Here are The CW’s official descriptions for the series premieres of Hellcats and Nikita, which air on September 8 and 9, respectively.
The network has also announced title of the Hellcats premiere episode will be “A World Full Of Strangers.”
Hellcats: (Visit our forum!)
ALY MICHALKA (“BANDSLAM”) AND ASHLEY TISDALE (“HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL”) STAR IN A NEW COMING-OF-AGE DRAMA — Marti Perkins (Michalka), a law student at Lancer University, discovers that her scholarship has been cancelled and her well-meaning but irresponsible mother, Wanda (Gail O’Grady, “NYPD Blue,” “American Dreams”) has neglected to inform her. Broke and out of options, Marti realizes the only way she can stay in school is to win a place on the Hellcats – Lancer’s legendary cheer squad – and the scholarship that comes with it. Despite a confrontation with the Hellcats peppy team captain, Savannah (Tisdale), Marti wins over coach Vanessa Lodge (Sharon Leal, “Dreamgirls”), makes the squad and is thrust into a competitive world unlike anything she has ever known. With her best friend Dan (Matt Barr, “Harper’s Island”) by her side, Marti navigates her new world as a cheerleader and Savannah’s new roommate, while trying to avoid any interaction with squad member Alice Verdura (Heather Hemmens, “CSI: Miami”), who is instantly jealous when she realizes that Marti has caught the eye of Alice’s ex-boyfriend Lewis Flynn (Robbie Jones, “One Tree Hill”). Allan Arkush directed the episode written by Kevin Murphy (#101).
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SERIES PREMIERE OF THE NEW ACTION DRAMA STARRING MAGGIE Q AS NIKITA — When she was a deeply troubled teenager, Nikita (Maggie Q, “Mission Impossible III”) was rescued from death row by a secret U.S. agency known only as Division, who trained her as a spy and assassin. Nikita was eventually betrayed by the only people she thought she could trust. Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita is seeking retribution and making it clear to her former boss, Percy (Xander Berkeley, “24”) and her former friends Michael (Shane West, “E.R.”) and Birkhoff (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand) that she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy their covert operation. Division continues to recruit and train other young people, among them Jaden (Tiffany Hines, “Bones”) and Thom (Ashton Holmes, “Boston Legal”), erasing all evidence of their former lives and turning them into cold and efficient killers. One of these new recruits, Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca, “Kick-Ass”) is a beautiful girl with a violent past and a story not so different from Nikita’s. The recruits all spend part of their training with Amanda (Melinda Clarke, “The O.C.”), a master manipulator who can turn any ugly duckling into a swan and any bleeding heart into a killer. Danny Cannon directed the pilot written by Craig Silverstein.
