Smackdown CANCELLED by the CW!?

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

MyNetworkTV Plans to Lay the SmackDown

Hold on to your spandex! World Wrestling Entertainment will be bringing their wrestlers to MyNetworkTV in fall 2008.

The general entertainment network will become the exclusive prime-time broadcasting home for WWE SmackDown, a weekly, two-hour program featuring the blood, sweat and cleavage of all the WWE's top superstars. SmackDown has become one of the most highly watched programs on broadcast television among men during its nine-year existence, previously airing on UPN and the CW as Friday Night SmackDown!

The WWE reaches 16 million viewers weekly with Smackdown and two other cable shows, Monday Night Raw on USA Network and ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling on the SciFi Channel.

I figured it would be MyNetwork. I still don't know exactly who they are, but they seem to comprise the leftover stations that were dropped when UPN and WB merged to make CW. They show lots of syndicated shows and reruns and not-so-new movies. Now they'll actually have a show that generates ratings.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Just going by the name they sound like a major step down.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Yeah, it's a low-rent network. And, as it turns out, Fox owns it. Once again Fox is trying to circumvent FCC laws about station ownership on American TV. What a shock.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Oh Fox!

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

RPERT MURDOCH IS LIKE PALPATINE WITHOUT THE COOL ROBE.