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)

I was rather fond of much of their programming, and will miss them. I know most of them are going to CW, but it won't be the same. And the classic Kids WB line up will never be matched for a long time (when they had Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, MIB, and Bruce Timm's Superman and Batman cartoons, plus a lot of other stuff that was fun). I am bummed they never became a full fledged network the way Fox did.

It's UPN I won't miss at all.

Shit, I LOVED Shasta McNasty!

(what does that say about me?)

There's one joke I still remember from an episode - one of the characters nearly got into a fight/argument (don't recall which) with a dyslexic person, who called him 'holeass'...I found it funny.

Mini me (Verne Troyer) got too much of the focus on that show though, and of course Carmine Giovanazzo is now on CSI: NY.

Another WB show I loved was "Off Centre"...

Good riddance to bad blood, I say!

Sorry, but I didn't really dig anything on this channel save for a random episode of Creek once in a blue moon.

What's replacing it?

WB/UPN v 2.0. Nothing you would be interested in as I think the focus is still going to be pretty close to what those channels were before.

I wonder with UPN channels going away are we going to see the return of first run syndicated shows?

I'm moving Sept 17 back into the dorms, but thank goodness for tivo!

Glad to know ANGEL will be a part of the final line-up of pilot rebroadcasts.

Instead of showing the pilots for Buffy and Angel (Welcome the Hellmouth/The Harvest, City of...), I'd rather see the WB play Not Fade Away (the Angel series finale), The Gift (the final WB episode of Buffy), and Chosen (the Buffy series finale), but I'm assuming Fox would want the shows to get promoted with the pilots since they are some of their better selling TV on DVD titles.

I don't think so, if the whole mynetworktv concept catches on. If it fails, I think it's possible you might see somebody try syndication. I wonder if it won't be more along the lines of additional syndicated gameshows or maybe even sitcoms. It seems to me that there probably isn't as much unmet demand for sci-fi/fantasy as there was back in the last heyday of syndication.

I'm excited to see City Of for nostalgia's sake - recalling its October 1999 airing, and if they indeed air old promos for these shows, I'd love to see some ANGEL ones from then - I have several on Video CDs, but seeing them on TV will be fun.

I'm curious to see if Buffy or Angel gets aired in HD. I know the later seasons of Angel were filmed this way, but all the shows were shot on film so an upconversion is technically possible.

Funny that I never watched this network back in the day, but I'm now a WB whore like my wife. Angel is my #2 favorite show, Buffy was great (top 10), ditto for Dawson's Creek, I was enjoying a bit of Everwood.

All of it watched on DVD though, never the actual channel. Still, hopefully the new network can pull together some good quality shows.

That's all MyTV is - a glorified 2-hour syndication package, being passed off as a network. FOX's original plans with those English-language telenovelas they're airing on MyTV were to offer them in first-run syndication this fall. But when the WB/UPN/CW thing was announced and FOX decided to start MyTV, they decided to put the shows on that "network," instead of syndicating them.

But they're essentially still just syndicating them - just giving stations a "network brand" in the process.

I love the WB. Buffy, Angel, Popular, Roswell, Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, Smallville, Supernatural, Charmed, One Tree Hill, Glory Days, Grosse Pointe, Young Americans, My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star and Popstars (before there was American Idol).

I also loved the promos w/ the music - looked forward to them, even.

As for UPN, I love Veronica Mars, America's Next Top Model and Jake 2.0...and of course, they finished out Buffy and Roswell for us.

Here's hoping the CW lives up to its predecessors.

I got to Buffy/Angel through DVD so I was late to these. Is there anywhere to find old promos from these shows? I'd like to see how they teased their shows.