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Felicity and Roswell will be back
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Thanks to roswellfan for sending this in! Felicity and Roswell will be back The Toronto Star WB has renewed both very fine dramas. It has also picked up the campy-and-getting-campier-by-the episode Popular. But whether CTV re-acquires these youth-oriented shows is up in the air. Yesterday, both ABC and WB unveiled their fall schedules and, surprisingly, both webs announced few new shows. Or maybe not surprisingly. ``ABC has pioneered a new strategy - it's the one-program network!'' said Gene DeWitt, chairman of Optimedia International, a media buying firm. ``But it's faddish and will wear out.'' Not that ABC is panicking. Millionaire still beat everything last week except for that Carole Hathaway farewell episode of ER, Frasier and CBS' Jesus. When the sweeps are over, Regis will rise again. ABC announced four new shows: Geena (comedy) - Oscar-winner Geena Davis stars as a glamorous Manhattan career gal who becomes an instant mom when she marries a widower (Peter Horton) with two challenging kids and a hostile housekeeper. Good cast. Lousy premise. Madigan Men (comedy) - Yummy Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) is a newly divorced New York architect. But he's no player with the ladies. That means he must seek dating advice from his cocky teenaged son and his ornery widowed dad. Yeah. Right. Gideon's Crossing (drama) - Homicide: Life On The Street vet Andre Braugher is Dr. Ben Gideon, ``the voice of reason, empathy and wisdom in a world of medical chaos, bureaucracy and hypocrisy.'' This one's from Academy Award-nominated writer Paul Attanasio (Quiz Show) so it just might work - except that it's scheduled opposite NBC's Law & Order. Meanwhile WB's lineup, available to viewers with premium pay TV, got a slight shake-up yesterday. The other pick-up was Eddie Murphy's The PJs, the ``foamation'' look at life in the projects formerly on Fox. Great. The show cleverly satirizes race relations and class in the U.S. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, 7th Heaven, Charmed and Dawson's Creek are all back (whew!), as is the lame Jack & Jill. Hype (comedy) - This sketch show ``skewers all things hyped, setting its sights on popular culture.'' Let's hope. CBS announces its schedule today. |