Frig it! It's the WB/UPN/MyNetworkTV/PAX/5th & 6th Networks thread

[King Kamala]

Does anyone remember PAX's weird attempt to cash in the pro wrestling and UFC craze? Of course, they didn't want anything as violent as UFC or edgy as '00s WWE so they came up with the ingenious idea of PROFESSIONAL AMATEUR WRESTLING!

I guess people in the mid '00s couldn't appreciate grappling.

 

[snuffbox]

Weird. I don't remember that at all.

 

[RedJed]

My only reference point for Real Pro Wrestling that when I would search on DirecTv for "pro wrestling" this shit would come up.

How about the run from WGN to have wrestling in the fold? Not only was WWE Superstars a thing on there for a bit (I remember reading WGN actually refused a renewal of the show), but then after that, they decided to make a deal with Ring Warriors, which broadcast from Sam's Town in Vegas. RW was some badly booked shit, BUT it had alot of stars based from Vegas like Kross and Jeff Cobb and tons others.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Sean Mooney anchoring UPN news....

Top story: OUTRAGE at 2.00 a gal gas!!

 

[BruiserBrody]

 

[King Kamala]

I just remembered Superstar USA, The WB's super mean spirited American Idol parody, which seemed cruel even by '00s pop culture standards.

Very uncharacteristic for WB but the only networks I could see this fitting on are Comedy Central and FOX (which wouldn't cause they aired the actual American Idol)

And yes, teenage King Kamala did watch every episode of this garbage.

 

[King Kamala]

Nothing to see here.

 

[BUTT]

I know Kamala threads have a wide purview but I have no idea what the Sally Jessy show has to do with any of the networks this thread pertains to. Oh wait, she did make some cameo appearances on the Surreal Life but I don't remember if that was in the WB era or if it was after the show moved to VH1. (Fake edit: She did appear in one episode of the WB run.) But there must be a daytime talk trash thread to post in.

 

[King Kamala]

Moving on.

 

[King Kamala]

A Fortune Teller Warned Lucy Lawless Not to Appear on Jay Leno

Heck, WE could have warned her

www.cracked.com

Comedy nerds: anyone could have told you not to appear on Jay Leno.

I remember Bruce Campbell writing in his book about having to take lead on a few episodes last minute but Idk the circumstances which required to set that up.

 

[King Kamala]

It was no Platypus Man.

 

[Epic Springs]

Tried watching Charmed for the first time ever. It has it moments but overall isn't as strong ad a show as Buffy or Angel. I know Shannon Doherty leaves the show eventually and is replaced by Rose McGowan. I think he need an entire thread on Doherty being impossible to work with. Getting fired from two hit network shows is certainly something.

 

[Valeyard]

I just remember at the time only caring because it had three beautiful women living together and that I was a teenager.

 

[Epic Springs]

Somehow made it to season 3 of Charmed by half-watching/playing in the background while I work. Dave Navarro and Robert Englund show up in he same episode.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Figured this WB schedule would probably send Kamala (and Epic?) down a rabbit hole. I want to say Baby Blues was the animated show spun off the newspaper comic strip in a time when TV networks were trying to throw any animated show at the wall to see what could stick in an effort to do their own FOX style 'Animation' window.

I vaguely remember The Jamie Foxx Show & Steve Harvey Show getting a lot of push from the network too. Safe Harbor looks like it only ran for 11 episodes but had Rue McClanahan(!)

I never realized The WB took Sister, Sister from ABC in 1995 but that show was huge. Looking back, The WB had a lot of black TV shows catering to that demographic. I remember The Smart Guy more for it being the vehicle for the Mowry sisters' younger brother.

 

[Epic Springs]

Oh man, I remember Jack & Jill. The twist? Jack is the girl and Jill is the boy.

 

[King Kamala]

I forgot The PJs moved to WB. I knew it left FOX and aired on another network but I thought it was UPN.

Considering how white most of the shows they built their reputation on were, it is kind of surprising that WB was trying to compete with UPN and Fox to win over the black audience.

 

[Hawk 34]

Figured this WB schedule would probably send Kamala (and Epic?) down a rabbit hole. I want to say Baby Blues was the animated show spun off the newspaper comic strip in a time when TV networks were trying to throw any animated show at the wall to see what could stick in an effort to do their own FOX style 'Animation' window.

I vaguely remember The Jamie Foxx Show & Steve Harvey Show getting a lot of push from the network too. Safe Harbor looks like it only ran for 11 episodes but had Rue McClanahan(!)

I never realized The WB took Sister, Sister from ABC in 1995 but that show was huge. Looking back, The WB had a lot of black TV shows catering to that demographic. I remember The Smart Guy more for it being the vehicle for the Mowry sisters' younger brother.

The best part of the pandemic was that Sister Sister had a big revival on streaming to the point they were working on a reboot but the one sister didn’t wanna do it.