Complete Coverage: Upfronts 2012
The CW has made its pilot pick-ups, on Friday ordering five
dramas to series -- The Carrie Diaries, Beauty and the Beast, Cult,
First Cut and Arrow.
The Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries
stars AnnaSophia Robb as a young Carrie Bradshaw coming of age in 1984
Manhattan. The series is from Fake Empire (Gossip Girl) in association
with Warner Bros. Television.
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Medical drama First Cut, from CBS Television Studios
and Warner Bros., stars Mamie Gummer as a recently-graduated medical
student who discovers life at the hospital is no different than high school.
Cult is about a journalist who starts investigating
the dark underworld of a hit TV show after his brother goes missing. Arrow,
based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, stars Stephen Amell as a
vigilante superhero with the secret identity of a billionaire industrialist,
Oliver Queen.
The net's Beauty and the Beast adaptation is loosely
based on the 1980s CBS series about the relationship between a handsome doctor
who becomes a beast when enraged (Jay Ryan) and a female homicide detective
(Kristin Kreuk). Beauty and the Beast is
from CBS Studios.
The new series joined previously announcedrenewals for The Vampire Diaries, 90210 and Supernatural
for the 2012-13 season.
