From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #50 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Friday, March 23 2001 Volume 03 : Number 050 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/ny daily news article [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:12:23 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: b/ny daily news article Hi! David replied: >This (and the follow-ups) are all very interesting; thanks. Though all I >really care about, besides preserving the quality of the show, is that it >not go to cable. I don't subscribe to cable, and not even BTVS would be >worth paying cable subscription prices for, not while I can get broadcast >tv at all. I don't think there's much of a chance of that. The only outlets anyone has ever mentioned in conjunction with the show are broadcast networks. Personally, if it has to move from the WB, I'd prefer it go to Fox. I can quite easily see Fox doing a "grrls kick ass" night, pairing _Buffy_ with _Dark Angel_ on Tuesdays. Hell, *I'd* tune in. Here's the latest: ============================ Thursday March 22 1:33 AM ET UPN makes bid for ``Buffy'' By Josef Adalian and Michael Schneider HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - UPN, the network best known for its ''WWF Smackdown'' wrestling series, has stepped up its efforts to steal ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer (news - Y! TV)'' from the WB. UPN has been interested in the 20th Century Fox Television skein for awhile, and made the studio aware of its intentions. But now with the WB's exclusive negotiating window expired, insiders say UPN has stepped up by putting what one insider called ``a significant offer'' on the table. UPN is still considered a longshot to land the series. The WB is also still in active talks with 20th, and may have upped its early offer of $1.6 million per episode. 20th could also sell the series to sister network Fox. In any case, insiders say a deal is getting closer. Reuters/Variety REUTERS ======================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= ***!!!GO UCONN!!!*** ======================================= http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #50 ****************************