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...which shall hereafter be known as the "WB Remainder Store," went first, at Madison Square Garden, opening in true Smackdown! fashion with loud music and smoke machines: it was the upfront as Tull concert. It put emphasis first on its second-newest acquisition, the WB's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." "The show that built a network..." the presentation began - was about to rebuild another one! The UPN, which has been a largely minority-aimed network, then a young dudes' network, is now going to become the Young Dudes Who Like to Watch Buffy and The Rock Whup...
...president Dean Valentine thanked the audience of advertisers for making this UPN's biggest upfront turnout ever. Yeah. Just wait 'til next year...
...hell of it is, Fox ended with the funniest damn sitcom trailer I have seen all upfronts. "Greg the Bunny," a "Larry Sanders"-like show about the goings-on backstage at a children's puppet show (with humans and puppets as characters), gave me the only belly laughs I have had at any comedy (that I hadn't already seen) this upfront. Of course, if I were Robert Smigel, whose "TV Funhouse" on Comedy Central is an R-rated, and hilarious, version of the same concept, I'd get me a gun and look to make me some bunny lint...
Apropos of apparently nothing, Blue Man Group opened the festivities at the CBS upfront Wednesday. In sync to the thumping of their little Blue Man drum corps, the paint-faced, ubiquitous performance artists hurled paintballs into each other's mouths, one after another after another, spitting out the paint into brightly colored patterns on white sheets...
...Crossing Jordan." Jill Hennessy plays a feisty coroner likened, as probably half the female drama characters this upfront season will be, to Erin Brockovich. It's hard to judge crime dramas by trailers (and all NBC's new dramas are crime dramas) - they all look simultaneously taut and indistinguishable with their quick-cutting and explosive soundtracks. Problem: Everyone will think it's actually "Gideon's Crossing...