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The CW's new schedule may be the least new of any fall schedule in TV history — 90 percent of it is filled with returning shows.

The network is adding just one new show — "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" — for the fall. Two others — "D.C.'s Legends of Tomorrow" and "Containment" — are on the bench and will slated to premiere in early 2016.

Oddly enough, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" was originally developed for pay-cable channel Showtime. (Both The CW and Showtime are part of the CBS Corporation.) According to CW president Mark Pedowitz, the series about a young woman who gives up her successful career as a lawyer to look for love is the "perfect companion" for "Jane the Virgin" on Monday nights, and — other than expanding it from 30 minutes to an hour — the only adjustment from the Showtime version were some "modest language changes."

Other than the addition of that show, the only changes to The CW's schedule were shifting "The Originals" from Mondays to Thursdays and shifting "Reign" from Thursdays to Fridays.

THE CW'S FALL 2015 SCHEDULE

(New show is CAPITALIZED)

MONDAY

7 p.m. — "CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND"

8 p.m. — "Jane the Virgin"

TUESDAY

7 p.m. — "The Flash"

8 p.m. — "iZombie"

WEDNESDAY

7 p.m. — "Arrow"

8 p.m. — "Supernatural"

THURSDAY

7 p.m. — "The Vampire Diaries"

8 p.m. — "The Originals"

FRIDAY

7 p.m. — "Reign"

8 p.m. — "America's Next Top Model"

Here are The CW's descriptions of its new series:

NEW FALL SERIES

"CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND" (Mondays, 7 p.m.): Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything – her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan – in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, Calif. (it's only two hours from the beach! Four in traffic).

From CBS Television Studios, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND stars Rachel Bloom ("Robot Chicken"), who also serves as executive producer along with Aline Brosh McKenna ("The Devil Wears Prada"); and Marc Webb ("500 Days of Summer," "The Amazing Spider-Man" films).

NEW MIDSEASON SERIES

"DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW": When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs legends.  Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW stars Victor Garber ("The Flash," "Alias"); Brandon Routh ("Arrow," "Superman Returns"); Arthur Darvill ("Doctor Who"); Caity Lotz ("Arrow"); Ciarra Renee ("Pippin"); Franz Drameh ("Edge of Tomorrow"); with Dominic Purcell ("The Flash," "Prison Break"); and Wentworth Miller ("The Flash," "Prison Break").

Based on the characters from DC Comics, DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti ("Arrow," "The Flash," upcoming "Pan"), Marc Guggenheim ("Arrow," "Eli Stone," "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters"), Andrew Kreisberg ("Arrow," "The Flash," "Eli Stone," "Warehouse 13") and Sarah Schechter ("Arrow," "The Flash," upcoming "Pan").

"CONTAINMENT": When a mysterious and deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta, a vast urban quarantine is quickly enforced, forcing those stuck on the inside to fight for their lives while local and federal officials desperately search for a cure.

Trying to keep the peace on the streets is police officer Lex Carnahan, who has quickly risen through the ranks of the Atlanta PD.  But Lex's job becomes even harder when he learns that his longtime girlfriend, Jana, and his best friend and fellow officer Jake, are trapped within the cordoned area.  Also quarantined in viral ground zero is 17 year-old Teresa, who is eight months pregnant and now separated from her boyfriend on the other side; Katie Frank, an elementary school teacher now placed on lockdown with her entire class, including her young son; and CDC researcher Dr. Victor Cannerts, the doctor who initially made the controversial call to quarantine the area and is now racing to find a cure for the virus.  On the outside, Dr. Sabine Lommers is leading the government efforts to contain the outbreak, and has asked for Lex's help in enforcing the cordon – which grows increasingly difficult as the public trust deteriorates. And the public has reason to be wary, as journalist Leo begins unraveling a conspiracy, finding that something doesn't add up in the official story being told. Torn apart from their loved ones, the survivors trapped within the cordon are fighting against not only fatal infection, but also isolation, fear, and the disintegration of society around them. But as they begin to gain each other's trust, hope remains, and on either side of the cordon unlikely heroes will rise.

CONTAINMENT stars David Gyasi ("Interstellar"); Christina Moses ("Starship: Apocalypse," "Starship: Rising"); Chris Wood ("The Vampire Diaries"); Kristen Gutoskie ("Beaver Falls"); Claudia Black ("The Originals," "Farscape"); George Young ("Casualty"); Hanna Mangan Lawrence ("Spartacus: War of the Damned"); and Trevor St. John ("One Life to Live").  Based on the original Belgian series created by Carl Joos for Eyeworks, CONTAINMENT is produced by My So-Called Company in association with Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Julie Plec ("The Vampire Diaries," "The Originals") and David Nutter ("The Flash," "Arrow").

In addition, "The 100" and "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" will both return at midseason. Season 3 of "Beauty and the Beast" will air this summer; Season 4 has already been ordered and is tentatively slated to air in the summer of 2016.

The CW canceled "Cedric's Barber Battle," "Hart of Dixie" and "Messengers."