First, I intended to run this network in a perfect world with unlimited money and shows that are artistically independent of the network.  That said, I would negotiate deals to air reruns of AD, Scrubs, Veronica Mars, Star Trek, and the Twilight Zone. 

Also, Firefly must be brought back.  I would leave it up to Joss, yes, Joss, whether he wants to pick up with Objects in Space or continue from Serenity the movie onwards, but either way, we would air reruns of Firefly Season 1. 

For my first new show, I decided it would be an hourlong western, but more like Deadwood on cable, so it can be gritty and violent, but not too gritty or violent.  It would have a fairly large cast and lots of turnover (b/c that's how western towns were), and the focus would be on the action and adventure of it, more like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly than, say, Dr. Quinn or even Gunsmoke.  Also, I would intend to tell the story of the town with a soap opera-like endurance, hopefully running for 20 years or more, like the old timey westerns. 

I would have Saturday morning airings of Disney animated movies, mostly airing my favorites, but I guess I can air Lilo/Stitch and Cinderella some time, too. 

The second original program would be a castle-set fantasy.  It would be less like the historical medieval era and more like Harry Potter or that Microsoft Encarta game where you navigate the castle by answering trivia questions, which it turns out is called MindMaze.  I don't know all the elements of the fantasy, but certain people (the castle wizard, the old witch) would be able to cast spells.  There may be dragons, pegasi, etc.  NO UNICORNS.  Unicorns are for pussies.  Also, this has a set storyline that would take it to 7 years and no further.  A war with a neighboring castle encompasses most of the last half of the show.  It's sorta planned out on paper, b/c I get bored a lot. 

Of course I would have certain nights set aside for classic movies...the plus side being, we'd only air movies that I had seen and deemed excellent.  Also, classic is vague enough for my own imposition of the definition, which would include the LOTR movies, Garden State, and Donnie Darko, as well as the traditionals like Casablanca, Mr. Arkadin, etc.  And this way I could spread the word about lesser-seen brilliant movies, like F for Fake, Chimes at Midnight, Festen, etc. 

The final 3 are original programs that are all anthology series, similar in format to The Twilight Zone (which I caught the night before last night's incredible television-a-thon).  The first is a complete ripoff of The Twilight Zone...One host narrating each episode, different actors and characters enact different subtly sci-fi situations (alliteration!) in each episode.  If done right...possibly in black and white, but probably not...it could rock.

Next, a space anthology series is necessary, as it is the one of my interests (other than dinosaurs, which could be covered by my Twilight Zone show) that has not yet been addressed.  This would have a regular cast (I forgot to mention that anthology series would be fairly cheap to make with a limited cast, and syndication would be easy b/c there would be no or limited serialization).  However, the cast would play different people in each episode, thus, there would be no stars but instead a group of excellent character actors.  Anyway, the show would be like Twilight Zone, but focused on different points in the past or future (one of the early episodes, for instance, would focus on the Big Bang, and one of the later ones would be set in another universe, perhaps, or a more advanced stage of evolution).  Also, it would show space scenarios with well-advanced technology and lots of aliens like Star Wars or humans struggling in the early years of Solar System colonization, like Firefly.  I think this show would be awesome, especially if it adheres to the laws of physics.  (Who's still reading this, btw?  Perhaps you need a life as much as I do)

Finally, my favorite.  I saved it to reward those of you who care.  The last original program (so far) is an anthology series like the others that is slightly more serialized.  It's a film noir anthology about a PI who takes on a new case each week.  Unlike VM, this one will be closer in color and style to the 40's film noirs, and I'm thinking it will never get too violent or sexual, but who knows.  Also unlike VM, the only character is the PI, the rest of the cast in each episode will be guest stars.  The pilot would have the PI solving some case for a girl who ends up dead, obviously, but he still solves the case and whatnot.  A few episodes later, he starts to see her ghost; she'll show up a few times throughout the first season, and the finale will feature her alive and having been playing him all along.  Season 2 will probably have a different story, b/c I'd rather solve this femme fatale story and move on than string viewers along, ahem, lost, ahem.  It'll either have muted colors (Se7en, Brick or Angel) or it'll be in b/w.  Not sure yet.  And that's it. 

I lied, that's not my favorite, nor was it the last.  The Wood would (teehee) of course air on Wednesday nights (I can already see promos for Wednesdays in the Wood), followed four years later by its spinoff, The Wood:  The Next Generation.  The seminal teen-dramas will replace all feelings of mourning for the Creek, The OC, the Wonder Years (?), Boy Meets World, etc.