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!

If you watched last night's series premiere of The Vampire Diaries, then you were a part of history. The Vampire Diaries was watched by a fang-tastic 4.84 million viewers in the U.S., making it the most watched series premiere in the history of The CW Television Network.

If you missed last night's series premiere or want to catch it again, you have two more opportunities.

WPIX will repeat the series opener tomorrow -- Saturday at 3pm and again on Sunday at 8pm (coincidentally, right before the season finale of HBO's True Blood). Why not make it a two-fer? Otherwise, stick around for an encore presentation of the Melrose Place premiere.

The CW has released five clips from the September 14th season premiere of Gossip Girl. Click the link below to check them out!

Ever wonder what it would be like to walk in the Manolos of Serena van der Wooden or Blair Waldorf? If you're a guy...perhaps not (but who am I to judge?).

On Location Tours, a company specializing in TV and movie based tourism offers a unique opportunity to experience life as one of your favorite Upper East Siders on its 3-1/2 hour Gossip Girl Tour. The luxury coach tour takes in more than 40 locations in Manhattan famous for their connections to Gossip Girl and costs $40 ($38 + $2 ticket fee). The tours take place year round on Fridays and Sundays at noon and depart from a midtown location. Advance purchase is required as these tours apparently sell out quickly!

Tyra Banks is teasing her fans to promote the season premiere of her daily talk show which is moving to The CW this fall. As previously reported, Tyra is going weaveless and plans to show the world her real hair -- something not seen in public since, ummmm....forever (?). Tyra recently previewed her new look in a recent Twitter post, but you'll have to tune into the show for the big reveal because the pic that she posted blurs out the "good stuff."

On her Twitter page, Tyra tweeted a message to her fans with the blurred pic:

Here's me rockin my REAL hair, had 2 blur it so its still a surprise on Sept 8! Who else is sportin their real hair that day?

Tyra moves to The CW on Monday, September 7th with back-to-back shows airing from 3-5pm (4-5pm are originals). Tyra will "expose herself " on September 8th. :)

After a couple of days shooting in and around Gramercy Park, my spies report that Gossip Girl will be filming today in the vicinity of 9th Ave. between 15th and 16th Streets. If you're in the area, go check it out. From what I hear, tomorrow they will be back in studio filming at Silvercup in Long Island City - so today might be your last/best chance this week to catch a glimpse of the action! Of course there's always next week!

If you enjoy the angst and drama on Gossip Girl, then perhaps you'll find it refreshing to take a look at the unintentional comedy generated on the Gossip Girl set in this season 2 blooper and gag reel!

Summer reruns are almost over. There are only 20 days to go before the CW launches its new season of returning favorites and new series. Wanna get up to speed and take an extended peek at some of our new programs? Here's your chance:

When the Tyra Banks Show jumps to The CW in September, Tyra will be exposing a part of herself that hasn't been seen in quite some time. Say hello to Tyra Banks au naturel. Gone is the weave. Yes, the hair that has rocked the catwalks and the judging panel at America's Next Top Model will be gone.

Tyra recently took to her Twitter account and revealed her plans:

"Guess What! I'm rockin' my REAL hair on my talk show September 8th. No fake hair at all! Will be the hair coming out of my scalp! 4 all 2 C!" She added, "no ponytails, no ballet bun head. hair will be out and free!"

This was followed by an official press release where Tyra announced:

"This season on The Tyra Show we're taking it to the next level and getting more real than ever before by encouraging women everywhere to own and rock what they've got and be proud!"

"For the season 5 premiere, I will be doing just that - no fake hair, I'm rocking my REAL hair. This will all be going down on September 8, 2009, which we're declaring National Real Hair Day! We welcome everyone to go natural with me!"

Keeping with the theme of encouraging women to be proud of what they've got, the new cycle of America's Next Top Model, will feature a roster of contestants who are all 5' 7" or shorter, well below the industry standard.

The Tyra Banks Show moves to The CW on September 7th. America's Next Top Model returns with a 2-hour premiere beginning at 8pm on, Wednesday, September 9th.

If you can stand the heat, today's a nice day to hang out in the park. Better yet, if you're in Brooklyn, go to the Botanical Gardens (Prospect Park). Gossip Girl is filming in and around the Gardens today.

The Beautiful Life : TBL is on the Upper West Side today filming on Columbus Ave around 104th St.

Below: Cast of The Beautiful Life: TBL

Gossip Girl producers are currently casting Gabriela Adams, Vanessa's mother. She is described as a good-looking, outgoing, charming African-American woman in her early 40's.

Chris Riggi will play Scott, the son that a young Lily gave up without telling Rufus (and half-brother to Dan, Jenny, Serena and Eric). Lily and Rufus will be reunited with Scott in episode 5 of the new season, though the younger siblings will meet him in an earlier episode. Scott will appear during the first 5 episodes of the season and likely recur after that.

Speaking of episode 5 (scheduled to air on October 12th), alternative rock group Sonic Youth will appear and perform.

For the fashionistas out there, look for designers Tory Burch and Georgina Chapman to make cameos in episode 4 of the new season.

These women are all in the running to be America's Next Top Model this fall:

Interesting news from the set of 90210. The show has cast Zachary Ray Sherman as Jasper Herman, the nephew of the guy that Annie hit with her car in May's cliffhanger season finale. What is this guy after? So far, we know that he will befriend Annie and worm his way into her life and inner circle, but what is his agenda...and is it sinister?

"I have a bad feeling in my gut, and I think he's going to take Annie for a little bit of a spin," Shenae Grimes revealed to E! TV. "She thinks she finds love and that may screw her up a little more," she said.

"My gut instinct is that he may [know about her role in the car accident], but Annie hasn't told anybody. It's definitely a secret right now," Grimes added.

Want a peek at the new season of 90210? Check out the hot new tongue-in-cheek, double-entendre laced promo below.

Take a look behind the scenes at The CW's Melrose Place in these NEW videos by click the link below!

To whet your appetite for the fall, we've got some teasers for the new season of Gossip Girl! Check out the videos by clicking the link below!

Hey Upper East-Siders. Gossip Girl, winner of the 2009 Teen Choice Award for TV Show Drama is filming today on 84th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues from 10am to 9pm today!

Additionally it looks like The Beautiful Life: TBL will take to the streets again. Signs have been posted on Canal at Wooster Street, as well as Canal at Hudson Street.

By the way...Gossip Girl racked up some more big wins last night at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards!

If you're in the East Village today, watch out for cameras and some stars of The Beautiful Life: TBL which is filming on E. 10th St. between 2nd & 3rd Ave., on 2nd Ave. between E. 9th & E. 11th St. and on E. 9th St. between 1st and 3rd Ave.

Tyra Banks is shooting new episodes of her daytime talk show which will be moving to The CW this fall! Tickets are currently available for tapings of The Tyra Banks Show on Tuesday, September 15th and Wednesday, September 16th. Tyra Banks tapes her show at:

Chelsea Studios
221 West 26th Street
New York City, NY 10001
(between 7th and 8th Ave.)

To apply for tickets, please click here for September 15th or here for the September 16th taping.

You must be at least 18 years of age to attend a taping.

Click here for arrival information and here for answers to frequently asked questions about attending a Tyra Banks Show taping.

The Tyra Banks Show moves to The CW, weekdays from 3-5pm beginning Monday, September 7th!

Check out these sneak peeks from the new season of Gossip Girl in the link below! The cast dishes the dirt and tells us what's in store for our favorite Upper East Siders.

In other Gossip Girl news...

Michael Ausiello reports that America's Next Top Model's Tyra Banks will guest star in Gossip Girl's 4th episode of the new season (tentatively scheduled to air on Monday, October 5th). In her first acting gig since an appearance on NBC's American Dreams in 2004, the fierce one will play Ursula Nyquist, an actress who proves to be quite the handful for new publicist Serena when she is assigned to keep tabs on the diva at a movie premiere.

Gossip Girl is filming TODAY in SoHo near Thompson and Prince Streets!

The Beautiful Life: TBL, Ashton Kutcher's new CW prime time drama starring Mischa Barton (The O.C.), Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) and supermodel Elle MacPherson, among others will be filming today in Astoria, Queens on 36th St. and 35th Ave.

On Thursday and Friday, August 6th and 7th, The Beautiful Life: TBL is scheduled to shoot scenes on the Lower East Side -- on Ludlow St. between E. Houston St. & Delancey St. -- next to Katz's Deli (205 E Houston St).

The Beautiful Life: TBL premieres Wednesday, September 16th at 9pm -- right after America's Next Top Model.

Check out a preview below!

With a little more than a month before its premiere, The CW is pulling out all the stops in a provocative new ad campaign designed to draw old and new fans to L.A.'s hottest address, Melrose Place. The four new steamy print ads featuring cast members of the Melrose re-boot are subtitled with such eye-catching lines as Tuesday's The New Humpday, Tuesdays Are A Bitch and Menage A Tues. The ads feature such actors as Thomas Calabro (Michael Mancini), Laura Leighton (Sydney Andrews), Ashlee Simpson-Wentz (Violet Foster) and Katie Cassidy (Ella Simms) in alluring poses in and around the iconic Melrose Place apartment complex. Take a look at one of the ads below, as well as a cool new promo featuring a couple of familar Melrose residents and one new one I'm sure you'll grow to love!

Kevin Williamson, writer and executive producer of The Vampire Diaries was on hand at Comic-Con over the weekend to talk about the new CW series and explain how he got involved with the project, why he initially turned it down and what changed his mind to get him to hop on board.

Initially, Williamson had reservations about jumping into the project and actually turned it down several times before finally agreeing to helm the series.

Supernatural held its panel at Comic-Con over the weekend. Here are some tidbits about the new season to keep you bedeviled until the first episode is unveiled on September 10th:

Castiel has an agenda that will be revealed by the end of the second episode of the new season.

Dean will travel to the future and see the Apocalypse.

God will be a character in the upcoming season.

There will be a lot of fallout between Sam & Dean following the events of last season.

Over the weekend, the Smallville panel convened at Comic-Con in San Diego. Here's some scoop about the new season:

Lois (Erica Durance) will be seen in 18 of Smallville's 22 episodes. There will be a love triangle between Clark, Lois and the Red-Blue Blur.

After developments in the season finale, Chloe and Clark's friendship will be tested. They have a little bit of a rocky start," says executive producer Kelly Souders.

To deal with her role in Jimmy's death, Chloe will channel her energies toward Watchtower and saving the world. "We'll see [Chloe] experimenting with some different paths. We're definitely going to see her trying new things this year. Always with the intent to save the world, but maybe not necessarily the way that Clark Kent has done," says Allison Mack.

Oliver Queen/Green Arrow will hit appear in several episodes and will be mired in a downward spiral that will eventually take him to rock-bottom. Oliver will be jealous of Clark's powers and his burgeoning relationship with Lois.

When we meet Zod, he is not yet a General. He is still a Major and unaware of the destruction of Krypton and Clark's existence.

Producers have an idea for a series finale, but will scrap it if Smallville goes to a tenth season.

Lex Luthor is NOT dead. Will Michael Rosenbaum reprise the character this season? Stay tuned.

This weekend, three CW programs will be featured at Comic-Con, the annual San Diego fanfest showcasing the best in sci-fi, fantasy and horror on TV and in film.

The Vampire Diaries will hold its panel on Saturday. Following a screening of the series pilot, stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder ( Lost), as well as executive producer/writer Kevin Williamson (Dawson's Creek) and others will be on hand to offer scoop on one of the most buzzed about new programs of the fall during a Q&A session.

Smallville's Sunday session will include stars Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan), Cassidy Freeman (Tess Mercer), Justin Hartley (Oliver Queen/Green Arrow) and Callum Blue (General Zod). After clips from the new season are screened, the stars of Smallville will provide some answers to the questions you have been waiting all summer for!

Supernatural will also hold its panel on Sunday. On hand will be stars Misha Collins (Castiel) and Jim Beaver (Bobby Singer), as well as creator/executive producer Eric Kripke and others. Lucky fans in attendance will get the first peek at footage from the September premiere episode, but we'll get the scoop and anything else for you so you won't feel left out!

Gossip Girl is filming in NoLita and SoHo. Traffic signs have been posted on Mulberry Street between Houston St and Prince St, on Houston between The Bowery and Elizabeth Street, and on Lafayette by Prince and Houston Streets.

...Actress Brooke Burns is the latest actress to join the cast of Melrose Place. Burns will appear in several episodes as Vanessa, Dr. Michael Mancini's wife and the mother of his youngest son.

Brooke Burns appeared on the WB series Pepper Dennis with Rebecca Romijn. Burns has also appeared on such prime time programs as North Shore and Miss Guided. She hosted NBC's game show Dog Eat Dog, but is perhaps best known for appearing in 46 episodes of Baywatch as Jessie Owens.

The CW has pushed back production of The Beautiful Life: TBL, starring Mischa Barton by a week.

The program had been set to begin shooting scenes for the new series on Wednesday. Production will now commence on July 31st. The delay is not expected to affect the premiere date of Ashton Kutcher's new prime time soap, which is still set to debut on September 16th following America's Next Top Model.

Officials say that the postponement is related to a delay in the completion of new sets and not star Mischa Barton's recent psychiatric hospitalization.
Barton continues to be holed up at Cedars-Sinai Medical center in Los Angeles under Section 5150 of the California Welfare & Institutions Code, while doctors continue to keep her under involuntary psychiatric evaluation.

According to The New York Post, Barton was hospitalized after friends called the police because they thought she might kill herself following a 3-day coke binge. She's running out of money and can't find love, so now she is looking for a good time to escape her misery," a source told the Post. "She is on a downward spiral." "She is a mess. She is a suicidal, uninsurable mess."

In The Beautiful Life: TBL, the former "O.C." actress stars as a high fashion model trying to stay at the top of her game, while newer, younger talent emerge on the catwalks of New York City.

From time to time I'll be checking in on some of your favorite ex-CW programs to catch you up on what the stars of those programs have been up to since departing the friendly confines of the CW family.

First up: Gilmore Girls

Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore) made her Broadway debut in March as Miss Adelaide in the Tony nominated revival of Guys & Dolls. Guys & Dolls played 28 previews and 113 performances before closing on June 14, 2009. Additionally, Graham taped a sitcom pilot for ABC called The Bridget Show where she starred as a Dr. Phil-type talk show host who doesn't follow her own advice. The busted pilot was not picked up for the fall.

Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore) appeared as Dr. Julia Wise in the series finale of ER on NBC. Last summer, Bledel appeared on the big screen in the sequel to Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants with Gossip Girl's Blake Lively. On August 21st, Bledel's fans can see her in her new film, Post Grad, a coming-of-age comedy where she plays Ryden Malby, a recent college graduate forced to move back home to live with her eccentric family while she juggles work and relationships in a post-grad world. Check out the trailer for Post Grad below.

Scott Patterson (Luke Danes) did not leave The CW for long after Gilmore Girls was canceled. The following fall, he played Gary Tolchuk in The CW's critically acclaimed, but criminally unwatched sitcom Aliens In America. In AIM, Patterson played the patriarch of a small-town midwest family who took in a Pakistani Muslim exchange student played by Adhir Kalyan (now seen as David Spade's put-upon assistant Timmy on CBS' Rules Of Engagement). Patterson also appeared in Saw V and is in pre-production on two movies, Liberty and The Rogue.

Wanna know what's gonna happen on your favorite CW shows this fall? Cast your eyes in a southerly direction and read on...

I don't know what it is, but more CW stars celebrate their birthday in July than during any other month. In fact, almost every CW show is represented by at least one July birthday boy or girl.

The romance between Lois and Clark will take front and center in a major storyline to take place when Smallville returns for season 9 this fall.

Serena van der Woodsen's father will finally make an appearance this season on
Gossip Girl. No casting yet, but we'll have it here as soon as an announcement is made.

According to 90210's AnnaLynne McCord, Annie will not be reconciling with Naomi anytime soon. "Never. Not going to happen. I'm sorry. I wish," says McCord.

On Supernatural, Castiel will be featured prominently in a storyline that dovetails with the major storyline for the new season.

I'm a day late and a Canadian dollar short (roughly 87 cents for those of you playing at home), but I'd like to wish all of our CW stars hailing from the Great White North a belated Happy Canada Day. Hey, I'm from Brooklyn...what do I know about these things? Anyway, there sure are a bunch of 'em. Bet you didn't know...

Kim Kardashian will be a guest judge in an episode of America's Next Top Model when it returns for its thirteenth cycle this fall. Kim is a big fan of Top Model and Tyra Banks. "Wow, this cycle is pretty amazing! It's definitely my favorite so far. It was such an honor to be a guest judge. I have watched this show for years and am such a huge Tyra Banks fan! She is such a smart business woman and such a role model, says Kardashian."

Jennie Garth is not signed for next season's 90210, but will in all likelihood be invited back.

Law & Order's Elisabeth Rohm will guest star as a socialite in an at least one episode of 90210 next season. Her character will be a source of irritation for AnnaLynne McCord's Naomi.

Gossip Girl's Serena van der Woodsen will not be heading to Brown this fall after all. Blake Lively tells TV Guide's Matt Mitovich that she will have her hands full chasing after her father. "She's thrown for this huge loop," says Lively. "There are a lot of things she's going to find out about her mother and about her background."

The CW's fall pilot Body Politic was not picked up by the network, but there has been a groundswell of support on the net from people who have seen it and want The CW to reverse its decision and get it on the air as a mid-season replacement. You can count me among them. Clips that I have seen of Body Politic look promising.

Body Politic tells the story of Washington, D.C. politics through the eyes of up-and-coming staffers. According to sources on the web, the pilot which features Jason Dohring (Veronica Mars), Gabrielle Union (Life), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Jay Hernandez (Six Degrees) and Tim Matheson (The West Wing), among others is not completely dead, but is a long shot to be revived. A Gossip Girl spinoff is still held in higher regard and of the two options would likely make the cut before Body Politic.

You can check out clips of the pilot here and judge for yourself.

Tired of summer reruns? Yeah...so am I. There's good news on the horizon though. The CW has just announced the fall premiere dates for new and returning favorites. Here they are:

Tuesday, September 8

8pm 90210
9pm Melrose Place

Wednesday, September 9

8pm America's Next Top Model (2-Hour Season Premiere)

Thursday, September 10

8pm The Vampire Diaries
9pm Supernatural

Monday, September 14

8pm One Tree Hill (New Time)
9pm Gossip Girl (New Time)

Wednesday, September 16

8pm America's Next Top Model (Regular Time Period)
9pm The Beautiful Life: TBL

Friday, September 25

8pm Smallville
9pm America's Next Top Model (Encore Episodes)

When Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill return with all new episodes on Monday, September 14th the two programs will switch time periods. This fall, all-new episodes of Gossip Girl will air on Mondays at 9pm following all-new episodes of One Tree Hill which moves up an hour to 8pm. Got that? Cool! Now, text all your friends so they'll know too!!

Gossip Girl will go head-to-head with 90210 in the battle for Choice TV Drama at this year's Teen Choice Awards broadcast by the Fox Television Network this summer. Other nominees in this category are Grey's Anatomy, House and The Secret Life Of The American Teenager.

Gossip Girl received 10 nominations including Choice TV Actor: Drama ( Penn Badgley and Chace Crawford), Choice TV Actress: Drama ( Blake Lively and Leighton Meester), Choice Male Hottie (Chace Crawford), Choice Female Hottie (Blake Lively) and Choice TV: Villain ( Ed Westwick). Gossip Girl's 10 nominations tied High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Miley Cyrus for second most nominations overall and most for any TV series.

90210's Dustin Milligan and Annalynn McCord also received nods in the Choice TV Actor and Actress categories, while Annalynn McCord and Tristan Wilds were both nominated as Breakout Stars. 90210 will fight it out with Fringe, Glee, JONAS and The Secret Life Of The American Teenager for Choice TV: Breakout Show.

Rob Estes and Lori Laughlin (90210) were nominated in the Choice TV: Parental Unit category along with Matthew Settle (Dan and Jenny's Dad on Gossip Girl).

Other CW shows receiving nominations were Smallville (Choice TV Actor: Action Adventure - Tom Welling, Choice TV Actress: Action Adventure - Kristin Kreuk, Choice TV: Sidekick - Allison Mack and Choice TV: Villain - Michael Rosenbaum) and America's Next Top Model (Choice TV: Reality Competition, Choice TV: Personality - Tyra Banks and Choice TV: Female Reality/Variety Star - Teyona Anderson).

OK... they ain't the Emmy's, but who wants to watch a stuffy awards show anyway?

Principal photography for season 5 of Supernatural begins July 2nd in British Columbia. E! Online caught up with Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) at a recent Hollywood event and got the scoop on the new season:

Jensen tells us that he imagines the boys have a crucial, but not necessarily pivotal, role to play in the war between heaven and hell. (Think of Jim Beaver's Bobby and the Winchesters more as lieutenants and corporals than generals or field marshals.). Jensen says he's always wondered, "Are Dean and Sam (Jared Padalecki) really that important that they're going to be the focal point of this apocalypse? Or are they just going to be caught in the crossfire, trying to use whatever they can to help fight for the good? I think it's going to be more of this big, gigantic thing going on and we're stuck in the middle. I don't think we're necessarily going to be the focal point of anybody's hunt. We're going to lend whatever help we can to Castiel (Misha Collins) and the angels to do their job. But what that is, I don't know."As for poor Sam, Jensen says that Sam's blood-addiction will remain an issue next season: "The demon stuff is still coursing through his veins, and he's got that to deal with. The season finale ended with the big, giant realization that he was being duped into becoming what he didn't want to be. So now he's got to deal with that and try to get back to neutral."

Season five hasn't gone into production yet, but Ackles also addressed rumors of a 6th season of Supernatural:

"That started over in England. Jared and I were over there doing a convention. Everything was being lined up that this was the final season. We basically just said that our contracts were for six years--whether they use us for the six years is completely up to them. As it looks right now, it won't [happen]. It's like, if there is, we're going to be a part of it. I guess the studio's fine with it. I think it's just the network, you know? It's their call."

One Tree Hill Flashes Forward

Rumors in cyberspace abound that One Tree Hill might take another great leap forward when it returns this fall. This time around...expect a flash forward where the action picks up one year after last season's finale. We'll keep you posted...