Heroes season 3 premieres on September 21 on NBC. Here’s the newest trailer that will air on August 30 on NBC. Needless to say, this clip contains spoilers.

Remember what TheWB was like before the trainwreck that is The CW? Well, it’s coming back. More or less. Variety reports that Warner Bros. is preparing for an August 27 launch of TheWB.com. The site will feature a mix of old series and also web originals for visitors to watch for free.

Returning TV shows include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, and The OC at launch, as well as Everwood, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Roswell, Smallville, Veronica Mars, Angel, Babylon 5, Firefly, In Living Color, The Loop, and MadTV.

Web original series include “Whatever Hollywood,” a skein revolving around the antics of three pals called Suri, Apple and Shiloh; “Blue Water High,” revolving around six Australian teenagers at an ultra-competitive surf academy and “A Boy Wearing Makeup,” a video diary about Mathieu Francis, who dispenses makeup advice and fashion tips; “Sorority Forever,” a mystery from McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision banner and Big Fantastic; Josh Schwartz’s untitled music project, a look behind the scenes at a fictional Hollywood rock club; “Rich Girl, Poor Girl,” a reality skein from “Laguna Beach” creator Gary Auerbach; “Exposed,” a thriller about a college student haunted by his past that Wonderland is exec producing with Blake Calhoun and Mike Maden for Alternative Fuel. “High Drama: Against All Oz,” an unscripted series about a big-budget high school musical; “Chadam,” an action-horror-adventure toon; “Downers Grove,” about pals who stayed in the suburbs while the rest of their classmates went away to college; and “Joni & Susanna,” revolving around two best friends/frenemies in their 20s.

The 90210 spinoff hasn’t even started airing yet, but sources confirmed to E that Tori Spelling has pulled out of her deal with The CW.

According to insiders, Tori asked for a rate hike after she learned that Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty were making $40,000-50,000 per episode, whereas she was making less than $20,000 (granted, Donna Martin was a much more minor character, and Tori’s star hasn’t shined quite as brightly as either of theirs after the fact either). Because the network denied this request, she’s backed out altogether.

The show’s rep at the CW says: “The CW has no deal with Tori Spelling to appear on 90210 at this time.”

And Tori’s rep says the same: “At this point there are no plans for Tori to appear on the 90210 spinoff.”

There is still some time for the two sides to come together on the issue, however.

ABC announced today that it has picked up Wipeout for season 2 following a strong debut in its first season. Not much in the way of details (summer show again?), but ABC’s gloating about ratings follows.

A hit summer series for ABC, “Wipeout” dominates Tuesday’s 8:00 o’clock hour in Total Viewers and across each of the key Adult demographics (AD18-34/AD18-49/AD25-54). In its six telecasts to date, “Wipeout” has consistently ranked as the No. 2 show of the week in both Total Viewers and Adults 18-49. On average, the ABC freshman series leads NBC’s competing new series, “Celebrity Family Feud,” in the hour by 2.4 million viewers and by 81% in Adults 18-49. Since its debut, “Wipeout” stands as the summer’s No. 1 TV program with Men 18-49 and Men 25-54, and is the No. 2 show in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, behind only NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” respectively. The No. 1 new series of Summer 2008 in viewers and young adults, “Wipeout” represents TV’s highest-rated freshman summer series (for any net) in three years in Adults 18-49 — since the initial season of “Dancing with the Stars” in Summer 2005.

Under the “You won’t care about this” category, Media Rights Capital has filled in the rest of The CW Sunday night schedule.

From 5-6, MRC will show reruns of In Harm’s Way. New episodes of this new series will air on The CW Sunday nights at 7 (6:30 as of October).

4Real is a half hour Canadian celebrity show produced by Joaquin Phoenix. This series will air from 6-7 on Sunday nights this fall through October.

MONDAY, AUGUST 25
8-9 Deal or No Deal (moves to Wednesday and Friday in October)
9-10 America’s Toughest Jobs (moves to Fridays at 8-9 on September 19)

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
8-10 The Biggest Loser: Families

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
8-9 Heroes clip show
9-11 Heroes season 3

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
10-11 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
8-9 Knight Rider
10-11 Lipstick Jungle

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
8-9 My Name Is Earl
9-10 The Office
10-11 ER

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
8-9 Chuck
10-11 Life (moves to Fridays at 10-11 as of October 10)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9
8:30-9 Kath & Kim

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13
10-11 My Own Worst Enemy

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
8-10 Crusoe

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
9:30-10 30 Rock

America’s Got Talent will return after the Olympics and finish on October 1.

In April The CW made the (really stupid) decision to pull full streaming episodes off its website in an effort to bring more fans to watch the show on TV. The experiment didn’t do much for ratings but rather primarily angered fans, who probably just found ways to watch it illegally or just stopped watching it entirely (I’ve decided I’m against Fox being anti-Internet and have stopped watching So You Think You Can Dance for this reason, but that’s a rant for another time).

According to TV Week, the network has decided to reverse course and plans to once again begin airing full episodes of Gossip Girl on its website.

The CW has announced premiere dates for the Fall 2008 schedule.

Monday September 1
Gossip Girl
One Tree Hill

Tuesday September 2
90210 (two hour special)

Wednesday September 3
America’s Next Top Model

Tuesday September 9
Privileged

Thursday September 18
Smallville
Supernatural

Friday October 3
Everybody Hates Chris
The Game

Wednesday October 29
Stylista

As for Sundays, it’s becoming more and more apparent nobody cares about Sundays on The CW, including The CW itself, but MRC’s plans are as follows:

Sunday September 21
7-8 In Harm’s Way
8-9 Valentine
9-10 Easy Money

Sunday November 2
6:30-7:30 In Harm’s Way
7:30-8 Surviving Suburbia

The CW already plans to launch earlier than everyone this year, with its fall lineup premiering on September 1. Theoretically The CW won’t be completely invisible just yet, and the network has suggested that the 2009 fall schedule could launch as early as July or August.

“We feel like we need to look at this in a different way. The idea is to get out of the fray and be able to bring viewers in when there’s not as much competition,” The CW president Dawn Ostroff said.

Variety reports that the plan may result in ending the 2009-2010 season in April instead of May, as well as having additional midseason shows to fill the gaps.

The network would have tried this strategy this year but didn’t want to compete with the Olympics, and as a result has been largely dark this summer.

Regardless of what nightmares the previous casts she’s worked with have had, Shannen Doherty will be returning to the 90210 zip code as Brenda Walsh on The CW’s Beverly Hills 90210 spinoff. In addition to Doherty, Jennie Garth will be returning as Kelly Taylor, Tori Spelling will return as Donna Martin, and Joe E. Tata will be returning as Peach Pit owner Nat.