Luxe Gal attends her first CW Upfront, and lives to tell all about it!

The presentation started with a performance from  Icona Pop with “I Love It (I Don’t Care),” and a bow from Vampire Diaries‘ Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev (couldn’t have be easy after their breakup!).

The CW is the network of that gives us bad-ass hotties. This coming season brings us more, with high concept and supernatural-themed shows. Their online content at “CW Seed” fills the space with edgy comedy which, if all goes well, will graduate to prime time.

The CW plans to continue their groundbreaking use of multi-platform in the digital age. This season you will also be able to watch their programs on AppleTV, once again allowing audiences to watch when, where and on whatever platform they prefer.

The CW’s fall lineup includes a sexy spinoff of The Vampire Diaries called The Originals,  starring Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies and Claire Holt as the original vampire family.

New dramas include Reign and the rebooted The Tomorrow People. From executive producers Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec, it’s about young people from all over the world who possess special powers that make people fear and/or hate them (kinda like X-Men except everyone is young and sexy). The Tomorrow People is based on a 1970s British series of the same name — looks like telepathy, teleportation and telekinesis  is still hot 40 years later!

Reign is a historical soap with a cast of pouty-mouthed hotties in period costume. It focuses on the teen years of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her rise to power in the 16th century. Australian actress Adelaide Kane stars.

Old favorites will return in new time slots: Hart of Dixie and Beauty and the Beast to Mondays, while The Carrie Diaries shifts to Fridays in front of America’s Next Top Model.

Midseason look for The 100. Set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, a spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of “re-colonizing the planet.” Series stars include Henry Ian Cusick, Isaiah Washington, Eli Goree, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos and Paige Turco.

photo crdit: Photo: Jeff Staab, John Filo//The CW

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SEE. Star Trek fans were teased with the the following synopsis: “In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis…” Star Trek Into Darkness brings back the very scary Khan — as in “the wrath of Khan” — which means all kinds of drama, making us fear that one of our most beloved Star Trek characters may not survive. This latest ST incarnation is fun, and it’s great to watch Chris Pine play James Kirk with little references to the role’s originator William Shatner. The locked gaze, the verbal reparte with Bones and Spock … it’s all good as the sci-fi flick with characters many have grown up with takes us into old territory in a new way, with better special effects and updated characters. Spock in love with Uhura? Uhura speaking Klingon? Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto? What’s not to love? Maybe die-hard Trekkies  will be disappointed, but you know what? The only thing that would really make them happy is if Gene Roddenberry returned from the dead to write and direct 10 new episodes! Catch  Star Trek Into Darkness in 3D so you feel like you have a front row seat on the Enterprise!

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