{"id":1926,"date":"2001-05-17T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2001-05-17T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2008-08-03T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T11:08:22","slug":"upn-picks-up-roswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/05\/upn-picks-up-roswell\/","title":{"rendered":"UPN Picks up Roswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who sent this in!<\/p>\n<p>From eonline.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUPN picks up &#8216;Roswell,&#8217; adds two other series<\/p>\n<p>UPN, looking as if it should be called The WB II on Tuesday night, finalized an order for 22 episodes of &#8220;Roswell&#8221; to serve as a 9 p.m. (ET) lead-out from &#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8221; for next fall. [&#8230;]\n[&#8230;]\nGrabbing the headlines, though, will be the 22-episode order for modest sophomore performer &#8220;Roswell,&#8221; which The WB canceled early Wednesday. Hollywood talent agency sources believe UPN agreed to pay about a 10 percent hike on &#8220;Roswell&#8217;s&#8221; license fee, taking it up to about $1 million per episode.<\/p>\n[&#8230;] The Tuesday tandem of &#8220;Buffy&#8221; and &#8220;Roswell&#8221; will now face off against The WB&#8217;s highly acclaimed &#8220;Gilmore Girls&#8221; and the Superman teen prequel &#8220;Smallville&#8221; starting next September. The last time two network series moved in tandem from one network to another was when sitcoms &#8220;Family Matters&#8221; and &#8220;Step by Step&#8221; jumped from ABC to CBS in 1997 [&#8230;]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click here for the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who sent this in! From eonline.com: UPN picks up &#8216;Roswell,&#8217; adds two other series UPN, looking as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}