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May it be ever in your favor TiVo!

The Hunger Games-esque show has joined the CW line up!

The network that lurves jumping on the band wagon — or hitching theirs to someone else's — is debuting The Selection this fall, based off a book by Kiera Cass, that ripped off is like the The Hunger Games.

This new show/book is about a girl from a futuristic, war-torn nation who is chosen by lottery to compete for fame and fortune against a backdrop of hunger and carnage. Sounds just kinda sorta familiar?? LOL!

Tags: aimee teegarden, network, new show, the cw, the hunger games, the selection

Witches, vampires and maybe even The Hunger Games???

Sounds like The CW could possibly be adding a Hunger Games-esque show to their lineup this fall, starring Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden!

The network, which aims its programming at young adults, has a pilot called The Selection, which is about a girl (Teegarden) who lives in a Panem-like society and is chosen to enter a cray cray competition to marry a prince!

Sounds pretty familiar, right?

Like the film, the show would be based off a series of books by

Tags: adaptation, competition, film, hunger games, network, series, the cw, the hunger games, the selection, the vampire diaries, twilight

Wowsa! Between these new show pickups and that Gossip Girl 100th episode shocker, it's been an exciting couple of days for The CW!

In the latest big move by CW president Mark Pedowitz, the network has picked up three new hourlong drama shows: J.J. Abrams' Shelter, Mark Harmon's Joey Dakota, and The Selection from Vampire Diaries producers Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain.

Here's how Abrams' Shelter is being described:

Tags: elizabeth craft, gossip girl, jj abrams, joey dakota, mark harmon, mark pedowitz, sarah fain, shelter, the cw, the selection, vampire diaries, vd