The CW keeps Smallville, CBS passes on Ultra

The CW, the sum of the WB and UPN, announced their schedule for next year, with Supernatural, Smallville, Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls making the cut. Not making the cut were Everwood and Mercy Reef, the Smallville spin-off featuring Aquaman.

Reuters reports: The CW network will look like the sum of its parts when the successor of the soon-to-be-defunct UPN and WB launches in the fall with a mix of holdovers and just two new offerings.

UPN's "Veronica Mars" and the WB's "One Tree Hill" made the cut at the CW, but the WB's family drama "Everwood" did not.

CW's pickups, in addition to new drama "Runaway" and "Girlfriends" spinoff "The Game," include the soap "Palm Springs," which was given a midseason order Tuesday.

Also making the cut just a week after its teary-eyed final episode is 7th Heaven, the long-running family drama that simply refuses to die. The CW is talking to the cast about returning for another season.

CBS also announced their fall schedule, which saw little change from the previous season:

CBS, bringing six freshman shows back for second seasons, will add just one new comedy and three dramas to a fall schedule that is far more stable than those of major competitors.

The network, which presents the fall lineup to advertisers today, will finish its fourth consecutive season as No. 1 among total viewers, thanks to a lineup long on procedural crime dramas, including three versions of CSI.

While they are jumping into the "Lost" genre with a show called Jericho about a town that suffers a nuclear mushroom, the rumors that they would pick up the comic book adaptation Ultra did not pan out.