{"id":607,"date":"2000-05-19T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2000-05-19T08:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=607"},"modified":"2008-07-12T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T08:08:10","slug":"wb-saves-roswell-felicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/05\/wb-saves-roswell-felicity\/","title":{"rendered":"WB Saves Roswell, Felicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jen for sending this in!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWB Saves Roswell, Felicity<\/p>\n<p>OK, kids, you can stop sending those bottles of Tabasco now. The WB has<br \/>\nrenewed the sci-fi-teen hybrid Roswell, thanks to a viewer campaign that<br \/>\nbombarded the network and members of the media with the favorite condiment<br \/>\nof the series&#8217; aliens.<\/p>\n<p>The WB has also renewed shaky sophomore series Felicity for another year.<br \/>\nThe show, which stars Keri Russell, stays in its new Wednesday time slot,<br \/>\nwhile Roswell stays on Monday nights. There will be no Felicity repeats,<br \/>\naccording to USA Today; when the 11 new episodes have aired this fall,<br \/>\nFelicity will go on hiatus. Jack &#038; Jill will take its place in January, with<br \/>\n13 new episodes scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>The network is adding four new series and has picked up two struggling<br \/>\nseries from other networks, acquiring Sabrina, the Teenage Witch from ABC<br \/>\nand Eddie Murphy&#8217;s claymation comedy The PJs from Fox.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuesday night lineup of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel remains<br \/>\nunchanged; likewise, Dawson&#8217;s Creek and Charmed stay on Wednesdays and<br \/>\nThursdays, respectively. It&#8217;s been a shaky year at the WB, with a 20 percent<br \/>\ndrop in ratings, thanks partly to the loss of affiliate channel WGN in<br \/>\nChicago.<\/p>\n<p>The WB&#8217;s four new shows are Gilmore Girls, about a young, single mother and<br \/>\nher teenage daughter; Grosse Pointe, set behind the scenes of a prime-time<br \/>\nsoap opera; Hype, a Saturday Night Live-style sketch-comedy series; and<br \/>\nNikki, a sitcom starring Nikki Cox from Unhappily Ever After and Norm fame.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll star as a Las Vegas showgirl married to a pro wrestler.<\/p>\n<p>Gone from the WB lineup are Movie Stars, the retitled Zoe, and 7th Heaven:<br \/>\nBeginnings, the Sunday rerun of the network&#8217;s most popular series.<\/p>\n<p>Monday<br \/>\n8 p.m.* 7th Heaven<br \/>\n9 p.m. Roswell<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday<br \/>\n8 p.m. Buffy the Vampire Slayer<br \/>\n9 p.m. Angel<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday<br \/>\n8 p.m. Dawson&#8217;s Creek<br \/>\n9 p.m. Felicity<\/p>\n<p>Thursday<br \/>\n8 p.m. Gilmore Girls<br \/>\n9 p.m. Charmed<\/p>\n<p>Friday<br \/>\n8 p.m. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch<br \/>\n8:30 p.m. Grosse Pointe<br \/>\n9 p.m. Popular<\/p>\n<p>Sunday<br \/>\n7 p.m. The PJs<br \/>\n7:30 p.m. The Jamie Foxx Show<br \/>\n8 p.m. The Steve Harvey Show<br \/>\n8:30 p.m. For Your Love<br \/>\n9 p.m. Hype<br \/>\n9:30 p.m. Nikki<br \/>\n*All times are EST\/PST.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jen for sending this in! WB Saves Roswell, Felicity OK, kids, you can stop sending those bottles of<\/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":[103,2457,267,84],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-felicity","tag-roswell","tag-saved","tag-wb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}