Nancylee Myatt, a television writer and producer who created NBC’s teen sitcom”Social Studies” and won a Daytime Emmy Award ...
Will “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” relocate again, this time moving up in the world from UPN to CBS? The direct answer from CBS television chief Les Moonves is no, but such questions about UPN are ...
A staple and beloved Black woman-led sitcom of the UPN era, Girlfriends was abruptly canceled by then-nascent network The CW ...
With hit sitcoms like 'Moesha' and 'The Parkers,' the network gave voice to a new generation of Black storytellers and creatives. But a change in strategy ahead of a merger with The WB led to "all ...
Remember UPN, the other “Black network”? UPN wasn’t actually Black owned, but it earned that nickname because it seemingly ruled the mid to late 90s and early 2000s by being the sole network – ...
UPN started out like the WB, having been launched by a former Fox exec (Lucie Salhany), along with a station group hungry for programming (Chris-Craft, whose United Television unit was the “U” in “UPN ...
"Platinum," a UPN series billed as the first network hip-hop drama, is poised to make its debut next month. Hip-hop already is embraced by movies, fashion and any number of other industries _ try ...
Only four days after the debut of UPN’s newest hit drama series, "Platinum," the non-profit national civil rights organization Project Islamic H.O.P.E. (Helping Oppressed People Everywhere) has ...
Two small, struggling television networks, UPN and WB, will merge to form a new network called The CW, executives from the companies that own them said Tuesday. The announcement was made by executives ...
UPN television President Dean Valentine is leaving the company effective immediately, UPN parent Viacom Inc. announced Friday. The move at the top of the fifth-largest broadcast network--which is ...