Twilight Zone Renewed

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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New Line Television has renewed Forest Whitaker’s remake of The Twilight Zone for season two.

The show originally aired on UPN in 2002.

Sunbeam’s WHDH Boston has picked up the show, and Belo stations KTVK/KASW Phoenix, KSHB/KMCI Kansas City and KMSB/KTTU Tucson will run it twice.

Additionally, Belo stations WBNC Cleveland, WKRN Nashville and KING/KONG Seattle all have renewed the show, joining Tribune’s WGNO/WNOL in New Orleans; LIN TV’s KXAN/KNVA in Austin; KSRM/KXTU in Colorado Springs; WNEP in Wilkes Barre/Scranton; WTEN, the ABC affiliate in Albany, NY; and WHEC in Rochester, N.Y.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.