255/

78

/17072/

83

/9426/

86

/126/

73

57

/31/

age 14+

The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.

75

7.5

/299764/

77

/22896/

79

/8459/

93

/106/

68

64

/34/

age 14+

100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.

73

7.5

/382797/

75

/26077/

78

/11464/

85

/176/

53

75

/39/

age 14+

After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.

72

56

7.1

/1786/

70

/151/

69

/22/

71

/17/

86

66

/11/

age 16+

Moses Johnson is a promising high-school athlete with a bright future who’s accused of murdering a police officer during a drug bust gone wrong. Swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system, Moses’ case is taken up by ageing public defender Franklin Roberts, who sees this as his chance to finally challenge the institutional racism at the heart of the judicial system.

72

7.5

/458875/

74

/33583/

68

/6198/

86

/307/

59

73

/30/

age 14+

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

75

7.5

/211891/

75

/8468/

82

/2243/

84

/50/

79

59

/47/

age 14+

An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.

76

8.2

/158689/

82

/8249/

86

/3518/

84

/51/

72

52

/16/

age 14+

The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.

78

7.8

/49017/

76

/3124/

80

/2622/

88

/55/

84

65

/18/

age 14+

After years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent and Lois Lane 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.

68

6.4

/164045/

66

/8608/

84

/13642/

81

/163/

49

68

/41/

age 14+

Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

72

7.2

/41306/

75

/2761/

84

/2985/

59

/5/

age 14+

In a place where young witches, vampires, and werewolves are nurtured to be their best selves in spite of their worst impulses, Klaus Mikaelson’s daughter, 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson, Alaric Saltzman’s twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman, among others, come of age into heroes and villains at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted.

73

7.7

/59402/

75

/2823/

73

/310/

81

/53/

89

43

/20/

age 14+

New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a small practice in Bluebell, Alabama.

NEW

69

6.7

/113943/

70

/8159/

72

/2406/

89

/80/

56

58

/28/

age 14+

When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

75

7.4

/57508/

76

/2985/

80

/860/

86

/64/

82

54

/25/

age 14+

Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.

74

7.6

/16223/

77

/1036/

81

/477/

63

/15/

age 14+

When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds - Compton and Beverly Hills - begin to collide. Inspired by the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger.

58

6.2

/47295/

66

/1642/

57

/204/

47

/20/

age 14+

90210 revolves around several students at the fictional West Beverly Hills High School, including new Beverly Hills residents Annie Wilson and Dixon Wilson. Their father, Harry Wilson, has returned from Kansas to his Beverly Hills childhood home with his family to care for his mother, former television and theater actress Tabitha Wilson, who has a drinking problem and clashes with his wife Debbie Wilson. Annie and Dixon struggle to adjust to their new lives while making friends and yet adhering to their parents' wishes.

76

62

7.1

/3241/

66

/179/

65

/21/

91

/11/

92

An odd couple sister and brother detective team in a small Pacific Northwest police force must contend with colorful residents, a serious lack of resources, and their very complicated dynamic with each other and with their police chief, Big Hank who happens to be their father.

75

7.7

/55901/

78

/4312/

72

/506/

88

/56/

69

69

/30/

age 14+

Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.

84

7.8

/63961/

79

/4031/

79

/882/

100

/133/

87

81

/30/

age 14+

A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."

77

7.8

/78408/

76

/7354/

77

/2887/

92

/98/

69

74

/38/

age 14+

A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.

61

6.2

/16540/

64

/712/

70

/381/

51

/8/

age 14+

Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home.

72

68

7.0

/4391/

66

/251/

68

/42/

77

/13/

89

63

/8/

age 14+

Sherlock Holmes faces a sinister case risking friends' lives. American Amelia joins, seeking her father after her mother's murder. Despite differences, they solve a conspiracy and her mother's case.

62

6.6

/9932/

70

/834/

74

/262/

39

/6/

age 14+

Talon, the lone survivor of a race called the Blackbloods, sets off to the edge of civilisation to track her family's killers. On her journey she discovers she has supernatural powers which she must learn to harness in order to achieve her goals.

62

7.0

/39071/

70

/2238/

73

/453/

51

/41/

76

34

/20/

age 14+

Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. When she was a teenager, she witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen and herself was saved by someone – or something. Years have passed and while investigating a murder, Catherine discovers a clue that leads her to Vincent Keller, who was reportedly killed in 2002. Catherine learns that Vincent is actually still alive and that it was he who saved her many years before. For mysterious reasons that have forced him to live outside of traditional society, Vincent has been in hiding for the past 10 years to guard his secret – when he is enraged, he becomes a terrifying beast, unable to control his super-strength and heightened senses.

69

7.5

/16556/

73

/744/

77

/203/

54

/6/

age 14+

Murphy is a flawed and irreverent woman who just happens to be blind and is the only “witness” to the murder of her drug-dealing friend, Tyson. When the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at Guiding Hope, the guide-dog school owned by her overprotective parents.

53

3.6

/48137/

53

/2334/

68

/1559/

83

/71/

22

59

/19/

age 14+

Kate Kane, armed with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind, soars onto the streets of Gotham as Batwoman, an out lesbian and highly trained street fighter primed to snuff out the failing city's criminal resurgence. But don't call her a hero yet. In a city desperate for a savior, Kate must overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham's symbol of hope

81

7.9

/24016/

79

/1970/

67

/184/

98

/133/

85

80

/36/

age 14+

Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan - in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, California.

75

7.1

/21965/

71

/1840/

76

/1144/

94

/43/

74

68

/8/

age 14+

Courtney Whitmore, a smart, athletic and above all else kind girl, discovers her step-father has a secret: he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. "Borrowing" the long-lost hero’s cosmic staff, she becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.

NEW

66

6.2

/11513/

66

/684/

76

/281/

100

/8/

42

49

/6/

age 14+

Before Sam and Dean, there was John and Mary. Told from the perspective of narrator Dean Winchester, this is the epic, untold love story of how John met Mary, and how they put it all on the line to not only save their love, but the entire world.

59

4.8

/18814/

64

/1229/

72

/477/

55

/13/

age 14+

Set in the fictional college town of Hilltowne, Charmed follows the lives of three sisters, Macy, Mel and Maggie Vera who, after the tragic death of their mother, discover they are three of the most powerful witches of all time.

65

7.3

/49874/

70

/2305/

72

/357/

47

/30/

73

56

/20/

age 14+

After her mother dies in a fire, Cassie Blake moves in with her grandmother in the small town of Chance Harbor, Washington. As she gets to know her high school classmates, strange and frightening things begin to happen. They are all descended from powerful witches, and they've been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle. What they don't yet know is that darker powers are at play and that Cassie's mother's death might not have been an accident.

74

7.5

/15952/

73

/688/

75

/92/

78

/34/

79

69

/20/

age 15+

16-year-old Lux was given up for adoption at birth but never adopted. When she is put back into the custody of her estranged-since-high-school birth parents, Cate and Baze, the three form an unlikely family.

71

66

6.9

/4377/

67

/195/

65

/43/

71

/7/

93

63

/7/

age 13+

Set in the late 1800s, this origin story follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes while on their journey out West, as she crosses paths with Hoyt Rawlins, a lovable rogue in search of purpose. Abby and Hoyt's journey takes them to Independence, Texas, a small town with a big future.

69

6.1

/28823/

64

/2859/

69

/920/

92

/70/

49

79

/27/

age 14+

Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.

65

7.0

/21564/

64

/917/

60

/122/

49

/35/

91

59

/29/

age 14+

Six months after deciding to pull herself together and get sober, Bridget witnesses a murder. Realizing her life is in danger and not trusting the FBI to protect her, she runs to her wealthy twin sister, Siobhan, in New York. Things start out well—with the two patching up a fractured relationship—when Siobhan suddenly goes missing. Bridget assumes her sister's identity, but soon learns that Siobhan's life is not as perfect as it looks and she is no safer than she was before.

68

6.4

/15055/

69

/913/

78

/437/

77

/25/

62

58

/13/

age 14+

After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer—he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.

67

6.8

/11837/

71

/814/

77

/294/

55

/12/

age 14+

Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery instead.

48

5.3

/8266/

58

/529/

68

/149/

27

/15/

44

41

/5/

age 14+

In the aftermath of Bruce Wayne's murder, his rebellious adopted son forges an unlikely alliance with the children of Batman's enemies when they are all framed for killing the Caped Crusader.

73

7.0

/29654/

72

/1219/

72

/228/

84

/48/

85

58

/23/

age 14+

Before she was a fashion icon, before her column in the New York Star, before Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw was an innocent 16-year-old girl living in suburban Connecticut.

62

7.1

/37968/

72

/2937/

69

/354/

44

/39/

67

50

/23/

age 14+

The story of several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with each other telepathically. Together they work to defeat the forces of evil.

74

68

6.3

/2948/

66

/236/

81

/273/

91

/22/

75

71

/8/

age 14+

A group of aspiring artists living in New York City try to make their dreams come true.

71

55

6.3

/1952/

70

/165/

76

/60/

76

/4/

age 14+

Follow the journeys of Simone Hicks, a tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills, and elite baseball player Damon Sims from Chicago, as they navigate life at the prestigious HBCU Bringston University.

NEW

53

49

6.0

/3706/

64

/222/

63

/49/

21

/19/

81

39

/10/

age 14+

The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions. The drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government/military secrets and leading to a season-long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers.

55

43

6.7

/3656/

65

/112/

56

/30/

42

/19/

45

/22/

age 14+

Johnny Miller was a typical 15-year-old until his father committed suicide. Now Johnny lives in Palm Springs with his mother and her new husband. On the outside, Palm Springs is a paradise - but as Johnny learns the secrets that lie just beneath the surface of this seemingly typical neighborhood, he and his family wonder how well they really know the people who live right next door.

74

7.7

/25866/

75

/1518/

70

/209/

80

/34/

70

75

/35/

age 14+

21 year-old slacker Sam Oliver learns that his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born, and now Sam has to repay the debt by becoming the Devil's bounty hunter, retrieving souls that have somehow escaped from Hell.

73

7.4

/14880/

72

/1228/

71

/252/

77

/26/

85

64

/21/

age 14+

Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank Sullivan, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. Separated by twenty years, father and daughter have reunited on a frequency only they can hear, but can they rewrite the story of their lives without risking everyone they love?

62

6.7

/11152/

65

/499/

75

/114/

65

/23/

53

51

/22/

age 15+

Pre-law student Marti Perkins' world is flipped upside down when she loses her scholarship, and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer University's legendary cheerleading team.

59

6.3

/9518/

62

/858/

63

/153/

47

/19/

68

56

/15/

age 14+

When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have assigned the task of preventing the impending Apocalypse.

53

47

6.1

/4524/

59

/179/

58

/30/

60

/30/

30