12 shows to watch on The CW in October

Are you ready for Fall TV on The CW? Due to the pandemic, the 2020-2021 line-up was all over the place with shows making their return far later than usual or having intermittent hiatuses that left viewers hanging in the middle of a season for months. The network, however, is set to right the ship for the 2021-2022 television year and we can’t be happier!

While we’ll have to wait until November for Riverdale season 6 and The Flash season 8, the rest of The CW’s fall programming will be kicking this television season into high gear with fan favorites Nancy Drew and All American making their return only a few short months after their finales aired in the summer.

CW viewers can also anticipate the return of two Arrowverse shows–Batwoman and Legends of Tomorrow–along with the premiere of two new unscripted offerings. Sundays on the network are reserved for both screams and ancient thrills as Killer Camp and Legends of the Hidden Temple provide some end of the weekend TV game show and competition goodness.

Here’s what’s premiering and returning to The CW in October including dates and times so you can mark your calendar and set a reminder. You won’t want to miss what the network has in store for viewers this fall!

Shows coming to The CW in October 2021

Spoilers ahead for the upcoming seasons

Friday, Oct. 1

8 p.m. – Penn & Teller: Fool Us season 8

Penn and Teller are back with a new season of their magic competition series. Can these new contestants stump the master magicians and claim the top prize?

Friday, Oct. 8

8 p.m. – Nancy Drew season 3

Nancy has a fight on her hands with Temperance Hudson, her ancestor who has possessed her cousin Myrtle. Something dark sits at the heart of this clash but that won’t be the sleuth’s only concern. When it comes to romance she has her mind on Ace, but he has his eyes on someone else.

Saturday, Oct. 9

8 p.m. – Whose Line Is It Anyway? season 18

The long running improv comedy series will return for its eighteenth season. Host Aisha Tyler will give comedians Wayne Brady, Ryan Stiles, and Colin Mochrie as well as a guest a series of prompts with which to make a sketch, as usual, hilarity ensues.

9 p.m. – World’s Funniest Animals season 2

In the same vein of as America’s Funniest Home Videos but specifically geared toward pets and other animals, World’s Funniest Animals is back for a second season of laughs.

Sunday, Oct. 10

8 p.m. – Legends of the Hidden Temple series premiere

It’s been 26 years since Legends of the Hidden Temple took its final bow and now the game show is set to make a revival on The CW. Hosted by Cristela Alonzo, this revival will once again pit contestants against one another in psychical challenges and trivia to win a chance to retrieve the ancient artifact hidden in the temple before its guards can grab them.

9 p.m. – Killer Camp (US) series premiere

A U.S. version of the British series Killer Camp makes its debut this fall. Contestants will be dropped into a summer camp where a killer runs loose. In order to win they’ll have to figure out who is the murderer among them before they wind up “dead.”

Wednesday, Oct. 13

8 p.m. – DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 7

The Legends will have their work cut out for them in season 7 as they attempt to return to their present. Being stranded in 1925 in America’s Prohibition era isn’t exactly their idea of a good time.

9 p.m. – Batwoman season 3

Last season, Ryan found out her mother is alive. It’s a revelation that’s set to rock her world even further as her birth mom is closer than she thinks. In fact, she may be growing closer to the woman’s reckless and ambitious son.

Thursday, Oct. 14

9 p.m. – Legacies season 4

The big question of the fourth season is whether or not Hope will finally become the tribrid. As the season picks up right where season 3 ended, be prepared for the show to take a darker tone as the struggle to escape Malivore continues.

Monday, Oct. 25

8 p.m. – All American season 4

The football championship has been on the minds of both the Crenshaw and Beverly High teams but when tragedy strikes close to home, Spencer begins to question his future. Should he be leaving his family to go play college ball in a state so far away or should he remain in Crenshaw?

9 p.m – 4400 series premiere

This reboot of the 2000s series, The 4400, will see the return of over 4,000 people to the Detroit area who’d mysteriously went missing. With disappearances dating back a century, some of these individuals have lost their whole families while others will have to contend with their loved ones having moved on. All of this is on top of the government trying to contain the situation and them.

Thursday, Oct. 28

8 p.m. – Walker season 2

Unbeknownst to the Walker family, someone is spying on them, keeping tabs of their comings and goings from their home. Cordell may have gotten answers about his wife’s murder but his journey down that road isn’t over yet. Meanwhile his partner Micki will be making a big life decision, one that could see her going undercover to find out who is after Cordell.

Click through to the next page for CW shows premiering and returning in the midseason including the All American spin-off, All American: Homecoming.