The new UPN network will shift emphasis and go for laughs next season. Throughout its brief history, UPN has been dominated by dramas, including this past season when it opened with all hourlong shows ...

Lineup changes: UPN introduces a new show and adds an NBC reject Tuesday night. Both are comedies. Allegedly. “Moesha” (7 p.m., WPWR-Ch. 50) stars double Grammy Award nominee Brandy Norwood as a ...

Sifting through the fall primetime programming announcements made recently by the nation’s fifth and sixth TV networks, the big news is that WB is adding a third night of programming to match UPN, ...

Like Little Engines That Could (but not necessarily will), the littlest self-described networks Paramount’s UPN and WB from Warner Bros. keep plugging along, and this season they’re plugging along ...

While making a recent episode of UPN’s The Sentinel, Richard Burgi cut his hand and needed four stitches. “It wasn’t a glamorous shot or anything. I was trying to rub dirt on my shoes, and there was ...

UPN continues getting the jump on the competition, with premieres of two of its more popular returning series. “The Sentinel” (8 p.m.-9 p.m., WNUV, Channel 54) — What happens when a guy with ...

The fledgling UPN network, like its upstart competitor WB, is targeting ethnic family audiences next fall. Hoping to capitalize on the growing popularity of its sitcom Moesha, starring ...

Vet programmer Kim Fleary has returned to the network world, joining UPN as the weblet’s senior vice president of comedy development. Fleary, who starts today, will oversee the creation of all the net ...

Your heart has to go out to poor UPN. Okay, maybe not your heart. But since striking its deal with the Devil two years ago for “WWF Smackdown” wrestling, UPN has been tromping happily across the TV ...