Goodbye The WB
 

Sicne the WB is going off the air this Septmeber (August?), I was just wondering if they are going to do anything special like a clip-show or documentary or something like that, there last night before they sign off forever?

Highly doubtful, since most of the CW stations will be ex-WB stations. It isn't like they're totally going away.

It still would be nice to see a retrospective special of their past shows since they started to air. Isn't this the first time a network like this (not a cable channel, but regular network) closed up shop? And the same with UPN. CW is not, as far as I am concerned, WB or UPN. It's CW, a whole new ballgame.

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Pretty cool info. Thanks! Of course if that network ended it's broadcast with one final retrospective, most of us were not around to watch it!

Needless to say, this is a rare occurance.

That is what I was thinking it would be really cool to see something like this, sort of a 'thank you to the fans and such' and I'm sure a bunch of actors/producers could get into it and stuff...


This is an extremely rare occurance, I'm still not sure if its an 'awesome' occurance or not, time will only tell there...

Ya except it'd probably cost a lot of money to get actors and producers involved. They don't work for free...

Do actors get paid to say a few memories of the shows?


Even if they got some actor to host a show and show clips, it would be cool to see shows from long ago that 99% of people have totally forgotten about.

Or they could do like some shows do and use past interview footage. And I don't think the going rate for just some interview would be that prohibitively high, unless they wanted to interview some egotistical diva.

Sunday September 17th will be the last day of The WB network.

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The WB will say good-bye by rebroadcasting the pilots of some of it's signature shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Felicity, and Dawson's Creek.

--From Variety

Here's a question:

Will any of you miss it?

The current WB? Not really, but I was very fond of the channel. It came on when I was in my teens so the programming was pretty perfect for me. I loved all that teenage soap opera shit. Dawson's Creek, Buffy and Angel, Felicity for a while, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Roswell, Young Americans, Smallville, early 7th Heaven, and Popular were all shows I enjoyed. I bet there are more I'm forgetting.

Plus I really loved those campaigns they would do with all the various stars of the shows dancing around on some studio stage set to some pop music. They were kind of cheesy, but I dunno...they worked for me. The WB did these types of promos better than anyone else. This one is my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1W8i...rch=crawl%20wb

Same here, big Smallville and Creek fan. lesser Roswell and Buffy fan.

Those shows alone are good enough for me to like the network.

When UPN dies, will they replay the pilot for Homeboys in Outer Space?

I'm sort of the same way - I hated the fact that "Young Americans" didn't have a second season, especially when it was looking more and more like it would...I also loved "Roswell", and caught the first and last seasons of the Creek (saw the rest on TBS) along with other short-lived shows "Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane", "Movie Stars", and the very short-lived "Dead Last" and "Brutally Normal".

ANGEL and Everwood really burned me though, and that outweighs my prior love for this network.

I also enjoyed those WB promos.

Same here. I loved the old WB. I was all of the drama shows back then when I was younger.
The WB now, all the shows I watch are getting carried over to the CW, so no big deal now.

I also enjoyed the promos back then.

Jack & Bobby
Everwood
Smallville

I just finished Roswell on DVD. Great ending.

Not a big fan of Charmed, but I catch it in reruns quite often.

It had the two greatest series ever in Buffy & Angel so I'm pretty fond of them even though they royally pissed me and every Angel fan off with the premature cancellation. Which of course caused all of us to miss out on the futher development of one of the best characters ever, Illyria. The next season would've been incredible based on what I read.

Aside from those two tv masterpieces Roswell was pretty good (I think I've only seen season 1 though. A bit more soap operish than a generally like), thought not nearly at the same level as Buffy & Angel. Smallville is good overall, but incredibly flawed. I think that's pretty much all I've really watched on their station. Nothing has come remotely close to Buffy and Angel as a whole, but they've had some decent programming and they mostly stick by their shows, unlike Fox.

tivo is ready!!

WB didnt have single show I ever cared about.

I'm hoping for Platypus Man.

Hell yeah.

The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer!!

I rather liked a lot of WB's shows, and it is a shame because it seems like their kind of show doesn't get made on the major networks (or gets quickly canceled). For example, Buffy would never succeed on an NBC or CBS. Now I suppose those shows can still get made on the CW or whatever network, but the spots are few and the odds are longer.

wheres the love for shasta mcnasty? (sadly, i actually watched that, and liked it, but i didn't know any better back then)