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MNTV started off pretending to be a legit network (some stations even changed their callsigns to reflect their new affiliation), airing [[Foreign Remake|English-language versions]] of popular Latin American ''[[Soap Opera|telenovelas]]'' [[Prime Time Soap|five nights a week]]. Try as they might, nothing could get people to watch these shows — most American viewers saw them as trashy and poorly-made even by the low standards of American [[Soap Opera|Soap Operas]] and worth watching only as [[Snark Bait]], while English-speaking Latino viewers (the target audience for many of these shows) saw them as inferior versions of what they were already watching ''en español''. In short, everyone thought it sucked. The only markets where the network was barely competitive were [[Los Angeles]] and [[Miami]], but those viewers quickly went away. Only one program, the World Music Awards (which previously set negative ratings records for ABC and FOX), remains from the network's original schedule.

 

 

The network kept limping along, however. Its only major grab was ''[[WWE]] [[WWE Smackdown|Friday Night SmackDown!]]'', the rest of its lineup consisting of [[Reality Show|reality shows]], stage magic (new episodes of ''Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed'' were among the network's better shows), and ''Under One Roof'' (a short-lived [[Sitcom]] starring [[Public Enemy|Flavor Flav]], which was infamous for shooting in Toronto while the [[TV Strikes|2008 writer's strike]] went on). In September 2009, MyNetworkTV officially stopped pretending and became a two-hour [[Syndication|syndicated]] programming block, similar in concept to the short-lived [[PTEN]]. It discontinued all original non-syndicated programming that wasn't ''SmackDown!'' and replaced it with syndicated [[Game Show|game shows]], Thursday-night movies, and reruns of ''[[The Unit]]'' and ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]''. One of its original shows, ''Jail'', got picked up by [[Spike TV]].