Los Angeles ? A different kind of hero is moving to Wednesday nights on The WB.

Starting in January, “Angel” will move from Sunday nights to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, replacing the canceled “Birds of Prey.” The reality show “High School Reunion,” from “Bachelor” producer Mike Fleiss, will take the 8 p.m. Sunday spot for January and February.

After debuting to an audience of more than 7 million, female-superhero series “Birds of Prey” has steadily lost viewers, falling to an average of about 5 million for the season. However, the network was encouraged by the young male viewers the show was able to draw in the face of competition from “The Bachelor” and “Fastlane.”

“We believe ‘Birds of Prey’ proved there’s a fantasy audience there and a male audience there,” WB Entertainment president Jordan Levin says.

The problem, Levin says, was that they failed to find a “strong-writing show runner” who worked well with creator Laeta Kalogridis, a feature-film writer making her first foray into television.

“We think we can attribute the erosion of ‘Birds of Prey,’ quite frankly, to a failure of execution,” he says. “We think we had a very strong concept and just failed to execute it, and audiences abandoned the show as a result.”

“High School Reunion” brings together 17 people from a suburban Chicago high school’s class of 1992. Ensconced in an estate on Maui, they’ll be able to re-establish old friendships, pursue a high-school crush or exact revenge on a bully. Repeats of each episode will air at 7 p.m. Thursdays.

The Thursday repeats of “Reunion” will bump “Family Affair” and “Do Over,” which are going on hiatus until spring. Another new series, “The Surreal Life” ” a “Real World”-style series featuring B-list celebrities ” will join “JKX: The Jamie Kennedy Experiment” to create an all-unscripted night.