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For a second year in a row, CBS made the biggest scheduling move, taking veteran CSI out of Thursday after 10 years and launching new drama Person of Interest in the marquee 9 PM slot. CSI is relocating to Wednesdays 10 PM. Other major moves: CBS sending The Good Wife to Sundays and is bringing original scripted programming to Saturday night with Rules of Engagement:
CBS announced today its new 2011-2012 primetime schedule, ordering five new series and making key time-period moves for CSI and THE GOOD WIFE to strengthen its already top-rated primetime lineup. CBS will, once again, finish the season as America’s most watched network, marking the eighth time it has done so in the last nine years.
The new series include three new dramas and two new comedies: PERSON OF INTEREST, a crime thriller from renowned executive producer J.J. Abrams starring Jim Caviezel, Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson and Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson; UNFORGETTABLE, starring Dylan Walsh and Poppy Montgomery as a former detective with a rare condition that enables her to remember virtually every detail from every day of her life; A GIFTED MAN about a preeminent surgeon whose life changes forever when his deceased ex-wife returns, starring Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Ehle; 2 BROKE GIRLS, a comedy about two strikingly different young waitresses who form an unlikely friendship, starring Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs; and an odd-couple comedy, HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN, starring David Hornsby and Kevin Dillon, about a refined magazine columnist and his very unrefined personal trainer.
The freshman series will be joined by 19 returning shows, including the season’s #1 drama/scripted series, NCIS; #1 comedy, THE BIG BANG THEORY; #1 news magazine, 60 MINUTES; # 1 new comedy, MIKE & MOLLY; along with two franchise reality series, SURVIVOR and the seven-time Emmy Award winner, THE AMAZING RACE.
The other returning series include: HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER; HAWAII FIVE-0; NCIS: LOS ANGELES; CRIMINAL MINDS; CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION; THE MENTALIST; CSI: NY; BLUE BLOODS; RULES OF ENGAGEMENT; 48 HOURS MYSTERY; THE GOOD WIFE; and CSI: MIAMI.
For mid-season, CBS will present the third season of the reality series UNDERCOVER BOSS, and the new police drama, THE 2-2, from Tribeca Productions and executive producers Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.
The new 2011-2012 schedule is as follows:
MONDAY
8:00-8:30 PM HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
8:30-9:00 PM 2 BROKE GIRLS (New)
9:00-9:30 PM TWO AND A HALF MEN
9:30-10:00 PM MIKE & MOLLY
10:00-11:00 PM HAWAII FIVE-0TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM NCIS
9:00-10:00 PM NCIS: LOS ANGELES
10:00-11:00 PM UNFORGETTABLE (New)WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC
9:00-10:00 PM CRIMINAL MINDS
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (New Time)THURSDAY
8:00-8:30 PM THE BIG BANG THEORY
8:30-9:00 PM HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN (New)
9:00-10:00 PM PERSON OF INTEREST (New)
10:00-11:00 PM THE MENTALISTFRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM A GIFTED MAN (New)
9:00-10:00 PM CSI: NY
10:00-11:00 PM BLUE BLOODSSATURDAY
8:00-8:30 PM RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (New Time)
8:30-9:00 PM COMEDYTIME SATURDAY
9:00-10:00 PM CRIMETIME SATURDAY
10:00-11:00 PM 48 HOURS MYSTERYSUNDAY
7:00-8:00 PM 60 MINUTES
8:00-9:00 PM THE AMAZING RACE
9:00-10:00 PM THE GOOD WIFE (New Time)
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: MIAMI
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Why did they move The Good Wife???? It is now against Desperate Housewives and Army Wives!!!!
NOT during Football season! From September till Christmas, and then for playoffs, the NFL games will push “The Good Wife” way past 11pm.
Bye, bye. And “Alicia” thought her husband screwed her over!!!
Seriously, buddy? Examine this comment and then examine your life. CBS doesn’t have Sunday night football, NBC does. CBS will broadcast NFL games that start at 1 pm and 4:15 on Sundays. The 4:05/4:15 games may run over, so they’ll run an abbreviated 60 Minutes.
The Good Wife is scheduled to end at 10. What on EARTH makes you think that it will go past 11?
Actually Seriously, I have to correct you. When there is a 4:15 game on CBS…..all of prime time is shown the way it should be shown with a time delay. It doesn’t matter if the late game runs over until 7:30 EST…..60 Minutes, Amazing Race, Good Wife and CSI:Miami air for a hour each. Not sure where you got your info but that is how CBS does things. It’s been that way for a long time and will be until another network takes away the NFL rights from CBS.
Actually, seriously, the other poster is right. The CBS schedule hardly ever starts on time during football season. Whenever there is a 4 pm game on CBS it usually runs over past the 7 pm time slot for 60 Minutes and if their is overtime it can sometimes run over past 8 pm before 60 Minutes starts.
CBS has never shown an “abbreviated” 60 Minutes in all the years that football has been screwing their Sunday night schedule up, what makes you think they’ll start doing it now?
Fox figured out long ago to not schedule new shows from 7-8 pm and if they have a 4 pm game run over they can start the reruns they do have scheduled from 7-8 “already in progress” and have them end in time for the new episodes of their shows to start on time at 8 pm.
60 Minutes has been around or over 40 years in the same time slot so CBS isn’t going to do that, they’re just going to keep letting it push the rest of the schedule off and keep wondering why nobody’s watching their Sunday Night shows.
Nobody can ever find the shows on Sunday from September to January because they never start when they are scheduled.
Just in the last few years, Cold Case, The Unit, Without a Trace and Three Rivers have all been killed off because they were schedule on CBS Sunday. I expected CSI Miami to die there this past season, too. but CBS gave it a second chance, but still in the same time slot.
Out of all the episodes that aired on CBS last season of CSI Miami during the football season only 3-4 actually started on time.
The same happened over the last few years with the other shows I listed, too. For the first 4 months of the season from Sept to January every show on CBS Sunday would start late if their was a 4 pm eastern football game scheduled on CBS because they would run past the 7 pm eastern start time for 60 Minutes.
The games always run late, and always push 60 Minutes/Amazing Race late too. The thing that kills me, though, is when the first game is over, they frequently will continue running late to show the last 10 minutes of other games that nobody was even watching! I don’t get this kind of programming, and I’m worried that this will really mess up The Good Wife.
Desperate Housewives are gone.
Rules of engagement on a Saturday night. Might as well put an infomercial in its place, it may do better!
Rules of Engagement is doomed! Saturday at 8pm? Hate to be that show!
maybe the plan is base the ratings on the DVR numbers only!?!?!?!
Why would they ever change Rules of Engagement show to Saturday. They are messing up during the week. That put that stupid show Two Broke Girls……should have cancelled that and put back Rules of Engagement…………LOVE THAT SHOW Why???
Sunday nights at CBS are a strong time for dramas?
Did CBS not learn from FOX about putting a JJ show up against Grey’s and The Office? This probably won’t last long.
The Office has lost a lot of viewers now that Steve Carrel has left the show.
hahahaha Dude they have only had one freaking episode since he left. Way to jump the gun…
ROE on Saturday! LOL. Wow. They really did buy that last season to get it close to 100 for syndication.
Why did CBS put Rules Of Engagement on graveyard Saturday?
Dumb move putting The Good Wife on Sunday at 9pm. Its not an end-of-the-weekend kind of show.
Not thrilled about move of GOOD WIFE, but it will kill the competition. BEST show on TV, followed by one of the worst shows on tv. CSI Miami is unwatchable.
I heard Person of Interest is really good. I am looking forward it.
I won’t be watching the fake 2.5 man. For me no Charlie, no show. But with Terra Nova on Fox, I will watch that one, then House and later move to Castle. So it is ok.
with comments like “no charlie, no show” your post has limited creditability…..open your mind man…house without lisa? will limp along at best ( that saw its peak a few years ago anyway) and poor Good Wife…banished to Sunday?
the most amazing thing to me- the mundane csi miami, a borefest at best, is still with us.
Wow, a nice upgrade for The Good Wife. I’m glad they like the show.
Now, “The Good Wife” will be caught in that Sunday football-overrun nonsense. I haven’t watched a Sunday night CBS show in real time in a decade. What do they have against the show?
Instead of benchwarming, as it has so often done, Rules of Engagement is just warming up in the Saturday bullpen. If and when one of the new comedies fails, off to the mound they go. No need to read much more into it than that.
Interesting that CBS is dipping their toes back into original programming on Saturdays (even if it is Rules of Engagement). That could be a good move that pays off in the long haul.
Very exciting schedule. ‘Wife’ moves out if ‘parenthood’s way into Wisteria Lane zone. And ‘Rules’ was renewed for Saturday nights?! As much as I commend CBS for this move I can’t help but raise my eyebrows. But CBS does well on Fridays so maybe it won’t tank so much Saturdays hehehe!
Who needs warm milk to go to sleep?
Although programming on a Saturday night seems like a death sentence it may turn out okay. We live in a world of DVR viewership. If you like the show, you can watch it anytime. Hell, put Mad Men on at 9 in morning. I don’t care, I will just record it and view when I want.
The Good wife on Sunday could work. MAYBE, big maybe. It is a tricky thing to see it.
NCIS was a great lead in for it, and now the Amazing Race is it.
I do not know
So what happened to Rob Schneider’s comedy? It’s not mentioned as previously thought to be a midseason replacement.
still in the running, CBS notorious about not announcing comedy mid-seasons until a few weeks after upfronts.
I couldn’t be more excited about the moves CBS is making in the upcoming season. I’m reading all the negative comments and I truly can’t believe it. Putting original programming back on Saturday nights with a strong comedy like ROE thus creating Comedytime followed by Crimetime is brilliant. 48 Hours has always stood tall in the 10p slot so no need to mess with that. The new shows look creative and bring with them tried-and-true talents. I believe the programming moves they made are really going to strengthen their already dynamic line-up. Good Wife should have been a Sunday show from the beginning and CSI needs to give up the premiere seat and move over for some new talent. Still a good show, but CSI has lost a step or two. Maybe it will get find some stability in it’s new Wednesday positioning. Of course, the 2.5 Men controversy continues, but it will really come down to what the very talented writers have in mind for Kutcher’s role on the show. Sheen was funny because he had a great role written for him; Kutcher will benefit from the same if served up to him. He’s a pretty talented comedy actor in his own right. Good luck CBS.
They should pair rules with MAD LOVE — which should return — campaign on facebook — search savemadlove.
Hate that the good wife is on sundays — at least it’s not fridays but why did it have to be at 9?
That “Save Mad Love” campaign isn’t going to amount to ANYTHING – CBS Comedy REPEATS did better ratings wise!
I hate when networks change the time and/or night on long-running shows. Why in the world would they move CSI to Wednesdays at 10? Criminal Minds is a much darker show than CSI so it would make more sense in the 10pm slot and CSI at 9pm. Why couldn’t Person of Interest take Wed at 9pm? There’s no heavy competition there unlike Thu at 9pm when it will be against Bones, Grey’s Anatomy and The Office.
They turn to JJ Abrams, the man who can make crap shows like candy.
Rules of Engagement is one of the raunchiest shows on television. Saturday at 8 is one of the most popular timeslots for children. I hope that Parents Groups pressure CBS to reverse this decision, or at least move it to the 10 pm hour.
Meh. Rules will instantly get moved into the slot of the first new sitcom to get cancelled. If any of the other networks had it, they would have said, “We’re holding it until midseason.”
Parent groups should stick to parenting their children and not television networks. Our kids would be much better off and television for adults would improve.
Does this schedule now mean that other CBS pilots, untitled sports radio, the assistants, home game and untl. peter knight are all pretty much dead?
Those you mentioned are all dead, yes.