Cuts

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Desperate to fill space in its lineup after the disastrous failure of its latest sitcom, but unable to afford even the most rudimentary of reality shows, UPN launched a bold experiment in timeslot-filling with Cuts, a half-hour montage of footage trimmed from other UPN shows to help them meet their respective running times.

The network attempted to claim that the cobbled-together footage actually had a plot, in which a crew of Starfleet officers' ongoing war with a barbaric race of professional wrestlers was commented upon, Greek-chorus style, by a rotating cast of wise, sassy, independent African-American women. Though critics hailed Cuts as a masterpiece of Eisenstein-like surrealist montage, audiences failed to like UPN's programming any better in amalgamated form than they had individually, and it was quickly and mercifully cancelled.