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UPN Striking Early With September ENT Premiere; Spike TV Set for August 11th

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Posted: 19:36:37 on July 22 2003
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | stenterprise.com

UPN released its 2003 fall schedule today, announcing that the network will try to get a jump on the rest of the season's new programming with an early start. Beginning Wednesday, September 10th, UPN will premiere its new schedule through September 16th according to Zap2it. This puts the ENTERPRISE third season premiere, "The Xindi," on September 10th at 8 o'clock followed by the series premiere of JAKE 2.0.

This will be the earliest ENTERPRISE premiere, with "Broken Bow" bowing September 26th, 2001 and "Shockwave, Part II" airing on September 18th, 2002. Producer Rick Berman last year suggested that the early start may have hurt ratings for the season two premiere, but the performance apparently hasn't scared the network away from an even earlier preemptive strike this season.

For UPN's complete premiere week schedule, check out this page.

In related news, Viacom has announced today that TNN will officially make the switch to Spike TV on August 11, according to an article at ProWrestling.com.

Viacom announced today that it would debut the new station on a Monday since that's the best day for a targeted audience to get the word out. Spike TV is nearly two months late due to the injunction brought about at the 11th hour by director Spike Lee just before its debut in June. Lee and Viacom recently settled their dispute, allowing TNN to officially change its name to Spike TV.

Spike TV will premiere with a party taped at the Playboy Mansion featuring Pamela Anderson and a 2-hour WWE special.

The official website SpikeTV.com is now back online, though it still re-directs to TheNewTNN.com.

TNN has been the home of reruns of THE NEXT GENERATION and some of the STAR TREK feature films, and will be the home of reruns of DEEP SPACE NINE in 2004 and VOYAGER in 2006, according to the original plans.

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Season Three (2003-2004)

Prod #	Title	Airdate
153	The Xindi	09/10/03
154	Anomaly	09/17/03
155	Extinction	09/24/03
156	Enemy Advances	10/01/03
Season Two (2002-2003)
Season One (2001-2002)

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This is the last year of Star Trek
By Deslok ( hammond_ecks@hotmail.com) at 03:17:00 on July 23 2003
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This move tells me that Viacom has less faith in this show than it did last year. Berman and Co. have burned their last bridge, this move is a signal to the employees of the TREK franchise that they can go home early this year.

Let me put it this way...

Earlier start = less viewers at the start of the season,
this will justify the impending cancellation of the series. Sorry Bakula and cast, it wasn't really your fault. Imagine what ENTERPRISE could have been, it would have been GREAT!

It's a no-win scenario.

Another sign that the show is in hot water was that campaign to put an ad in the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER telling the cast and crew that the fans really do love ENTERPRISE.

It's over, this is looking more and more like it's ENT's last year. I don't know what may come next, but even an extra long hiatus would be better than Star Trek treated like a substandard concept because of substandard direction.

The Xindi arc is the last chance for ENT to prove itself. Who knows, they might just do it, but there will have to be some major changes in the way the show is presented and stylized.

Getting rid of the theme song to ENT would be a great place to start.

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Didn't learn their lesson.
By Scorned ( Noway@thanksbutno.com) at 00:08:11 on July 23 2003
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Quote:" Producer Rick Berman last year suggested that the early start may have hurt ratings for the season two premiere, but the performance apparently hasn't scared the network away from an even earlier preemptive strike this season."

If you feel it hurt the previous two seasons, then why do it again for the 3rd? Is this not the "do or die" season? More dumb drunk monkey logic by Berman the people running Trek!

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All release dates are a function of... by prometheus 59650 @ 10:07:49 ET on 23 Jul
RE: Didn't learn their lesson. by Noraa @ 05:31:10 ET on 23 Jul
RE: Didn't learn their lesson. by Trekker121 @ 00:53:26 ET on 23 Jul