The CW Reveals Mid-Season Launch Dates; Pairs New DC Series ‘Naomi’ with ‘Superman & Lois’
The CW’s newest entry into its DC Comics Arrowverse is debuting with an impressive partner.
The CW released its mid-season slate of shows, with return dates for favorites like Superman & Lois and The Flash, as well as premiere dates for new shows like Naomi and All-American: Homecoming.
Naomi is the network’s latest show in the DC Comics superhero universe, which began in 2012 with Arrow and continued on with shows like The Flash, Supergirl and Black Lightning. Naomi stars Kaci Walfall as a “cool, confident, comic book–loving” teenager Naomi McDuffie as she unravels the origins of a supernatural event in her hometown of Port Oswego, Oregon.
DC’s FanDome event featured a first look at the show, Naomi running out of class in an attempt to capture Superman on film. The show is written and produced by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Ava DuVernay and Arrow‘s Jill Blankenship.
Created by Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell, Naomi first appeared in the DC Comics series of the same name in 2019 under the Wonder Comics imprint. Naomi is a teenage superhero born on an alternate version of Earth, with powers including flight, super-strength and energy manipulation. Believing she is a normal girl for most of her life, Naomi inevitably encounters Superman and discovers her parents are from another world. She goes on to join the Young Justice team.
Naomi will be premiere on Tuesday, January 11th, with Superman & Lois as its lead-in. Previous Tuesday night occupants Riverdale and The Flash will go on hiatus for a few weeks, returning in March on a new night, Wednesdays.
Mid-season will actually kick off in December, when Dynasty returns on Monday, December 20th. And another new show debuting at mid-season is All-American: Homecoming, a spinoff of the high-school sports drama All-American. Both shows can be seen beginning Monday, February 21st.
Friday, January 7th Penn & Teller: Fool Us returns at 8pm, followed by Nancy Drew‘s midseason return at 9p. That will be followed on Saturday, January 8 with a double broadcast of Whose Line is it Anyway? followed by two episodes of World’s Funniest Animals. And on Sunday, January 9, the network will air The 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards.
Other returning shows include Charmed, Walker and Legacies.
Here is a look at the full slate of return and premiere dates for the network.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 2021
8-9pm Dynasty (Season 5 Premiere)
9-10pm Dynasty (Original Episode)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7th, 2022
8-9pm Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Midseason Return)
9-10pm Nancy Drew (Midseason Return)
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8th, 2022
8-8:30pm Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Original Episode)
8:30-9:00pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?
9:00-9:30pm World’s Funniest Animals (Original Episode)
9:30-10:00pm World’s Funniest Animals
SUNDAY, JANUARY 9th, 2022
7-10pm The 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards
TUESDAY, JANUARY 11th, 2022
8-9pm Superman & Lois (Season 2 Premiere)
9-10pm Naomi (Series Premiere)
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12th, 2022
8:00-9:00pm DC’S Legends Of Tomorrow (Midseason Return)
9:00-10:00pm Batwoman (Midseason Return)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 16th, 2022
8-9pm Legends Of The Hidden Temple (Original Episode)
9-9:30pm Two Sentence Horror Stories (Season 3 Premiere)
9:30-10pm Two Sentence Horror Stories(Original Episode)
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2022
8-9pm Naomi (Series Premiere Encore)
9-10pm 4400 (Midseason Return)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27th, 2022
8-9pm Walker (Midseason Return)
9-10pm Legacies (Midseason Return)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 2022
8-9pm All-American (Midseason Return)
9-10pm All-American: Homecoming (Series Premiere)
SUNDAY, MARCH 6th, 2022
8-9pm Riverdale (New Night)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9th 2022
8-9pm The Flash (New Night)
9-10pm Kung Fu (Season 2 Premiere)
FRIDAY, MARCH 11th, 2022
8-9pm Charmed (Season 4 Premiere)
9-10pm Dynasty (Return with Original Episodes)