Thursday, May 19, 2005

Fall Schedules: UPN

There's not very much of interest at UPN as the struggling network unveils the week's least inspired fall schedule.

With ten hours a week to program UPN has decided to fill one of those with reruns of their most successful show (America's Next Top Model) while two hours remain devoted to WWE Smackdown! (now on the move to Fridays).

Of the two shows the network was high on last season, they've brought back one (Veronica Mars, which is now heading into battle against Lost) and cancelled the other (Kevin Hill, which was light, fun and smart but never found much critical or audience traction).

I have a feeling the less said about new Silver Lake-set soap opera Sex, Lies & Secrets, the better (and yes that's the real title, at least for now).

That just leaves new comedy Everybody Hates Chris which kicks off a new comedy block on Thursdays. It sounds like Chris Rock's version of The Wonder Years.

Ok, so maybe UPN had one good idea after all.

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