Tom Welling (Smallville's Clark Kent) is the producer of a pilot commissioned by The CW for a possible slot on next fall's schedule. Welling's show is called Hellcats and is a comedy-drama set in the world of competitive cheerleading. Kevin Murphy (who has written for such series as Desperate Housewives and The CW's cult favorite Reaper) wrote the pilot and will co-executive produce with Welling.

The CW also continues to mine ideas for new series from the world of literature (see such success stories as Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries). That's the case with Tara Bray Smith's novel Betwixt which may be making a leap from bookshelves to your flat screen this fall. This pilot is a story about good and evil in which urban changelings protect humans from bad stuff! Sounds like it would slot in really well with Supernatural and the aforementioned Vampire Diaries, no?

The CW has now committed to producing five pilots so far, including Hayden Panettiere's HMS, as well as last week's announcement of Nikita and Amy Sherman-Palladino's unnamed Wyoming-set family drama.

The new season is only a couple of months old, but The CW is already planning for next year.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has ordered a pilot for a possible series called HMS.

HMS stands for Harvard Medical School and is an hour-long ensemble drama about the lives of med school students (think Grey's Anatomy -- only younger. This is The CW, of course.).

HMS will be executive produced by Heroes star Hayden Panettiere and Amy Holden Jones (the writer of Julia Roberts' 1988 breakthrough film, Mystic Pizza). This will be Panettiere's first foray behind the camera.

No cast has been announced yet, but rest assured, The CW will NOT stop until every good looking young actor and actress in New York and Hollywood have their own show!

At least, I might finally learn how to spell Panettiere without having to look it up everytime. One n, two t's, one r. GOT it!