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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal popular culture writer
Published on Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008
The WB Is Back — Online. Programming from the old WB network (which was folded with UPN into what is now The CW) and other parts of the Warner Bros. empire is available online at 2 p.m. today at TheWB.com (http://www.thewb.com).
The site will have complete episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Everwood, Friends, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., One Tree Hill, Roswell, Smallville, Veronica Mars, Babylon 5 and Angel, among other shows.
But you may get pot luck when it comes to individual episodes. I asked a site rep about complete seasons versus selected shows and got this answer: ''There is no set formula for which episodes will be available or how much of a season will be up at a time. Each series will have a set of episodes available to view which will change every Monday. This way, there will always be new content up every week and keep people coming back for more.''
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More TheWB.com. The site has also acquired other programming, such as the Australian teen drama Blue Water High, and Whatever Hollywood, which consists of comedy sketches and music. Aside from Blue Water High, in which episodes run about half an hour, the currently planned original series are shorter pieces, less than 10 minutes per episode.
The site is free to view, but there will be limited commercials with shows. Still, when I checked out a preview version of the site on Tuesday, it was nice to pull up the first episode of Veronica Mars — without having to unearth my DVD of it.
According to an announcement of the site, ''TheWB.com will feature state-of-the-art community and social networking tools as well as editing and mixing capabilities that allow visitors to take ownership of their favorite characters and relationships. Viewers can control, customize, reorder, re-edit and reinterpret shows in a very personal way.''
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Meet More Browns. Actor-writer-producer-director mogul Tyler Perry, currently on the road promoting his movie The Family That Preys, is also getting deeper into television.
He will use his movie Meet the Browns as the basis for a TV series to air on TBS in January 2009. Ten episodes have been ordered.
David Mann will star as Leroy Brown, who is in Meet the Browns and has been seen in House of Payne, another Perry series for TBS. The new series finds Leroy Brown inheriting a dilapidated house from his father.
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Woo Someone Else. The Woo Me dating Web site appeared to have a high-profile client when it used a picture of Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford next to a line declaring, ''Find guys and girls near you.''
The problem: Crawford's rep told the New York Daily News that the company never asked for permission to use the actor's image — and he is definitely not a rep for the site.
The pic had been taken off the site Tuesday afternoon.
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Shifted Survivor. CBS has moved the season premiere of Survivor (or, more precisely, Survivor: Gabon — Earth's Last Eden from Sept. 18, just ahead of the formal start of the new TV season, to Sept. 25. But there will be two hours on the new date, which CBS says is the first time Survivor has had a two-hour season premiere. It will also be the first time a season has been in high-definition.
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A Painful Loss. Andre Young Jr., 20, the son of producer-musician Dr. Dre, died in his California home over the weekend, People.com reports.
''Young's mother told police that she attempted to rouse her son at 10:24 a.m. on Saturday, and when she couldn't, she called paramedics,'' the site said. ''They pronounced him dead at the scene.''
An autopsy was performed. Foul play is not suspected.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://www.ohio.com. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
The WB Is Back — Online. Programming from the old WB network (which was folded with UPN into what is now The CW) and other parts of the Warner Bros. empire is available online at 2 p.m. today at TheWB.com (http://www.thewb.com).
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