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08.18.2009 10:28 am

‘The Unit,’ ‘5th Grader’ on MyNetworkTV this fall

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Has MyNetworkTV (WRBU, Channel 46) picked up “The Unit”? No, and yes. Fans of the drama, canceled by CBS, have taken hope from promos on WRBU (Channel 7 on Charter), but the episodes of “The Unit” that will air Wednesday nights this fall aren’t new ones; they are repeats from CBS.

Along with back-to-back “Unit” repeats this fall, MyNetworkTV will air the new syndicated “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” (also on KTVI, Channel 2) and the syndicated version of “Deal or No Deal.” Two episodes of each will create a “game night” on Tuesdays.

MyNetworkTV, owned by NewsCorp, was created in 2006 to provide prime-time programming to stations left without a network after the WB and UPN merged to form the CW. The first season featured “telenovelas,” limited-run soap operas, from 7-9 p.m. That strategy failed, and at this point MyNetworkTV amounts to a package of syndicated shows, including “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” repeats on Mondays, movies on Thursdays and “WWE Friday Night SmackDown” on Fridays.

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It is hard to believe that the merger of UPN & WB has left us with a worse CW. There isn’t enough quality programming leftover for WRBU. It might as well be channel 446 as much as I watch it. It’s not MY anything.

— MoDuke
3:11 pm August 18th, 2009