On Friday, May 13, the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise aired on the UPN network.
The teen-friendly net, an amalgam of the now-defunct WB and UPN, got off to a rocky start.
But then again, UPN and the WB were never trying to appeal to those folks to begin with.
Whedon moved the show from the Fox network to the smaller UPN station following a dispute over a money.
When the UPN network also backed away, its pullback sealed the XFL's fate.
Then in late 1994 both Time Warner's WB and United Paramount Network (UPN) went seeking affiliates for their fledgling networks.
Viacom's other television properties include UPN, Black Entertainment Television and TV Land, all of which have relatively small but growing audiences.
Compare this with the experience of rival broadcaster Chris-Craft Industries, which until a year ago assumed all the losses for UPN.
ABC's "Brother's Keeper" and UPN's "Guys Like Us" call for guys' eyes.
Apparently, this is where Ostroff and her programmers have decided to house the old UPN's shows that aimed at "diverse" (translation: African-American) audiences.
The seventh series, currently showing on UPN in the US and Sky One in the UK, will be the final according to Gellar.
The upshot--all but two of the shows the network will roll out next fall have already been airing on either UPN or the WB.
So far Tribune seems to have bet on the right horse: This season, UPN's household share is flat, while WB's share is up 25%.
The year-old marriage of now-shuttered WB and UPN had three of the pre-season's most critically acclaimed shows in Aliens In America, Reaper and Gossip Girl.
As a result, not even the UPN network, owned by Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people) would agree to broadcast the spectacle.
The show, which starred Kristen Bell as a plucky teen detective, aired on UPN and the CW for three seasons before going off the air in 2007.
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New comedies like ABC's "The Hughleys, " UPN's "Diresta, " Fox's "The Family Guy" and CBS's "King of Queens" center around family men whose goofs come mostly from being dopey guys.
And though few of the holdovers from the WB and UPN scored big ratings, a couple, America's Next Top Model and Beauty and the Geek, proved audiences would follow favorites.
Attempts to revive the series have largely struggled there was a 1985 edition that ran for three seasons (two on CBS, one in syndication), and another in 2002 on UPN that lasted only one season.
But just when I thought the CW, the new broadcast network created via a merger of the CBS 's UPN and Time Warner 's WB, might not be ready for prime time, I entered the Madison Square Garden theater.
Scott-Young's previous foray into unscripted television was UPN's "Road To Stardom with Missy Elliott" -- a quasi-mash-up of "America's Next Top Model" and '"American Idol" -- back in 2005, but the treacherous family dynamics and scandalous love lives of hip-hop stars is proving to be a winning recipe.
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