CW gets 'Crazy,' but not with fall schedule

CW, with ratings gains this season, is adding just one new show this fall, moving two others and leaving the rest of its schedule intact.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is the new companion for Jane the Virgin on Mondays, focusing on an unhappy lawyer (Rachel Bloom) who quits her job and moves to California in a desperate quest for love. The comedic drama, featuring musical interludes, was originally commissioned as a pilot for Showtime, and was "the perfect compliment to Jane," says CW chief Mark Pedowitz.

For midseason, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, featuring Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller (among others), playing characters from Arrow and The Flash, and Pedowitz says all three could air simultaneously. And Containment is a new drama about an Atlanta quarantined by a deadly epidemic. The 100 will also return, but Hart of Dixie won't. And The Vampire Diaries will be reunited with its spinoff, The Originals, on Thursdays.

CW ratings are up 12%, to an average audience of 2.2 million viewers, its biggest total in seven years, as its audience broadens to include more older viewers and men. More of the network's viewing is time-shifted or online than other networks.

CW's fall schedule (all times ET/PT; new shows in bold; new time slots in italics):

Monday: 8, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; 9, Jane the Virgin

Tuesday: 8, The Flash; 9, iZombie

Wednesday: 8, Arrow; 9, Supernatural

Thursday: 8, The Vampire Diaries; 9, The Originals

Friday: 8, Reign; 9, America's Next Top Model