{"id":1920,"date":"2001-05-16T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2001-05-16T10:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2008-08-03T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T10:59:52","slug":"scifi-roswell-fans-take-on-upn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/05\/scifi-roswell-fans-take-on-upn\/","title":{"rendered":"Scifi: Roswell Fans Take On UPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Yoss for this :)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Roswell Fans Take On UPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fans of The WB&#8217;s canceled teen alien series Roswell have mailed more than 12,000 bottles of Tabasco&#8211;the aliens&#8217; favorite condiment&#8211;to UPN in hopes of persuading them to pick the show up for a third season. On May 15, The WB dropped Roswell from its fall schedule; a similar letter-writing and petition campaign was instrumental in The WB&#8217;s renewing Roswell for a second season last year.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Spice Up Your Lineup&#8211;Add Roswell to UPN&#8221; campaign is organized in part by denizens of the Roswell 2 fan Web site. The campaign started about a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post, meanwhile, reported that Roswell executives went to UPN and dropped off an online petition to save the show that was signed by about 30,000 fans. &#8220;Aren&#8217;t these the kind of fans that networks pray for?&#8221; executive producer Kevin Brown told the Post. UPN unveils its fall schedule on May 17. UPN has already acquired The WB&#8217;s Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Yoss for this :) Roswell Fans Take On UPN Fans of The WB&#8217;s canceled teen alien series Roswell<\/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-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}