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The following is a list of programs broadcast by The WB. Some programs were carried over to The CW, a network formed through a partnership between WB parent company Time Warner and UPN corporate parent CBS Corporation, in September 2006 following the closure of The WB. Titles are listed in alphabetical order followed by the year of debut in ...
41 11. 87 Videos. 99+ Photos. Drama Mystery Sci-Fi. At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence. Creators. Lisa Joy. Jonathan Nolan. Stars. Evan Rachel Wood. Jeffrey Wright. Ed Harris. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $17.92.
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Westworld is an American dystopian science fiction Western television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy that first aired on October 2, 2016, on HBO. It is based upon the 1973 film of the same name written and directed by Michael Crichton and loosely upon its 1976 sequel, Futureworld .
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1993–1995: Origins
Much like its competitor UPN, The WB was created primarily in reaction to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s then-recent deregulation of media ownership rules that repealed the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules, and partly due to the failure of the Fox network (which debuted in October 1986) and first-run syndicated programming during the late 1980s and early 1990s (such as Baywatch, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and War of the Worlds), as well as the erosion in ratings su...
1995–1997: Beginnings
The WB Television Network launched on January 11, 1995, with the debut airing of the first episode of The Wayans Bros. (a sitcom starring comedians Shawn and Marlon Wayans) as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the network's official mascot (with animator Chuck Jones, in person, drawing him out after Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duckargued about who should launch The WB during the network's premiere), and would remain as part of the netwo...
1997–2000: Courting the teen market
The WB first had success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a series based on the 1992 film of the same name) which became a hit with critics when it premiered as a mid-season replacementin March 1997. The series debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the network's history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. Inspired by Buffy's success, The WB intentionally shifted the focus of its programming, trying to capture what it perceived to be a heavily fragme...
Much, though not all, of The WB's programming during its eleven-year run as a television network was produced by corporate cousin Warner Bros. Television. The network's schedule during its first two seasons – the 1995 midseason (when it inaugurated its initial Wednesday lineup) and the first half of the 1995–96 season (when the network expanded its...
Scheduling
At the time of its shutdown, The WB ran only two hours of primetime network programming on Monday through Fridays and five hours on Sundays, compared to the three Monday through Saturday and four Sunday primetime hours offered by the Big Three networks (unlike The WB, UPN never carried any weekend primetime programming, though it did offer a movie package to its affiliates on weekend afternoons until September 2000, when the latter was replaced with a two-hour repeat block of UPN programs). T...
Affiliate distribution
The WB was the only English language broadcast network that historically did not have any owned-and-operated stations. Although Tribune Broadcasting maintained an ownership stake in The WB, its stations in the three largest television markets of New York City (WPIX), Los Angeles (KTLA) and Chicago (WGN-TV) were affiliates of the network since Tribune did not have a controlling ownership interest in the network to allow its stations to be constituted as O&Os (by 2005, Tribune owned 22.5% of th...
News programming
News programming on The WB's affiliates was similar to Fox stations at the time in that the quantity of newscasts varied from station to station. Roughly half of The WB's approximately 200 affiliates aired a local newscast in the 10:00–11:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific (9:00–10:00 p.m. Central/Mountain) time slot at some point during or throughout their affiliations with the network. Fundamentally, the newscast schedules on WB affiliates varied considerably between stations compared to those affilia...
In 2005, The WB had an estimated audience reach of 91.66% of all U.S. households (equivalent to 90,282,480 households with at least one television set); the network was carried by 177 VHF and UHF stations in the United States. The WB was also available in Canada on cable and satellite providers through affiliates that are located within proximity t...
2017 was the 8th year of 2010's January 13 - Live by Night (Warner Bros.) (wide release) February 10 - The Lego Batman Movie (Warner Bros./Warner Animation Group/DC Comics) February 13 - Fist Fight (Warner Bros./New Line Cinema) (Regency Village Theater) February 17 - Fist Fight (Warner Bros./New Line Cinema) February 24 - Kanavu Variyam (Warner Bros. Pictures International) (released in India ...
Baby Blues (American TV series) Batman Beyond. The Batman (TV series) Beauty and the Geek (American TV series) The Bedford Diaries. Birds of Prey (TV series) Black Sash (TV series) Blue Collar TV. Brats of the Lost Nebula.
Jan 11, 2024 · Almost 30 Years Later, The WB Remains One of TV’s Greatest Experiments. There are few things more iconic than the teen drama. Star-crossed lovers, jocks vs preps, Friday night football games ...
