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This is Reese's "excited" face. 

It's a good day to be a CBS series: Just like last year, the network has issued a mass renewal encompassing most of its schedule, ordering new seasons of 14 of its primetime series. Let's do this the easy way, shall we?

Renewed today:
2 Broke Girls
48 Hours
60 Minutes
The Amazing Race
Blue Bloods
Elementary
The Good Wife
Hawaii Five-0
The Mentalist
Mike & Molly
NCIS: Los Angeles
Person of Interest
Survivor

Renewed previously:
The Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
CSI
NCIS

No word yet:
Criminal Minds
Golden Boy
Two and a Half Men
CSI:NY
Vegas

Obviously, this news means most of CBS's roster will remain intact going into the 2013-2014 season. Most of today's renewals were givens; of the shows that are still awaiting verdicts, Two and a Half Men will almost certainly return—the network is currently in talks to bring it back, so it's a sure bet once all the necessary contracts are signed. CSI:NY is a long shot, as is the moving-to-Fridays Vegas. I'm also not liking Golden Boy's odds. Finally, Criminal Minds is on pretty solid ground; like Two and a Half Men, paperwork is probably the only reason it wasn't included in today's announcement. 

Which renewal are you most excited about? Which non-renewal are you most concerned about? 

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The summer TV schedule continues to take shape: The CW has just added another lineup to the mix by announcing official premiere dates for a handful of shows. Unsurprisingly, not many of them sound all that promising, with the exception of the network's upcoming Whose Line Is It Anyway? revival.

The new version of the improv comedy show will be hosted by the lovely and amazing Aisha Tyler (Archer, The Talk) and will kick off The CW's warm-weather schedule on Tuesday, July 16 at with back-to-back new episodes starting 8pm. Former cast members Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady, and Colin Mochrie will all return, and the show's format will remain largely the same (the cast plays a bunch of improv games with prompts from the host and the audience; good times ensue). 

Okay, what else, what else? Actually, there are only three more shows to talk about: Perfect Score premieres the same night as Whose Line; it's a half-hour dating show hosted by Arielle Kebbel (The Vampire Diaries' Lexi) where contestants can win cash in addition to getting dates. Breaking Pointe, a docu-reality series set at a professional ballet company in Salt Lake City, returns for Season 2 on Monday, July 29. And finally, The Hunt rounds things out Wednesday, July 31; it's an hour-long "wilderness competition" series with elements of both Survivor and The Hunger Games (no murder, though!) that puts twelve two-person teams in "a fenced-in enclosure in the middle of the wild, where they must live for one month and compete against each other for scarce resources" for a price of $250,000 on the line.

That all sounds... well, it sounds mostly not noteworthy and partially terrible, but it's summer television on a broadcast network, folks. Cable's where it's at. 

THE CW's 2013 SUMMER SCHEDULE

TUESDAY, JULY 16

8:00-8:30pm                 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Series Premiere)

8:30-9:00pm                 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (All-New Original Episode)

9:00-9:30pm                 Perfect Score (Series Premiere)

9:30-10:00pm               Perfect Score (All-New Original Episode)

BEGINNING TUESDAY, JULY 23

8:00-8:30pm                 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Original Episode)

8:30-9:00pm                 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Encore)

9:00-9:30pm                 Perfect Score (Original Episode)

9:30-10:00pm               Perfect Score (Encore)

MONDAY, JULY 29

9:00-10:00pm               Breaking Pointe (Season 2 Premiere)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31

9:00-10:00pm               The Hunt (Series Premiere)

Anything here sound good to you?

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