Tyra Banks’ Top Model to Kick Off CW Schedule

BURBANK, July 18: The merged UPN/WB network The CW launches
on September 20 with a two-hour premiere of the seventh season of Tyra Banks’
reality show America’s Next Top Model.

World Wrestling Entertainment’s Friday Night Smackdown makes its CW debut on Friday, September 22 at 8 p.m.
The following Monday, September 25, the family drama 7th Heaven is back for its 11th season, leading into the series
premiere of Runaway, from
executive producer Darren Star about a normal middle-class American family on
the run.

On Tuesday, September 26 at 8 p.m., the Gilmore Girls kick off their seventh season, and on Wednesday,
September 27, a new episode of Top Model leads into the premiere of the fourth season of One Tree Hill. September 28 marks the return of Smallville, followed by Supernatural.

The CW's Sunday Night Comedy Block launches October 1 with Chris
Rock's Everybody Hates Chris at 7 p.m.,
followed by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's All Of Us and then Girlfriends and its spin-off, The Game.

The critically acclaimed Veronica Mars returns on October 3 for its third season.