The CW, so pleased with last year’s development season, is introducing only one new series for fall. It’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and originally was developed for Showtime…
Last year, the CW’s two new fall shows not only survived, but were good. Both came from other sources – The Flash as a DC Comics spinoff from Arrow, and Jane the Virgin from a Venezuelan telenovela.
That’s a fall development record of 100 percent – take that, every other network! And this fall, while saving other changes and new series for 2016, it’s presenting only one new show. And if that series is renewed a year from now, CW will be able to claim a 100 percent success rate for new fall TV shows in two consecutive seasons. I’m pretty sure that has never ever ever happened before.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend stars, and is executive produced by, Rachel Bloom (pictured), and is about a romantically unlucky, dissatisfied, or upgrading single woman who decides to move from New York to California – specifically, to West Covina, which isn’t exactly Beverly Hills. But it is exactly the point, comedy-wise, in placing Bloom’s Rebecca Bunch in new, uncharted, and less than ideal waters.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is scheduled for Mondays at 8 p.m. ET, as the lead-in to last year’s successful romantic comedy hit, Jane the Virgin.