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Here’s the likely new WB sched, as relayed by Monday’s Hollywood Reporter.

"Roswell" is not on the slate, and UPN (rumored to be "eyeing" the sci-fi teen drama) doesn't announce its schedule until Thursday.

(Note also that it looks like Electronic Media got "Angel's" timeslot wrong, "Popular" didn't get a pick-up, and "Felicity" will get her senior year.)

Monday

8:00 7th Heaven

9:00 Angel

Tuesday

8:00 Gilmore Girls

9:00 Smallville

Wednesday

8:00 Dawson’s Creek

9:00 Felicity/Glory Days

Thursday

8:00 Popstars

8:30 Elimidate Deluxe

9:00 Charmed

Friday

8:00 Sabrina

8:30 Maybe I’m Adopted

9:00 Deep in the Heart

9:30 Raising Dad

Sunday

7:00 Lost in the USA

8:30 No Boundries

8:00 Steve Harvey

8:30 Men, Women & Dogs

9:00 Nikki

9:30 Off Centre

The two dramas that did get episode orders, according to the Reporter, are:

* The much-discussed "Smallville," whose pilot just got a mixed Coax review; and

* "Glory Days," an unreviewed drama from "Dawson's Creek" creator Kevin Williamson about a burned-out writer who returns to his hometown.

The Reporter offers few premise details on the WB’s three new reality series, titled "No Boundries," "Elimidate Deluxe" (assumed to be a dating show) and "Lost in the USA." (Should the latter show be confused with the NBC reality series “Lost,” in which contestants must return to New York City after being abandoned at an undisclosed location?)

The five new WB comedy series ordered for the fall, according to the trade paper, are:

* “Deep in the Heart,” with Reba McEntire as the wife of a cheating husand and the mother of a pregnant teen, from writer Allison Gibson (“Home Improvement,” “Boy Meets World”);

* “Maybe I'm Adopted,” about a girl who wonders if he’s really a product of her own eccentric family, from “Frasier” writer Suzanne Martin;

* “Men, Women and Dogs,” about men who get on better with canines than women, from writers Dan Staley & Rob Long (“Cheers,” “George & Leo,” “Love & Money”);

* “Off Centre,” about a young American cohabitating with an Englishman, from Paul and Chris Weitz (“American Pie”); and

* “Raising Dad,” starring Bob Saget as a teacher and single father of two daughters, from writer-producer Jonathan Katz (“Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist”).

“The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star,” a half-hour about a garage band’s rise from writer-producer John Riggi (“The Larry Sanders Show”), got a midseason order.







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