Redpill me about UPN. Why did it fail?
>>219186923It didn't play Home Improvement enough.
Homeboys in Outer Space was better Trek than nu-Trekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vE3PZ_hg2A
Didn’t give Home Movies the chance it deserved.
>>219186923cause BET won
>>219187096A show about space normies doing the futuristic version of minimum wagie work and the shit they have to deal with is unironically an interesting concept that I wish we saw more of
Because they canceled Shasta McNasty
>>219186923It just turned into the CW.
if Clerks TAS would have been on UPN instead of ABC, they could have paired it with the Dilbert cartoon and gotten some synergy goingthey both would have run at least a little longer
>>219187405Futurama was about a delivery company
>>219190353It was more than that retard Jesus Christ is this site nothing but low IQ people pulling the most retarded whataboutisms?
>>219190460Reddit does that all the time
>>219190460u mad
>>219190568they ruined this site>>219190623kys low IQ faggot European
>>219186923Back in the 90s we used to joke that UPN stands for Under Paid Niggers.
>>219186923Competed with five other major networks that all had a smattering of hit shows, three of which (CBS, NBC, ABC) were practically legacy networks with history behind themThe few good shows (Dilbert, Home Movies) got short runs, giving the network a band rep as a place that cancels good showsAnd yeah, too nog focused. How do expect to build a network that caters to 12% of the population, and it's ghetto nog shit to boot?>>219190780I remember Mad TV made the same joke.
UPN was Paramount's attempt at a new network after the success of Fox. It launched around the same time as The WB, Warner Bros' attempt at a new broadcast network. Neither had enough juice to become the 5th major network.Eventually Paramount and CBS got back together, so UPN wasn't really needed, and UPN and the WB merged to form The CW, which provided cult kino for teens. The CW was joint owned between Paramount and Warner Bros, but is now independent.
>>219190568Reddit does that because it’s full of midwits who think pointing out the most surface-level overlap is a slam dunk rebuttal.“uhh actually Futurama was about deliveries ”Yeah and The Sopranos is about waste management. You can reduce anything to its setting if you’re socially stunted enough. The other guy’s point was about blue-collar-in-space being the *focus*, not just the backdrop for high-concept sci‑fi.This is why UPN failed btw. They were aiming at niche angles before audiences were trained to basedface over “mundane but in space.” If Homeboys in Outer Space dropped on streaming today Reddit would call it underrated gem kino and write essays about proletariat Afrofuturism or some shit.
>>219190726Make me~ ;3
