The CW Sets Summer Schedule: Six New Series & Dates For Five Returning Shows

The CW has finalized its summer plans as it continues to push for more year-round programming. The network today revealed its 2019 post-TV season schedule including a half-dozen new series and dates for two returning dramas and three unscripted veterans. The 11 summer premieres is the most ever for the 13-year-old net.

The premiering series are British action drama Bulletproof, starring Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters; talent-variety showcase The Big Stage; comedy game show Hypnotize Me, hosted by Taye Diggs; the investigate docuseries Mysteries Decoded; space-based action-adventure Pandora; and extreme-sports docuseries Red Bull Peaking. Check out the full sked below, along with details of the new series, which dont have hard premiere dates yet.

Masters of Illusion

The rookies will join the sophomore runs of legal drama Burden of Truth starring Kristin Kreuk (June 2) and fantasy adventure The Outpost starring Jessica Green (July 11). Also getting dates are the unscripted summer stalwarts Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Season 6) and Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Season 7) — both set for June 17 — along with Season 8 of Masters of Illusion, which bows June 7).

The network noted that four of its midseason premieres — Jane the Virgin, iZombie, The 100 and In The Dark — will run well into summer.

Here is the CWs summer schedule, with new-series dates TBD:

SUNDAY, JUNE 2
8-9 p.m.: BURDEN OF TRUTH (Season 2 premiere)
9-10 p.m.: SUPERNATURAL (encore episode)

FRIDAY, JUNE 7
8-8:30 p.m.: MASTERS OF ILLUSION (Season 6 premiere)
8:30-9 p.m.: MASTERS OF ILLUSION (new episode)
9-9:30 p.m.: THE BIG STAGE (series premiere)
9:30-10 p.m.: THE BIG STAGE (new episode)

MONDAY, JUNE 17
8-9 p.m.: PENN & TELLER: FOOL US (Season 6 premiere)
9-9:30 p.m.: WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? (Cycle 7 premiere)
9:30-10 p.m.: WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? (encore episode)

THURSDAY, JULY 11
8-9 p.m.: iZOMBIE (new episode)
9-10 p.m.: THE OUTPOST (Season 2 premiere)

Here are descriptions of the CWs new summer series:

Bulletproof

Adrenalin-fueled and packed with compelling characters, Bulletproof follows two undercover cops, Bishop (Noel Clarke, Star Trek: Into Darkness) and Pike (Ashley Walters, Top Boy) as they chase down hardened criminals in Londons East End. Despite their differences, Bishop and Pike work brilliantly together even when the chemistry between them looks set to explode. Full of grit and sometimes gloss, Bulletproof is stylish and funny with entertaining, riveting criminal cases in each episode. Bulletproof is from Vertigo Films and Company Pictures, with executive producers Allan Niblo (Britannia, Monsters), Michele Buck (Endeavour, Midsomer Murders), Judy Counihan (No Mans Land, Fresh Meat), Nick Love (The Football Factory, The Sweeney), Noel Clarke, and Ashley Walters. Bulletproof, a Sky Original, was co-funded and distributed internationally by Sky Vision.

Hypnotize Me
A comedy game show, hosted by Taye Diggs. Based on the hit U.K. format (Youre Back in the Room), the show features physical comedy and unpredictable situations, as contestants work together in teams and are challenged to complete a variety of simple, everyday tasks, from frosting a cake to blowing up balloons…after being hypnotized. With big money at stake, these contestants need to work together as a team. However, their entranced states cause hysterical hurdles that not only sabotage their progress, but reveal aspects of their personalities neither they, their family nor their friends have ever before witnessed! The series also features award-winning hypnotist Keith Barry, who stars iRead More – Source