Anthonynotes
08-27-2001, 12:34 AM
Well, looking up an online TV listings schedule for my local WB affiliate (WTTV-4, Bloomington-Indianapolis) reveals that Bullwinkle *is* surviving the change (woo-hoo!). The replacement shows for the now-departed KWB lineup include:
6:30 AM: Bullwinkle
7 AM: "City Guys" (description as follows, copied from the TV listing):
City Guys - New Kids
Type: Syndicated / Sitcom
Duration: 30 min
Description: Two teens, Jamal and Chris (Wesley Jonathan, Scott Whyte), develop a friendship but end up in trouble. (In Stereo)
Performers: Dion Basco, Steven Daniel, Marissa Dyan, Wesley Jonathan, Marcella Lowery, Caitlin Mowrey, Scott Whyte
Parental Rating: TV-Y7
Airing:
Mon 9/3/01 7:00am
No idea who makes this show or where it came from (sounds like an NBC show), but it's fulfilling the local affiliate's E/I requirement. To explain, the E/I requirement is one made of each individual *station* rather than the network, but since most affiliates don't want to be bothered with finding such shows to air, they've been letting their parent network do the work. Now that KWB morning shows are no more, the stations are apparently going to have to find their own E/I stuff to air 2.5 hours of the 3-hour requirement ("Rescue Heroes"' once a week airing on KWB would satisfy the final half-hour *and* allow the WB to claim they're "serving children's educational needs" in some clearly superficial way...).
Anyway, airing after this show at 7:30 will be reruns of "Sister, Sister"....interesting that another WB show was chosen to take up the programming slack (and that WTTV didn't take the easy way out and air infomercials/lame cartoons like they did years ago with that "Tex Avery" show)...and that they're keeping the Moose and Squirrel around! :-)
Meanwhile, over on the Disney side of things, looks like Disney's going the live-action route this fall for ABC with two Disney Channel imports:
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/networkupdate.html?19128
Apparently getting the boot are the "Sabrina" animated series (without the parent show on ABC anymore, guess they don't need it anymore), "Doug" (moving to the Disney Channel IIRC; old age? It has been on the tube for about 10 years now...), and "Buzz Lightyear" (relegated to the UPN "One Too" weekday afternoon lineup; maybe it was considered too violent for ABC's Sat. morning lineup...dunno about what's in store for "One, Too" this fall for that matter [probably the same lineup as now]...).
"House of Mouse" (with new episodes) is staying on, though with its current timeslot unchanged, it'll probably get pre-empted mucho times this fall due to college football...
-B.
6:30 AM: Bullwinkle
7 AM: "City Guys" (description as follows, copied from the TV listing):
City Guys - New Kids
Type: Syndicated / Sitcom
Duration: 30 min
Description: Two teens, Jamal and Chris (Wesley Jonathan, Scott Whyte), develop a friendship but end up in trouble. (In Stereo)
Performers: Dion Basco, Steven Daniel, Marissa Dyan, Wesley Jonathan, Marcella Lowery, Caitlin Mowrey, Scott Whyte
Parental Rating: TV-Y7
Airing:
Mon 9/3/01 7:00am
No idea who makes this show or where it came from (sounds like an NBC show), but it's fulfilling the local affiliate's E/I requirement. To explain, the E/I requirement is one made of each individual *station* rather than the network, but since most affiliates don't want to be bothered with finding such shows to air, they've been letting their parent network do the work. Now that KWB morning shows are no more, the stations are apparently going to have to find their own E/I stuff to air 2.5 hours of the 3-hour requirement ("Rescue Heroes"' once a week airing on KWB would satisfy the final half-hour *and* allow the WB to claim they're "serving children's educational needs" in some clearly superficial way...).
Anyway, airing after this show at 7:30 will be reruns of "Sister, Sister"....interesting that another WB show was chosen to take up the programming slack (and that WTTV didn't take the easy way out and air infomercials/lame cartoons like they did years ago with that "Tex Avery" show)...and that they're keeping the Moose and Squirrel around! :-)
Meanwhile, over on the Disney side of things, looks like Disney's going the live-action route this fall for ABC with two Disney Channel imports:
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/networkupdate.html?19128
Apparently getting the boot are the "Sabrina" animated series (without the parent show on ABC anymore, guess they don't need it anymore), "Doug" (moving to the Disney Channel IIRC; old age? It has been on the tube for about 10 years now...), and "Buzz Lightyear" (relegated to the UPN "One Too" weekday afternoon lineup; maybe it was considered too violent for ABC's Sat. morning lineup...dunno about what's in store for "One, Too" this fall for that matter [probably the same lineup as now]...).
"House of Mouse" (with new episodes) is staying on, though with its current timeslot unchanged, it'll probably get pre-empted mucho times this fall due to college football...
-B.