Riley Smith is returning to the CW with a lead role opposite Kennedy McMann in the network’s new drama series Nancy Drew, from CBS TV Studios and Fake Empire. Smith had been quietly cast as a series regular in the pilot in second position to his Fox drama series Proven Innocent. He became officially available when Fox…

The CW is making a lot of changes for next season, with only four of the 12 time slots on the fall schedule featuring the same occupants they did last fall. The fall 2019 lineup includes two intriguing DC superhero team-ups: a superheroine Sunday with Supergirl and Batwoman and The Flash and Arrow together for the…

EXCLUSIVE: When the first output deal between Netflix and the CW parents CBS and Warner Bros was announced in 2011, it was hailed as groundbreaking and, with its $1 billion windfall, a lifeline that might have helped save the then money-losing upstart network. The pact, re-upped by both sides in 2016 with some…

A day after the CW ordered its Nancy Drew pilot to series, comes word of a key casting change. Party of Five and Night Shift alum Scott Wolf will replace Freddie Prinze Jr. as Nancy’s dad, Carson Drew, in the drama series from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire and CBS TV Studios, Deadline has confirmed…

IP rules the CW’s new series orders. The network has picked up to series Batwoman, starring Ruby Rose; Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene, headlined by Lucy Hale; and Nancy Drew, toplined by Kennedy McMann. Batwoman, featuring a lesbian superhero, and Katy Keene come from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Prods. and Warner Bros. TV…

EXCLUSIVE: This is a neat casting — the CW Nancy Drew pilot is giving a nod to the TV history of the iconic character by recruiting Pamela Sue Martin. Martin, who will guest star in the pilot, played the brilliant teen sleuth in the first (and to date most successful) TV series adaptation of the Nancy Drew books, The H…

EXCLUSIVE: Alvina August (Siren) is set as a series regular opposite Kennedy McMann and Freddie Prinze Jr. in the CW's untitled Nancy Drew pilot inspired by the classic mysteries about the brilliant young sleuth. The project hails from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire and CBS TV…

Freddie Prinze Jr. (24) is set as a lead opposite Kennedy McMann in the CW's untitled Nancy Drew pilot inspired by the classic mysteries about the brilliant young sleuth. The project hails from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire and CBS TV Studios. Written/executive produced by Noga Landau, Schwartz and…

EXCLUSIVE: Maddison Jaizani (Versailles) and Alex Saxon (The Fix) are set as series regulars opposite Kennedy McMann and Tunji Kasim in the CW's untitled Nancy Drew pilot inspired by the classic mysteries about the brilliant young sleuth, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire and CBS TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Young British actor Tunji Kasim (Nearly Famous) is set as the male lead opposite Kennedy McMann in the CW’s untitled Nancy Drew pilot inspired by the classic mysteries about the brilliant young sleuth, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire and CBS TV Studios. Written/executive produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: Newcomer Kennedy McMann has landed the title role in the CW’s untitled Nancy Drew drama pilot, inspired by the classic mysteries about the brilliant young sleuth. Leah Lewis (The CW’s Charmed) will co-star in  the pilot, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire and CBS TV Studios, which…

As usual, the CW made the bulk of its pilot pickups in one fell swoop, and the network is betting heavily on IP this year. It greenlighted four pilots tonight — all based on well known titles — two spinoffs of existing CW series, Riverdale and Jane the Virgin, a Nancy Drew drama and The Lost Boys reboot. The join the…