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TV Orders Up Two What-If Shows

  • Mediaweek, Friday, November 18, 2005 12:30 PM
UPN and Fox have each ordered multiple-ending programs for the Fall '06 season, according to Mediaweek. The unique format, in which two concurrent storylines diverge for the purpose of entangling viewers in a series of sticky what-ifs, was used successfully in the 1998 feature film "Sliding Doors." UPN's show, a half-hour dramedy titled "Split Decision," follows a teenage girl who reinvents herself when she enrolls in a new school. Audiences will have an opportunity to see what happens when she hangs out with, alternately, the popular and the artsy crowds. Spelling Television will produce. The UPN offering is "Chicken of Beef?"--about which little is known. It will be produced by Bulls Eye Entertainment.

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