The CW’s Pickups

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What a difference a year makes. The CW seems to have learned its lesson from last year, in that it’s actually picking up a few new shows this season.

On Tuesday, the network picked up one comedy and three dramas for the fall season:

The buzzed-about single-camera comedy, “Aliens In America,” which got tabled last year, is about a well-meaning mom who brings home an exchange student so her 16-year-old shy son can have a friend. She pictures a Nordic athlete. Instead she gets a Pakistani Muslim living in her Wisconsin home.

“Reaper” is about a 21-year-old video game addict who learns his soul was sold to the devil at birth and he becomes the devil’s bounty hunter.

“Running Wild” is based on a British series, ‘Wild at Heart’ and is a family drama about a New York suburban vet who moves his family to a game park in South Africa. This is an ambitious drama for the network -- it will be filmed entirely in South Africa.

Finally, Josh Schwartz’s “Gossip Girl,” an adaptation of the best-selling books.

-- Maria Elena Fernandez