Tag: UPN

Star Trek: Enterprise: These Are The Voyages…

EnterpriseThe 96th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN. Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis reprise their roles in a series finale that proves somewhat controversial within fandom. This is the final Star Trek production with Rick Berman as the executive producer. Read more

UPN, WB to cease broadcasting

UPNWanna-be fifth networks UPN and the WB both announce that they will go off the air in late 2006, after 11 years of struggling to make a dent against the “big four” networks. (Both networks signed on in January 1995, the WB premiering its programming one week before UPN went on the air with the premiere of Star Trek: Voyager; WB later found its own genre niche with the series adaptation of Joss Whedon’s Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and its popular spinoff, Angel, along with the “young Superman” prequel Smallville.) However, some of their programming may survive to be seen on a new joint venture between Warner Bros. and UPN’s parent network, CBS. This new network, The CW, will have programming and personnel held over from both defunct networks. The announcements do not mention how the merger will work out in broadcast markets where affiliate stations exist for both networks.