Anyone miss the old UPN?

[BrooklynKnight]

Does anyone miss the old UPN?

Where every season they had a new sci-fi tv series?

I mean, its from UPN that we had The Sentinel, Nowhere Man, Jake 2.0, FX The Series, Team Knight Rider, Special Unit 2, that show with the computer programmer where his dad was a virus or something.... etc etc etc.

Oh, cant forget one of my all time favorites. 7 days.

Lets not forget continuing Roswell and Buffy...

Nowadays it seems as if UPN is only intrested in black sitcom programming. :-( I mean, sure some of those shows are funny. But i want my Network Sci-fi channel back!

 

[Green Knight]

Not really. The only show on that list that was worth a damn was Nowhere Man. The rest were garbage. Sorry, but 7 Days wasn't that great. Hell, even the actors were relieved that it got cancelled. As for Buffy, those last two seasons were its worst.

 

[2d6]

Not at all.

The only one of the shows I've enjoyed is Jake 2.0 but it wasn't around long enough to get attached too.

As for the ethnic sitcoms, maybe they are trying to follow in the WB's footsteps? It seems that was the way WB started out and anymore I think I spen most of my viewing time on that channal.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Not as much as I miss old WB. Buffy, Angel, Dawson's Creek (wait for it...) and Felicity (...dodges live grenade). Man, that was at least 50% of my weekly TV viewing back in the day.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Yeah, I don't miss it either. Crap is still crap, no matter what genre. If the local affiliate chose to stop airing UPN, I really wouldn't care at all.

 

[Ranger REG]

Does anyone miss the old UPN?

How far are we going back?

Where every season they had a new sci-fi tv series?

Gee, it wasn't that far back.

I mean, its from UPN that we had The Sentinel, Nowhere Man, Jake 2.0, FX The Series, Team Knight Rider, Special Unit 2, that show with the computer programmer where his dad was a virus or something.... etc etc etc.

Okay, I don't recall TKR being part of the network programming. I do recalled it aired for only one season as a syndicated show (my Hawaii FOX TV station bought the right to air it). The same with FX: The Series (the Australian lead actor is now on She Spy TV series).

Oh, cant forget one of my all time favorites. 7 days.

I recalled that show. Been wondering what happened to the actress now.

Lets not forget continuing Roswell and Buffy...

I remember it well.

Nowadays it seems as if UPN is only intrested in black sitcom programming. :-( I mean, sure some of those shows are funny. But i want my Network Sci-fi channel back!

Sounds like they're changing format. So's TheWB. That's too bad. I wanted to watch the Rachel Leigh Cook sci-fi/adventure series, Fearless (she portrayed an FBI agent and a "woman without fear"). Meh. I usually don't care. I always watch my favorite sci-fi series on syndication.

On the bright side, FOX is actually giving the green light to renew Tru Calling starring Eliza Dushku (saying her name sounds so sexy ... "Dushku").

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Damn, i was hoping they'd cancel it so she could go do a Faith Spinoff.

 

[WizarDru]

UPN has never really offered up much good stuff to begin with, really. Jake 2.0 was harmless, but I didn't really feel compelled to come back after episode 2. A little too derivative for my tastes. 7 days never did it for me, either. The Sentinel was just a cop show with an occasional gimmick, from what I could tell...again, not really bad, but I've seen that sort of thing a lot in the past 30 years, and done better, I thought.

I mean, quite honestly, UPN has Star Trek, and that's about it. Most of the others are, as Harlan Ellison would put it, "skiffy'. They're shows with a genre gimmick/element tossed in to the mix. And let's be honest, none of them lasted more than a season or two, at most. The Sentinel was the exception, not the rule, at three seasons.

Nowhere Man wasn't even sci-fi, but just consipiracy theory drama. I'd forgotten it even existed. I remember thinking it had promise, but suffered from X-files wannabe syndrome, and suspension of disbelief just was too much as it dragged on.

What I'd really like is a Sci-Fi channel that actually shows Sci-Fi, from time to time, instead of reality shows and lots of crappy horror movies. I mean, I like Stargate SG-1 as much as the next guy, but why is so much of what they produce just so bad?

 

[Rackhir]

What I'd really like is a Sci-Fi channel that actually shows Sci-Fi, from time to time, instead of reality shows and lots of crappy horror movies. I mean, I like Stargate SG-1 as much as the next guy, but why is so much of what they produce just so bad?

Presumably it makes them money. It's costs vs income and a cheap bad program that makes more money than a quality program will kill off the quality program every time. All the awful "Sci-Fi Original" movies seem to pop up on DVD, so that is at least another source of income off of them. Most of them seem like they have shoe-string budgets, so I can see a decent profit ratio off of them.

For example, it looks like one of the reasons why Angel got cancelled despite improved ratings/lower costs, is that WB is going primarily with "reality" shows that are dirt cheap to produce. Basically money trumps quality. As has been observed, the programs are only there to get you to watch comercials.

 

[WizarDru]

Presumably it makes them money. It's costs vs income and a cheap bad program that makes more money than a quality program will kill off the quality program every time. All the awful "Sci-Fi Original" movies seem to pop up on DVD, so that is at least another source of income off of them. Most of them seem like they have shoe-string budgets, so I can see a decent profit ratio off of them.

For example, it looks like one of the reasons why Angel got cancelled despite improved ratings/lower costs, is that WB is going primarily with "reality" shows that are dirt cheap to produce. Basically money trumps quality. As has been observed, the programs are only there to get you to watch comercials.

Oh, I know. I mean, Farscape got killed because it cost less to make Tremors: The Series or Black Scorpion and own all the rights than to have a very successful show and share the profits with Henson and others. And unfortunately, the ratings weren't that different.

I'm just lamenting that with Angel's passing, I'm only watching TLC and Cartoon Network with any regularlity, and not a single US Scifi show to choose from.

Sigh.