"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" won't be the only show moving from the WB to UPN in the fall — the latter network has picked up "Roswell" after the former network canceled it earlier this week.
"Roswell" is produced by the Fox television studios, which got into a nasty battle with the WB over renewal of "Buffy." Fox is also purchasing UPN-affiliated stations in many of the nation's biggest TV markets.
Basically, the WB had no reason to keep the low-rated "Roswell" on its schedule, given its fractured relationship with Fox; UPN does have a reason to build on its growing relationship with Fox.
Other than the two shows moving over from the WB, UPN is adding only two new series:
Enterprise (Wednesdays, 7 p.m.) is the latest entry in the franchise — the fifth series, following directly in the footsteps of the show on which UPN was launched, "Voyager" — and the first that doesn't include the words "Star Trek" in the title. Scott Bakula ("Quantum Leap") plays the captain on the new show, which is a prequel to all of the other "Trek" series — he captains a 22nd-century starship Enterprise, a century before the original series and two centuries before "Next Generation," "Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager."
One on One (Mondays, 7:30 p.m.) is a sitcom about a precocious 13-year-old girl who comes to live with her single father.
UPN also announced the pickup of The Dead Zone, an hourlong sci-fi drama based on the movie of the same name (and adapted from Stephen King's novel of the same name).
Among the shows UPN canceled are the long-running sitcom "Moesha," "7 Days," "Freedom," "Gary and Mike," "Level 9" and "All Souls."
PAX: The so-called seventh network continues to program largely reruns but is attempting to come up with at least one original series per night.
Repeats of "Touched by an Angel" and "Diagnosis Murder" augment a prime-time schedule that includes a couple of new shows. And Pax, which is partly owned by NBC, will begin airing reruns of that network's quiz show "Weakest Link" in June and reruns of NBC's drama "Crossing Jordan" in January 2002. (The latter show debuts on the parent network in the fall.)
Pax's new series are:
Ponderosa (Saturdays, 7 p.m., and Sundays, 8 p.m.), a prequel to the long-running Western "Bonanza" that "chronicles the early years of widower Ben Cartwright and his three young sons." From the producer of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."
Forbidden Secrets (Mondays, 7 p.m.) is a "documentary-style" program that "addresses topics from the worlds of pop culture, money, mysticism and government." Lee Majors hosts.
The network wannabe has also announced a slate of original TV movies and specials that will air as the "Pax Big Event" on Fridays.
And Pax also announced one midseason show — Left Behind, a science-fiction series based on the bestselling books, will begin airing on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. in January.
Among the shows Pax canceled are "Encounters with the Unexplained," "Miracle Pets" and "Twice in a Lifetime."
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