The CW is looking ahead with its Fall 2024 TV lineup

During the summer, TV networks announce their lineup for their upcoming fall schedule, and various genres are represented across the airwaves. The CW has announced its Fall 2024 schedule, featuring returning favorites, final seasons, and newcomers.

The premieres will begin on Friday, August 30 when the second season of Inside the NFL on The CW premieres at 9 pm. Previously on both HBO and Showtime, the famed NFL football show covers highlights of the previous weeks’ games, analysis, commentary, and interviews with coaches and players. 

Pac-12 Football, the college athletics conference featuring teams in the Western United States, kicks off on the network with two games on Saturday, August 31 featuring Portland State at Washington State followed by Idaho State at Oregon State. 

Sunday, September 1 will feature the 4th season premiere of The Chosen.  “As previously reported, the fourth run of episodes,” of The Chosen, “the Jesus-centric” series will make its broadcast-TV debut. 

Friday, September 6 will focus on the 13th season premiere of Whose Line is it Anyway?, the short form improv comedy show, at 8pm followed by another episode at 8:30 pm. 

On Friday, September 20, the NASCAR XFinity Series races on to the CW with coverage of the race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The next Tuesday, October 1, will feature the network premiere of WWE NXT at 8 pm, the weekly professional wrestling program that features talent that compete under WWE’s NXT brand. The show previously aired on USA prior to its move to the CW.

Sullivan’s Crossing debuts its second season at 8 pm on Wednesday, October 2. The show follows, "neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan who finds herself in legal trouble and returns to her hometown in rural Nova Scotia to reconnect with her estranged father, Sully.” The series is an import from Canada.

Joan is a new series premiering on the CW on Wednesday, October 2 at 9 pm. Joan is "a 1980s-set drama in which Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner plays jewel thief Joan Hannington."

On Monday, October 7, two classic board games will get the series treatment with the series premieres of Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit at 8 pm and 9 pm respectively.

Thursday, October 17 will showcase the final season of the superhero series Superman & Lois with a 2-hour premiere at 8 pm. The series will end after its fourth season.

On Thursday, October 24th, a new series will premiere at 9 pm called The Librarians: The Next Chapter, a sequel to the series, The Librarians.

The Librarians was a series that focused on, "four ordinary people from around the world [who] are selected to work for the Library, an ancient order dedicated to solving supernatural mysteries and protecting the innocent from the secret magical world all around us."

Its sequel will continue these adventures, focusing on, "a time-traveling librarian from the past that unfortunately finds himself trapped in the present. Now he will be given a team of new librarians to clean up the mess he made, releasing magic across the continent."

Sullivan's Crossing will continue to air at 8 pm on Wednesday nights, followed by the 4th season premiere of Children Ruin Everything at 9 pm and another episode following it at 9:30 pm on Wednesday, November 13.

A Canadian import, "the half-hour comedy series follows Astrid and James as they struggle to hold onto their identities while raising their young children in the city."

Creator Kurt Smeaton explained that the show discussed his understanding that while parenting for some can be, "time-consuming and expensive and frustrating", he wanted to create a show that not only acknowledged that, but more importantly, "also showed the other side, which is having a family is worth it."

Shows that will premiere mid-season, which is usually in January, include the 7th season of All American, the sports drama following a high school football player's transition from playing in South Los Angeles to Beverly Hills, and the series premiere of the comedy Good Cop/Bad Cop, which focuses on detectives who are siblings solving cases in a small town where their dad is the police chief.

Other mid-season premieres are set for more shows, including Sherlock& Daughter, following the famed detective and his daughter who joins him in his adventures after her mother is mysteriously murdered, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, a magic competition series where contestants must perform tricks to "fool" the legendary magician duo, and Wild Cards, a police procedural comedy-drama that follows the two main characters' path to redemption on gaining back a badge and staying out of jail.

Other series with their fate to be determined, as explained by TV Line include, "Family Law (acquired), FBoy Island, Lovers & Liars, Masters of Illusion, Patti Stanger: The Matchmaker, Sight Unseen (co-pro renewed in Canada thus far), [and] Son of a Critch (acquired)."

Shows that are ending and will air their final seasons include the All American spin-off, the sports drama All American: Homecoming, with its final season premiering July 8, Superman & Lois ending in the fall, and Walker, the reboot of the classic 90s western drama Walker: Texas Ranger, which will end on June 27. With so many different genres of series set to air in the coming months on The CW, there looks to be a show for everyone.