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imagine, there's been no talk on this thread since may 20!!! well, i'm about to change that . . .

i think "the road to stardom with missy elliott" will be an excellent sub for America's Next Top Model at midseason. it's got to be a hit.

i also look forward to sampling "kevin hill", "veronica mars" and checking out "half & half" with firefly supporting castmate alec mapa.

you know everyone on this forum love the wb but shine off upn, honestly upn is the better net. monday, tuesday & thursdays are consistent wednesdays model/kevin hill looks like upn's biggest night next fall, that leaves fridays for enterprise (which should do better than what they had b4) the wb has stronger shows but these shows are getting a bit long in years (7th heaven/gilmore girls) heaven actually gets double what everything else gets but with this their last year the wb better start praying for a miricle.

my prediction next fall is that upn will win vs the wb.

i particularly agree with you for this past season, and there's quite a bit of hope for this being true next season. upn is really trying hard, and i wish them the best in taking over the wb!!!!!

what upn should do next year is diversify their schedule...its very ethnic and needs to be better balanced. i think they should import (not copy but buy) some british shows....i would love to see ab fab and coupling both of which i would not consider to racey for american tv

maybe in your dreams (i think patsy and eddie are in the old folks home now ) . . . actually, diversity is one of the keys to upn's success . . . and stretching diversity to other nights of the week as upn plans to do in the fall (horrors ) will make upn a model that the other nets might consider following. and we all know what we mean by our code words *ethnic* and *diversity* . . . what is this world coming to???

it just seems like upn is the "black network", i think they should just add some shows that have more of a mix. i guess im just use to seeing a bunch of white folk in front of the screen but when theres almost none i feel that i cant relate.

now im latin not white but to me if the show is funny and well written i'll watch (as i did with the parkers and moesha) but this is a little over kill for me. although i guess les moonves knows what hes doing since this net is more stable than either the wb and fox

I think UPN has a good chance of over taking the WB. They are being smart with their use of America's Next Top Model. Veronica Mars is getting a preview night airing behind America's Next Top Model for one night than moving to its new timeslot and Kevin Hill will take the slot. Both shows are heavily buzzed and if the quality is there I think UPN will grow big. The new comedy should fit right in with the others from what I hear. The only new show in danger for next season I think is Veronica Mars but even that has a chance(knock on wood). Abc and UPN are the ones to watch this season(I never thought I would say that)

UPN has a habit of getting big buzz and not capitalizing on it to the point that the next time they have a big PR move, everyone forgets there was ever a first one.
They premiered -huge- with 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and they will never again get the kind of ratings they had in their first few months. The WB was pathetic in comparison. But, despite a few decent, ill-fated dramas ('Nowhere Man,' 'The Beat,' perhaps '7 Days' and that rap underworld show last season I forget the title of), they have never been able to use the Star Trek shows to seed other sci-fi or dramatic shows. That leaves the wrestling audience they acquired in '98, and we all know how useless they are beyond Thursdays ('Shasta McNasty' anyone?), and the small urban audience they've courted since their second season on the air which has always been dependable, but less high-profile than Star Trek, wrestling, 'Love Boat: The Next Wave,' 'Dilbert,' 'Buffy' (all highly hyped acquisitions with big debuts), 'The Twilight Zone...' anything new that UPN tried to create was a bigger priority than the niche market that tuned into 'Moesha' and 'Malcolm and Eddie' but would rarely, if ever, watch 'Enterprise.' Now that even that show isn't as popular as 'Eve' or 'Girlfriends,' UPN has finally decided to capitalize beyond one or two nights of programming aimed at African-Americans. It makes sense, and 'Kevin Hill' and 'Veronica Mars' will probably work. Sci-fi audiences and WWE fans are still incompatible obstacles, but jettisoning Star Trek or wrestling would be foolish, as Thursdays and Fridays would be very hard to develop with totally new lineups.
UPN's priorities should be to promote the heck out of its critically-lauded shows, both new ('Kevin Hill,' 'Veronica Mars') and old ('Girlfriends,' 'Enterprise,' 'America's Next Top Model) and look towards expanding its lineup ('Enterprise' still has life in it and needs a better companion series to follow it, Sundays would be a good launchpad for more programming in line with its new Monday-Wednesday schedule).

I saw a cast picture of Veronica Mars. Looked "white" to me. That leaves Kevin Hill as a drama to appeal to the ethnic minority.