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CW's Nation Implodes, Fox's Nightmares Continue

Thu., Oct. 18, 2007 7:04 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

The fall TV season is young, yet network execs, showrunners and Gordon Ramsay's underlings are already getting grayer.

Striving to avoid a sophomore slump (not that its freshman year was anything to brag about), the CW has pulled the plug on the YouTube-fueled Web clip show Online Nation, which aired Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

A network spokesperson said that repeats of the new dramedy Aliens in America will take over that spot starting this weekend.

And although Fox seemingly canceled the country-star-wannabe reality series Nashville last month after only two episodes, the broadcaster apparently hasn't specifically said it will never be on again (all that leftover footage and all), making Online Nation the first official casualty of the season.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, last week the CW made the Kristen Bell-narrated rich-kid exposé Gossip Girl the season's first full-season pickup. The prime-time soap based on the popular young-adult novels airs on Wednesdays after America's Next Top Model.

And according to an exclusive report from E! Online's Watch with Kristin blog, ABC has followed suit with the Grey's Anatomy spinoff Private Practice, which is more than holding its own on Wednesdays with an average of 13.4 million viewers a week.

Further good news went out to CBS' military drama The Unit and the new dweebs-meet-girl comedy The Big Bang Theory, which both got full-season orders, as well.

Meanwhile, Kitchen Nightmares will continue to keep Fox up at nights. Another 10-episode run of the reality series in which Ramsay profanely whips failing restaurants into shape has been ordered and will air sometime next year. The first cycle wraps up Nov. 21. Production has also kicked off on two back-to-back cycles of Ramsay's other British import Hell's Kitchen.

But while viewers will certainly have their fill of accented culinary crises, it's unclear how much exposure they'll be getting to undead detectives and kooky comedic heroines.

Fox has put the midseason drama New Amsterdam, starring Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as a cop who has literally seen it all (having been cursed with immortality 400 years ago), on indefinite hiatus although seven episodes are already in the can.

The News Corp.-owned network has also downsized its episode order from 13 to seven for the Parker Posey vehicle The Return of Jezebel James, although the half-hour multi-camera sitcom is still slated for an early 2008 premiere.

Actually getting a release date is Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which has marked for a Jan. 14. Instead of airing on Sundays, as Fox originally planned, the sci-fi series is will be a lead-in for 24 on Mondays.

Then, there are the shows that don't need to worry, either because they have pulled a network up by its bootstraps or because their creators have already capped the drama at six seasons.

Heroes and Lost are both headed to syndication next fall on G4, both major acquisitions for the video game-centric cable network. SciFi Channel has also inked a non-exclusive deal for all six seasons of Lost (the fourth of which premieres in February on ABC), and will air the Emmy-winning island mystery in four-episode blocks.