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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 06:40 p.m. EDT, May 20, 2009
CBS on Wednesday announced a fall 2009 schedule with four new shows and some notable shifting of time slots.
Perhaps the biggest shift is the move of The Mentalist from Tuesday to Thursday, where it will follow CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. On Tuesday, it had the largest audience of any new series this season. But it may do better with the lead-in from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the most-watched drama of the season, although it has seen an audience decline since William Petersen left.
And moving The Mentalist opened up the hour following NCIS on Tuesdays for the spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles, which was tried out as an episode of NCIS during the season. CBS now has two NCIS shows to go with the three CSIs.
Other shows returning in the fall include How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, Survivor (with the next installment in Samoa), Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, 48 Hours Mystery, 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race and Cold Case.
CBS announced four series for the fall: dramas NCIS: Los Angeles, The Good Wife and Three Rivers, along with comedy Accidentally on Purpose.
And it picked up Medium, which was dropped by NBC, for inclusion in CBS' Friday-night block.
CBS has bid farewell to The Unit, Without a Trace, Worst Week and Eleventh Hour. Rules of Engagement was renewed, but as a midseason show. Flashpoint is not in the fall lineup but, according to published reports, may return later in the season or 2010.
CBS' changes are relatively modest overall. The network finished the 2009-10 season with more viewers than any other network, and as the only broadcast network to gain viewers over the previous season. (Fox was first with viewers 18 to 49 years old, an audience thought to be valued by advertisers; CBS tied for second with ABC in that demographic.)
CBS is the fourth broadcast network to announce its schedule during presentations to advertisers this week, following Fox, ABC and NBC; the CW announces Thursday. For details of the announcements, visit the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com.
As for CBS' lineup, its new dramas are:
-- NCIS: Los Angeles, which follows undercover agents apprehending criminals for the Office of Special Projects within NCIS. Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J star.
-- The Good Wife, another go at series television by Julianna Margulies, who thrived on ER but stumbled in the ratings with Canterbury's Law. As in the latter show, she's playing a lawyer — one who has gone back to work after her husband (Chris Noth) has gone to jail in a sex-and-corruption scandal.
-- Three Rivers, a medical drama focusing on organ donation. Alex O'Loughlin (Moonlight) stars as a top transplant surgeon.
The new comedy is Accidentally on Purpose, the latest effort from Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg). She plays a single woman who is also a film critic for a newspaper. Talk about being in a risky position. But that's not what the show is about. She gets pregnant on a one-night stand with a younger man, then agrees to live with the guy — but platonically.
Besides Rules of Engagement, CBS' midseason plans include The Bridge, a drama about a police union leader; Miami Trauma, about trauma surgeons and the second show for the new season with Trauma in the title (the other, just called Trauma, is for NBC); reality show Arranged Marriage, about three adults letting family and friends choose their mate, and reality show Undercover Boss, where executives work anonymously at the lowest levels in their companies.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal, in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com and now on Twitter. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
CBS on Wednesday announced a fall 2009 schedule with four new shows and some notable shifting of time slots.
Perhaps the biggest shift is the move of The Mentalist from Tuesday to Thursday, where it will follow CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. On Tuesday, it had the largest audience of any new series this season. But it may do better with the lead-in from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the most-watched drama of the season, although it has seen an audience decline since William Petersen left.
And moving The Mentalist opened up the hour following NCIS on Tuesdays for the spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles, which was tried out as an episode of NCIS during the season. CBS now has two NCIS shows to go with the three CSIs.
Other shows returning in the fall include How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, Survivor (with the next installment in Samoa), Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, 48 Hours Mystery, 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race and Cold Case.
CBS announced four series for the fall: dramas NCIS: Los Angeles, The Good Wife and Three Rivers, along with comedy Accidentally on Purpose.
And it picked up Medium, which was dropped by NBC, for inclusion in CBS' Friday-night block.
CBS has bid farewell to The Unit, Without a Trace, Worst Week and Eleventh Hour. Rules of Engagement was renewed, but as a midseason show. Flashpoint is not in the fall lineup but, according to published reports, may return later in the season or 2010.
CBS' changes are relatively modest overall. The network finished the 2009-10 season with more viewers than any other network, and as the only broadcast network to gain viewers over the previous season. (Fox was first with viewers 18 to 49 years old, an audience thought to be valued by advertisers; CBS tied for second with ABC in that demographic.)
CBS is the fourth broadcast network to announce its schedule during presentations to advertisers this week, following Fox, ABC and NBC; the CW announces Thursday. For details of the announcements, visit the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com.
As for CBS' lineup, its new dramas are:
-- NCIS: Los Angeles, which follows undercover agents apprehending criminals for the Office of Special Projects within NCIS. Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J star.
-- The Good Wife, another go at series television by Julianna Margulies, who thrived on ER but stumbled in the ratings with Canterbury's Law. As in the latter show, she's playing a lawyer — one who has gone back to work after her husband (Chris Noth) has gone to jail in a sex-and-corruption scandal.
-- Three Rivers, a medical drama focusing on organ donation. Alex O'Loughlin (Moonlight) stars as a top transplant surgeon.
The new comedy is Accidentally on Purpose, the latest effort from Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg). She plays a single woman who is also a film critic for a newspaper. Talk about being in a risky position. But that's not what the show is about. She gets pregnant on a one-night stand with a younger man, then agrees to live with the guy — but platonically.
Besides Rules of Engagement, CBS' midseason plans include The Bridge, a drama about a police union leader; Miami Trauma, about trauma surgeons and the second show for the new season with Trauma in the title (the other, just called Trauma, is for NBC); reality show Arranged Marriage, about three adults letting family and friends choose their mate, and reality show Undercover Boss, where executives work anonymously at the lowest levels in their companies.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal, in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com and now on Twitter. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
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Posted 07:28 PM, 05/20/2009
When do the re-runs start
beaver dam, kentucky
Posted 10:45 PM, 06/17/2009
thank you cbs for picking up medium
