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KMAX FALL PREMIERE DATES ANNOUNCED! May 17, 2002 12:47 pm UPN will introduce two new dramas and one new comedy to its schedule for the 2002-2003 season! NEW DRAMAS HAUNTED (Tuesday, 9:00 PM ET), starring Matthew Fox ("Party of Five") and Russell Hornsby ("Gideon's Crossing"), puts a supernatural spin on private investigation, where crimes are solved with help from an inexplicable link between this world and the hereafter. Four years ago, Frank Taylor (Fox) was a career police detective, had a great partner, Marcus Bradshaw (Hornsby), and a happy family life with his wife, Jessica, and their son. But it all changed when their child was kidnapped and never found. Frank, now legally but not emotionally divorced from Jessica, is working as a private eye when he finds his life changed forever after a near-death experience results in his being haunted by lost souls from beyond the grave that help him in solving a variety of cases. As Frank reluctantly accepts his heightened awareness, he evolves from an incredulous non-believer to an intrigued witness to the beyond. THE TWILIGHT ZONE (Wednesday, 9:00 PM ET), hosted by Forest Whitaker (“Panic Room”), comes into the 21st century in UPN’s modernized incarnation. On Oct. 2, 1959, THE TWILIGHT ZONE aired its first episode and instantaneously became one of television's seminal classics. Honoring Rod Serling's profound legacy, this new version of the perennial favorite will envelop viewers in a world of fantasy and suspense. Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker will host each self-contained episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, which will often feature known actors as ordinary people in beyond extraordinary situations as they enter the sometimes frightening, often intriguing, but always suspenseful and surprising world of The Twilight Zone. The pilot episode is directed by Jonathan Frakes ( Star Trek: TNG .) NEW COMEDY: HALF AND HALF (Monday, 9:30 PM ET) stars Rachel True (“The Craft”) as Mona and Essence Atkins (“Smart Guy”) as D