Though featuring famous teenagers Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead, Riverdale isn’t intended to be an exact adaptation of the long-running Archie Comics.
Riverdale is expected to premiere on The CW this fall.
Along with Riverdale, the CW also gave series orders to Frequency, a TV adaptation of the 2000 film and Jane the Virgin‘s Brad Silberling’s latest, No Tomorrow.
The CW is very quickly becoming television’s home for comic book television.