The CW network announced that it was adding five new shows to its primetime lineup in the fall including Arrow, an adaptation of the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow, and Beauty and the Beast, a reboot of the 1980s series starring Kristin Kreuk in the Linda Hamilton role.

Arrow (see "Green Arrow on CW"), which is produced by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen (see "Green Arrow Cast"), Katie Cassidy (Dinah Lance/Black Canary, see "TV's Green Arrow Finds His Black Canary"), and Willa Holland (Thea Queen).  Now that the series has made the schedule its next hurdle will be scoring high enough ratings to survive the first cut of new series in Q4.

The CW network is hoping Arrow can come close to the success of Smallville, the long-running DC Comics-based series, which featured Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang.  Now Kreuk is starring in another CW series, a reboot of the fantasy-inspired Beauty and the Beast show from the late 1980s that starred Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman.