{"id":1197,"date":"2000-11-06T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2000-11-06T05:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2008-07-23T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T05:45:20","slug":"variety-confirms-show-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/11\/variety-confirms-show-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety Confirms Show Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>WB uncovers more &#8220;Roswell&#8221; episodes<\/p>\n<p>By Josef Adalian<\/p>\n<p>HOLLYWOOD (Variety) &#8211; The WB believes in aliens.<\/p>\n<p>The network has ordered nine additional episodes of its sophomore sci-fi<br \/>\ndrama &#8220;Roswell,&#8221; giving the show a full season run of 22 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roswell&#8221; garnered solid reviews last season and decent ratings but still<br \/>\nbarely managed to get renewed for a second year. The WB ultimately ordered 13<br \/>\nepisodes, spurred in part by a strong fan-based campaign to save the show and<br \/>\na decision to emphasize more of the show&#8217;s sci-fi elements. Jason Behr,<br \/>\nKatherine Heigl and Brendan Fehr star.<\/p>\n<p>So far this fall, &#8220;Roswell&#8221; has given the WB its best 9 p.m. Monday Nielsen<br \/>\nnumbers since &#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8221; moved out of the slot in January<br \/>\n1998. The show&#8217;s core strength lies with young femmes: It averages a 5.4<br \/>\nrating\/18 share in female teens and a 3.6\/10 in females 12-34.<\/p>\n<p>Among adults 18-49, &#8220;Roswell&#8221; has been averaging a 2.0\/5 &#8212; an 82% increase<br \/>\nover the network&#8217;s slot average last season. It has posted similar gains in<br \/>\nother key demos.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, &#8220;Roswell&#8221; creator-executive producer Jason Katims said he<br \/>\nis &#8220;extremely excited&#8221; about the full-season order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just a great feeling, a great boost of confidence for all of us at<br \/>\nthe show,&#8221; Katims told Daily Variety. &#8220;We&#8217;ve just gotten a lot of great<br \/>\nsupport from the WB and (producer) 20th Century Fox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reuters\/Variety <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WB uncovers more &#8220;Roswell&#8221; episodes By Josef Adalian HOLLYWOOD (Variety) &#8211; The WB believes in aliens. The network has ordered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}