Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise & Fall of the WB and UPN

Season Finale is an inside chronicle of the entertainment industry following the unexpected rise and fall of the WB and UPN networks.

In the mid-1990s, Hollywood studios Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures each launched their own broadcast television network, hoping to become the fifth player in an industry dominated by ABC, CBS, NBC, and, more recently, Fox. Against all odds, the WB and UPN altered primetime television's landscape, only to merge as the CW in 2006—casualties of conflicting ...