The CW Picks Up Swamp Thing, Three Other Scripted Shows

The CW is building out its schedule with the acquisition of four scripted series for broadcast and its free ad-supported streaming platforms, including Swamp Thing, based on the DC character.

Swamp Thing (one season) and Tell Me a Story (two seasons) will make their network television debuts on The CW and stream for the first time on The CW’s free, ad-supported digital platforms. Hailing from Canada and the U.K. respectively, Coroner (two seasons) and Dead Pixels (one season) will each be making their U.S. debuts on The CW and its digital platforms.

Swamp Thing is produced by Atomic Monster in association with Warner Bros. Television. It follows Dr. Abby Arcane (Crystal Reed; Gotham, Teen Wolf) as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but when a mysterious creature emerges from the murky marsh, she finds herself facing the nightmares of a supernatural world where no one is safe.

Tell Me a Story, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, takes the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern-day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves “The Three Little Pigs,” “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Hansel and Gretel” into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.

Coroner is a character-driven one-hour drama about Dr. Jenny Cooper (Serinda Swan; Ballers), a recently widowed, newly appointed coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural or sudden deaths in Toronto. Each death brings Jenny into a new arena in the city and sparks buzzworthy themes. The CBC original series is produced by Muse Entertainment, Back Alley Films and Cineflix Studios.

Created by Jon Brown (Succession, Veep), Dead Pixels follows Meg (Alexa Davies; Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again), Nicky (Will Merrick; Poldark) and Usman (Sargon Yelda; Strike) who are obsessed with the online fantasy game “Kingdom Scrolls.” The show is split equally between the characters’ tragicomic real lives and their computer-animated misadventures in “Kingdom Scrolls.” Dead Pixels is a Various Artists Limited production for Channel 4 that airs on E4 in the U.K. and is distributed by BBC Studios.