The CW fall schedule

Today, the CW announced its primetime schedule for 2008-2009. The highlights are two new dramas --"90210" and "Surviving the Filthy Rich" -- and the new reality series "Stylista," in which eleven fashionistas compete for a job at Elle. (Nina Garcia's old job? Probably not.) Also, "Reaper" is coming back midseason, and "Aliens in America" is gone.

"90210" sounds a little darker, a little more self-aware, and maybe even a little deeper than the original, considering that the wonderful Tristan Wilds from "The Wire" is one of the stars. He plays the adopted son of a Kansas family that moves to Beverly Hills, where Dad is set to be principal of the way-more-sophisticated-than-Kansas high school. They meet a jock, a spoiled rich girl, a bad girl, and an eager-beaver student reporter, and a guidance counselor named Kelly Taylor who is once again played by Jennie Garth.

"Surviving the Filthy Rich" sounds a bit like "Dirty Sexy Money" for the teenaged set: a young aspiring journalist (which seems, in TV and movie terms, to be shorthand for "idealistic and naive") takes a job as a tutor to two filthy-rich, wild and rebellious teen girls in fabulous Palm Beach.

And the schedule (with new series in bold) is.....

MONDAY
8:00 p.m. "Gossip Girl"
9:00 p.m. "One Tree Hill"

TUESDAY
8:00 p.m. "90210"
9:00 p.m. "Surviving the Filthy Rich"

WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m. "America's Next Top Model"
9:00 p.m. "Stylista"

THURSDAY
8:00 p.m. "Smallville"
9:00 p.m. "Supernatural"

FRIDAY
8:00 p.m. "Everybody Hates Chris"
8:30 p.m. "The Game"
9:00 p.m. "America's Next Top Model" (Encore Presentation)

SUNDAY

Outsourced! Two adult-skewing comedies and two dramas from independent producers Media Rights Capital. More on that to come...