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| Bgcolour | #6BBF7C |
|---|---|
| Show name | Roswell |
| Caption | |
| Show name 2 | Roswell High (US/UK) |
| Genre | Science fiction teen drama |
| Creator | Jason Katims |
| Developer | Jason Katims |
| Starring | Shiri Appleby Jason Behr Katherine Heigl Majandra Delfino Brendan Fehr Nick Wechsler Emilie de Ravin Adam Rodriguez William Sadler |
| Narrated | Shiri Appleby as "Liz Parker" (all through season one and some of season two and three) Majandra Delfino as "Maria DeLuca" (some episodes of season two) |
| Opentheme | "Here with Me" by Dido |
| Composer | Joseph Williams, Will Edwards, Jon Ernst |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Num seasons | 3 |
| Num episodes | 61 |
| List episodes | List of Roswell episodes |
| Executive producer | Jason Katims, Lisa J. Olin, Kevin Kelly Brown, Jonathan Frakes, David Nutter |
| Co exec | Ronald D. Moore, Thania St. John |
| Producer | John Heath, Barry Pullman |
| Co-producer | Tracey D'Arcy, Gretchen J. Berg, Aaron Harberts, Christopher Seitz, Fred Golan, Emily Whitesell, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Lisa Klink |
| Location | |
| Runtime | 42 minutes |
| Channel | The WB (1999–2001) UPN (2001–2002) |
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Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. The series debuted on October 6, 1999 on The WB and moved to UPN for the third season. The last episode aired May 14, 2002. In the United Kingdom, the TV series aired as both Roswell High and Roswell.
The series pilot is based on the Roswell High young adult book series, written by Melinda Metz and edited by Laura J. Burns, who became staff writers for the television series.
In response to the problems the series had with ratings during its first season, The WB ordered the relationship-driven standalone episodes of the early first season to be replaced with more science fiction themes and multi-episode plot arcs. Starting with the second season, veteran science fiction writer Ronald D. Moore was brought in to join Katims as an executive producer and showrunner and to further develop the science fiction elements of the show.
Not all fans responded favorably to the shift to more science fiction-driven storylines during the second season and the ratings continued to disappoint WB, causing the network to finally cancel the show on May 15, 2001, after the show's second season finale, a move widely anticipated due to the sagging ratings. 20th Century Fox (the studio that produced the show) was able to persuade UPN to pick it up for a third season as a package deal when UPN outbid The WB for one of its popular flagship series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. During the 2001 - 2002 television season, Roswell, in its third season, aired directly after Buffy on Tuesday nights on UPN, though it was unable to hold on to the audience Buffy provided as a lead-in. This eventually resulted in the show's cancellation from UPN as well.
# Loose Ends by Greg Cox (June 2001) # No Good Deed by D.A. Stern (October 2001) # Little Green Men by D.W. Smith and K.K. Rusch (April 2002)
# Shades by Mel Odom (September 2002) # Skeletons In The Closet by Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin (November 2002) # Dreamwalk by Paul Ruditis (January 2003) # Quarantine by Laura Burns (March 2003) # A New Beginning by Kevin Ryan (June 2003) # Nightscape by Kevin Ryan (July 2003) # Pursuit by Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin (September 2003) # Turnabout by Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin (November 2003)
Some of the minor differences between the two have to do with character names, descriptions and ages. For example, Shiri Appleby's Liz Parker and Colin Hanks' Alex Whitman from the television series are originally the characters Liz Ortecho and Alex Manes in the books. Alex is also described in the book series as having red hair, but is clearly portrayed by darker haired Hanks on screen. Katherine Heigl's Isabel Evans is a year younger than her brother, Jason Behr's Max Evans, in the books, while they are portrayed as roughly the same age in the television series, with Isabel graduating from high school earlier than her brother and the rest of their classmates. This was perhaps done as Heigl looked slightly older than the rest of the cast by the time the show reached its final season, meant as the character's senior year.
Some other major differences between characters have also greatly influenced the plotlines between the two series as well. In the books, Emilie de Ravin's character of Tess Harding and Jim Ortlieb's Nasedo do not exist at all, while they took on roles of great importance during the last half of the show's first season and onward. In the books, however, there are a greater number of major alien characters from Antar present that never make true appearances on screen. For example, the character of Nikolas Branson is the fourth pod alien in the book series instead of Tess. This character does not get portrayed in the TV series at all, though another sinister alien character named Nicholas Crawford, played by Miko Hughes, is introduced to the show in its second season and could possibly have been meant as a replacement by the show's writers. Other alien characters from the books not seen on screen at all include Adam, a fifth pod alien; Trevor, Michael's brother; Elsevan, an evil alien character; and Ray Iburg, the manager of the UFO Museum who is also secretly an alien (this character also could have at least been partially replaced by Desmond Askew's character of Brody Davis on the show).
The alien characters and storylines are not the only ones that deviate greatly between the books and TV show. Though originally introduced to seem villainous on the show, Sheriff Jim Valenti and his son Kyle Valenti eventually become close allies to the core characters towards the end of the show's first season. However, they remain at odds with one another throughout the book series. Adam Rodríguez's character of Jesse Ramirez, who eventually marries Isabel on the TV show, is also a completely original character for the show and does not appear in the books at all.
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![Roswell 302:Max & Liz kissing in the kitchen [HQ/HD]](http://web.archive.org./web/20110212191057im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zk_Lz_GK7Vg/0.jpg "Roswell 302:Max & Liz kissing in the kitchen [HQ/HD]")
