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UPN's most popular shows were its flagship shows, from Paramount's flagship franchise -- ''[[Star Trek]]'', in the form of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' (in fact, ''Voyager'' was UPN's first show period). The rest of UPN's lineup [[Your Mileage May Vary|was of varying quality]], but was largely made up of mostly forgettable comedies, action dramas, and various sci-fi shows that, for whatever reason or another, struggled or completely failed to catch on. The main exceptions were ''[[Roswell]]'' and ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', which the network (ironically, in hindsight) acquired from The WB. There were a good number of other interspersed successes, such as ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', ''[[Moesha]]'', ''[[The Parkers]]'' and ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'', the lattermost migrating over to The CW along with another hit, ''[[America's Next Top Model]]''.
Most of UPN's comedies succeeded by targeting an audience that, for decades, had been largely ignored by the major networks -- African-Americans. This led to it getting a reputation of being "the black people's channel" (complete with such backronyms as "the [[Fun with Acronyms|Urban People's Network]]"), frequently winning the ratings in that demographic even though, overall, it lagged far behind the "Big Four" broadcast networks ([[CBS]], [[NBC]], [[ABC]] and [[
The network had a children's block for its first four years called "UPN Kids", which was known for [[Marvel Comics]] cartoons, a cartoon based on ''[[Jumanji]]'', and cheesy teencoms like ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' and ''[[Breaker High]]'' (teencom on a [[Cool Boat]]). It was not well-remembered or well-rated, and was purposefully played down in order to not cannibalize the [[Ratings]] of Viacom stablemate [[Nickelodeon]]. By 1999, UPN gave up and let [[Disney]] have the time for "One Too", the last gasp of ''[[The Disney Afternoon]]'' and an extension of [[One Saturday Morning]] which lasted until 2003.
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