TIFFANY NETWORK: CBS may be the network for old folks, but gotta say that their new shows may actually be of more interest to methan any other network's. There's two sitcoms with tired premises but intriguing casting (one stars Kat Dennings and the other has a supporting cast featuring Dave Foley, Rhys Darby, and Mary Lynn Rajskub), and three dramas that I might actually watch--a medical show from Susannah Grant starring Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Ehle, and Margo Martindale, a procedural show about a detective with Superior Autobiographical Memory (aka Marilu Henner disorder), and Person Of Interest, with Michael Emerson as a reclusive billionaire who hires a ex-CIA agent to fight crime.
As usual with CBS, the biggest news is the moves, with Good Wife moving to Sunday nights (against Housewives, Football, Family Guy, and HBO programming and getting pushed for football overrun) and CSI to Wednesday nights. As a result, Thursday at 9 is looking even harsher than it was last year, with Person of Interest, Office, Grey's, and Bones squaring off.
Not thrilled about Good Wife on Sunday nights - that night is already crowded for me with various shows that play at different times of year. (Mad Men, In Plain Sight, Army Wives, whatever HBO is showing, etc.)
ReplyDeleteI would watch anything with Michael Emerson, so it looks like my Thursday night DVR will do double time with his show and Grey's. And Jennifer Ehle has intrigued me ever since I saw her in "The Real Thing" on Broadway a million years ago.
I'll do something separate on TGW's finale tonight, probably. That was some good tv there. Elevator.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when is CBS (like Fox) going to figure out that it's easier for viewers to get attached to shows on Sunday nights if they don't constantly get pushed by football? There's almost always at least one "feature" non-time-sensitive story on 60 Minutes--a celebrity profile or similar. Drop it, run a shortened version of 60 Minutes when you have overrun, rather than have the 30-40 minute pushbacks we often get in the fall.
ReplyDeleteNot-not-not happy about the Good Wife being put on Sunday. Football overrun ultimately led to me dropping the Amazing Race. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Sue on being open to trying anything with Michael Emerson.
Alternatively, for the Fall, do 7-8 football overrun/postgame, 8-9 60 Minutes, 9-10 TAR, 10-11 Good Wife. Either hold CSI: Miami for midseason, or do a split schedule on Monday nights--22 episodes of Five-0, 22 episodes of CSI: Miami, no repeats of either, on either 11-11-11-11 or 11-22-11 alternating basis.
ReplyDeleteI think CBS is assuming there will be football. And we all know what happens when we assume things.
ReplyDeleteWhy not? Because CBS doesn't have 4pm games every week, and NBC has some kind of exclusivity window for NFL highlights at some point in the night.
ReplyDelete<p>Somehow Fox manages to start its shows more or less on time, by using a flexible postgame/highlights show (and not running a full 60-minute long show at 7.)
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</p><p>I actually think that the TAR / Good Wife pairing is a good one. Though during NFL season, it's going to turn into a big blob 2.5-3 hour recording to deal with football/60 miniutes overrun.
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