Emma
02-28-2006, 02:11 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/supernatural/supernatural09200555.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="left" border="0" alt=" Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural, WB"> Next fall, when you go searching for your favorite television shows on the WB and UPN, you will be as successful as George W. Bush was searching for WMDs in Iraq. Starting next fall, the WB and UPN will no longer exist; the two channels will merge into one new network, the CW.
Both television networks, owned by the same parent company, constantly compete for fifth place in overall ratings, and one never gains any more ground than the other. Once they merge, the two small networks hope to turn into one great network. The question is: Will audiences be open to a fifth huge network? The critics have been wrong before, saying the marketplace had no room for a fourth network, but now Fox is No. 3 in the ratings, ahead of NBC.
For all those afraid that the merging of these two networks will be the death of everyone's favorite shows and teen dramas, fear not. According to the press release, UPN's "Everybody Hates Chris," "America's Next Top Model" and "Veronica Mars" -- along with the WB's "Smallville," "Gilmore Girls," "Supernatural," "Beauty and the Geek" and "One Tree Hill" -- are all safe. Thankfully, with all these great shows combining, each network can drop some of its more dreadful shows, such as "Related" on the WB and "South Beach" on UPN.
As an avid viewer of both channels, I can only hope that with the birth of this bigger and better network, come Emmy season next year, some of television's great performances will finally get noticed. At this point, Lauren Graham from "Gilmore Girls" has been snubbed six times, when people such as Geena Davis win awards for underwhelming performances on ABC's "Commander in Chief."
On a personal note, this CW network could not be more exciting, although it should have been named WU (whoo). Now that would be a fun network to say you are watching.
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Source: University Wire
Both television networks, owned by the same parent company, constantly compete for fifth place in overall ratings, and one never gains any more ground than the other. Once they merge, the two small networks hope to turn into one great network. The question is: Will audiences be open to a fifth huge network? The critics have been wrong before, saying the marketplace had no room for a fourth network, but now Fox is No. 3 in the ratings, ahead of NBC.
For all those afraid that the merging of these two networks will be the death of everyone's favorite shows and teen dramas, fear not. According to the press release, UPN's "Everybody Hates Chris," "America's Next Top Model" and "Veronica Mars" -- along with the WB's "Smallville," "Gilmore Girls," "Supernatural," "Beauty and the Geek" and "One Tree Hill" -- are all safe. Thankfully, with all these great shows combining, each network can drop some of its more dreadful shows, such as "Related" on the WB and "South Beach" on UPN.
As an avid viewer of both channels, I can only hope that with the birth of this bigger and better network, come Emmy season next year, some of television's great performances will finally get noticed. At this point, Lauren Graham from "Gilmore Girls" has been snubbed six times, when people such as Geena Davis win awards for underwhelming performances on ABC's "Commander in Chief."
On a personal note, this CW network could not be more exciting, although it should have been named WU (whoo). Now that would be a fun network to say you are watching.
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Source: University Wire