{"id":600,"date":"2000-05-18T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2000-05-18T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=600"},"modified":"2008-07-12T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T08:00:02","slug":"kudos-for-nets-top-rookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/05\/kudos-for-nets-top-rookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos for nets&#8217; top rookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Janet for sending this in!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TELEVISION<br \/>\n<strong>Kudos for nets&#8217; top rookies<\/strong><br \/>\nRICK KISSELL<\/p>\n<p>05\/15\/2000<br \/>\nVariety<br \/>\nPage 68<br \/>\nCopyright 2000 Variety, Inc.<br \/>\nHOLLYWOOD This season&#8217;s Rookies of the Year are a diverse group,<br \/>\nincluding dramas featuring characters ranging from the president of<br \/>\nthe United States to teenage aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Each has stepped in to fill trouble spots on network schedules and all<br \/>\nbut one has been guaranteed a sophomore season.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, two of the top rookies &#8212; ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Who Wants to Be a<br \/>\nMillionaire&#8221; and UPN&#8217;s &#8220;WWF Smackdown!&#8221; &#8212; would also rank as their<br \/>\nrespective nets&#8217; Most Valuable Players.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a net-by-net look at the season&#8217;s top rookie ratings<br \/>\nperformers:<\/p>\n<p>The WB : It&#8217;s been a rough year for the Frog weblet, but &#8220;Roswell ,&#8221;<br \/>\na drama about three aliens masquerading as human teens in Roswell ,<br \/>\nN.M., has emerged a success.<\/p>\n<p>The show, which has emphasized its sci-fi aspects with its recent move<br \/>\nto Monday, has done the best job of retaining the &#8220;7th Heaven&#8221;<br \/>\naudience in viewers and key demos than anything else the net has tried<br \/>\non Monday at 9 the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the only one of this season&#8217;s top rookies yet to be asked<br \/>\nback for a second season.<\/p>\n<p>So, just what do aliens cross for good luck?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Janet for sending this in! TELEVISION Kudos for nets&#8217; top rookies RICK KISSELL 05\/15\/2000 Variety Page 68 Copyright<\/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],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}