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On the CW, the Eighth Ring of 'Heaven'

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But that doesn't matter because "Veronica Mars" and "Gilmore Girls" are totally compatible because in both shows the hot young chick is dating a guy named Logan.

Here's more:

The WB's highly hyped new series "Aquaman" is still in contention for midseason. And the WB's "Reba" is still "a possibility" for the CW lineup, Ostroff said, for "several reasons" that she declined to discuss. There actually may be about 20 million reasons; that's reportedly what it was going to cost the CW to kill the show because the producers had already sealed a deal with the WB to bring back the show when the brain trust at Time Warner negotiated with CBS Corp. to kill its WB and merge the assets with CBS's UPN network.

The WB's teen-angst Superman drama "Smallville" will be followed by the WB's teen-angst paranormal drama "Supernatural" on Thursday nights. "Smallville" star Tom Welling, looking like he spent hours in front of the mirror, came onstage with the two guy leads from "Supernatural" to entertain the several hundred ad execs with his clever banter about how the "Supernatural" guys always are also behind him on the golf course. Okay, that one wasn't cynical; that was just snark.

Critical darling "Everybody Hates Chris" has been sent to the CW's worst time slot -- Sundays at 7 p.m., along with what remains of UPN's "urban" comedies, which is to say African American casts.

As well, all of UPN's surviving black-cast sitcoms that aired Monday night are being shipped off to Sunday, where they will face stiff competition from NBC's NFL football, ABC's "America's Funniest Home Videos," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "Desperate Housewives," and CBS's "60 Minutes," "Amazing Race" and "Cold Case."

We're not going to attempt cynicism about this transfer of "Chris," which is exec-produced by -- and loosely based on the childhood of -- Chris Rock, as well as "All of Us," "Girlfriends" and new black-cast sitcom "The Game" because Rock took the stage and did a much better job than we ever could.

Chris on the new CW:

They have a new slogan -- The New CW: We're not [horseradish].

Chris is now going to be played by a white girl.

See more white people on CW than ever before. . . . Sometimes they'll just walk through and wave!

I had another kid picked out to play Chris, but [CBS CEO] Les Moonves said, "'I know how to pick black kids ."


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