{"id":1205,"date":"2000-11-08T17:54:05","date_gmt":"2000-11-08T15:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2008-07-23T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:58:18","slug":"msnbc-tv-winners-and-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/11\/msnbc-tv-winners-and-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC: TV Winners and Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From MSNBC.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>TV winners and losers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HOLLYWOOD &#8211; The WB believes in aliens, but ABC is having trouble with &#8220;Normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The WB network has ordered nine additional episodes of its sophomore sci-fi drama &#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 barely managed to get renewed for a second year. The WB ultimately ordered 13 episodes for this season, spurred in part by a strong fan-based campaign to save the show and a decision to emphasize more of the show&#8217;s sci-fi elements.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, ABC has pulled rookie comedy &#8220;The Trouble with Normal&#8221; off the air for the remainder of the November sweeps. The series has been a consistent ratings loser since its Oct. 6 debut as part of the network&#8217;s new Friday night comedy block.<\/p>\n<p>ABC refused to say &#8220;Normal&#8221; was dead, although the network has yet to officially schedule a December return date. The critically lambasted show revolves around four paranoid New Yorkers and their shrink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MSNBC.com: TV winners and losers HOLLYWOOD &#8211; The WB believes in aliens, but ABC is having trouble with &#8220;Normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}