{"id":352,"date":"2000-03-27T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2000-03-27T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=352"},"modified":"2008-07-01T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:17:42","slug":"wb-tries-to-rebound-with-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/03\/wb-tries-to-rebound-with-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"WB tries to rebound with comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to bostonjan for sending this info!<\/p>\n<p>Not sure exactly what this means in the big picture.<\/p>\n<p>From: Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>WB tries to rebound with comedy, family fare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The WB Network has assembled the most ambitious development slate in its five-year history as it looks to add more comedies and family-friendly dramas to its primetime schedule next season. Comedy development is a top priority for next season as it looks to balance out its drama-heavy lineup. Of this season&#8217;s newcomers, the two shows sure to come back in the fall are dramas: Touchstone TV&#8217;s &#8220;Popular&#8221; and 20th Century Fox TV&#8217;s &#8220;Angel.&#8221; WB entertainment president Susanne Daniels noted that the network has increased its comedy license fees and given larger upfront commitments in order to attract such top writer-producers as &#8220;Friends&#8221; alumnus Alexa Junge, Darren Star (&#8220;Sex and the City&#8221;) and Bruce Helford (&#8220;The Drew Carey Show&#8221;). Junge and Star are working on twentysomething ensemble vehicles, while Helford is shepherding the animated sitcom &#8220;The Oblongs&#8221; and an untitled comedy starring Nikki Cox as a showgirl who has just tied the knot with a pro wrestler in Las Vegas. In the drama arena, the WB is looking to capitalize on the success of its top-rated show, &#8220;7th Heaven,&#8221; by developing compatible family-friendly pilots to pair with the show on Monday nights. Contenders include &#8220;Finally Home,&#8221; in which a couple who has just lost a son is moved to adopt three teenagers, and &#8220;Gilmore Girls,&#8221; a project with strong buzz that revolves around a young single mother and her teenage daughter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to bostonjan for sending this info! Not sure exactly what this means in the big picture. From: Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[40,84],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-article","tag-wb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}