BREAKING NEWS: What Is Returning and Been Cancelled by The CW

Attention fans of The CW!

First, let’s have some good news. The “bubble” shows that will be back are – drumroll please – Beauty And the Beast and Hart of Dixie. And, the new mid-season drama The 100 will get a second season. These shows join the already announced renewals of Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Arrow and Reign.

The bad news, however, is that The Carrie Diaries and the new dramas Star-Crossed and The Tomorrow People will NOT be coming back. The proposed spin-off series Supernatural: Bloodlines is also dead in the water.

The new dramas that will be coming to a small screen at some point in the 2014-2015 TV season will be: The Flash, Jane the Virgin, Zombie, and The Messengers.

Thanks go to the folks at Entertainment Weekly for the following details on the new CW shows:

THE FLASH: Based upon characters published by DC Comics. Through a freak accident, scientist Barry Allen is given the power of super speed that transforms him into the Fastest Man Alive. Cast: Grant Gustin (Barry Allen); Jesse L. Martin (Det. West); Tom Cavanaugh (Harrison Wells).

ZOMBIE: A med student-turned-zombie takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity, but with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories. With the help of her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she solves homicide cases in order to quiet the disturbing voices in her head. Based on the characters created by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred, and published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. Cast: Rose McIver (Liv).

JANE THE VIRGIN: Adapted from the successful Venezuelan telenovela. A series of surprising and unforeseen events causes a hard-working, religious young Latina woman to be accidentally artificially inseminated. Gina Rodriguez (Jane); Justin Baldoni (Rafael).

THE MESSENGERS: When a mysterious object crashes down to earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have been deemed responsible for preventing the impending Apocalypse. Cast: Shantel VanSaten (Vera); Diogo Morgado (The Man).

Let the grieving and/or rejoicing begin.