I'm not sure if I should be adding this random paragraph at the beginning as I normally do sometimes. But I figured that I might as well tell you that this is a random day of the week blog post and not one of the open days where I could potentially be posting throughout the rest of the month on that day. The point is, this is a random post and it will not result in more postings this day of the week right now.
Here is this year’s
installment of me posting about what the upcoming schedule on CBS will be like.
Now while I didn’t do that with a different network last year, I will do another
major network this year. You’ll find out which one soon. This post is probably
for more personal use than it is for anyone else’s, but hopefully you can read
and enjoy these meanderings as well as I would.
Supergirl basically left in
April and was replaced by back to back Mike and Molly. CBS might have only
reran the pilot of Supergirl once and every time it should have rerun, it was
two Big Bang Theory episodes that aired in its stead. Supergirl is now moving
to the CW and all of the first season will rerun on the CW. CW is the most
rerun friendly network (during the main season, at least). For more of the
future of Supergirl, you’ll have to read the notes on the CW network, which I
will post later.
I might have to do notes in
this blog that relate to my other blogs on shows that ended this season. For
instance, I blogged about CSI: Cyber, and it ended. It wasn’t cancelled for a
while as the airing was over but the main TV season wasn’t yet over. It was cancelled
like many other shows in May. Rush Hour was what replaced it for the rest of
the season.
Some of the shows, I’m not
really sure I care about what replaced them for a while. Scorpion disappeared
from the schedule in April being replaced by reruns of The Big Bang Theory for
one half of the hour and addition new episodes of The Odd Couple in the second
half. I’m not sure that I will count that with the new schedule. Angel from
Hell aired in 2 Broke Girl’s timeslot when Survivor was on its winter hiatus.
It was basically cancelled before Survivor was brought back being replaced with
2 Broke Girls, making the return, like that of Scorpion’s, to be a bit
insignificant since what replaced it isn’t on the schedule anymore.
Life in Pieces was basically
replaced by The Odd Couple during midseason. Code Black was replaced by
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders during midseason. All four shows are returning
next season, with Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders being sometime in midseason
again with Code Black in its place. Life in Pieces and The Odd Couple will both
be on the fall schedule.
One of the weirdest parts of
last season’s schedule was Person of Interest which was treated like gold that
could suddenly turn into poop. The quality of the show didn’t suffer but it
seemed to get needlessly pushed back farther into the schedule and they upped
and cancelled it to nobody’s surprise before the final season came back and
burned off at two different time slots. Why does such a great show get such
shabby treatment? Simple: it is not owned by CBS and CBS doesn’t want someone
else to get all the money from more repeats.
Now that I’ve gotten out of
that, I might as well tell you about what all has been replaced with what.
First, I’ll do the part of shows that have replaced part of the CSI franchise.
Rush Hour, which replaced the last remaining part of the franchise still on the
air was also cancelled and will be replaced by the show Pure Genius. Code Black
remains the replacement for CSI. Supergirl, half of which replaced Two and a
Half Men, is now replaced by two comedies: Kevin Can Wait and Man with a Plan.
I wonder what will replace those comedies. Part of CSI: New York became half of
Supergirl. The other half is now The Odd Couple. CSI: Miami is Elementary now
and Cold Case is Hawaii Five-0 now. Without a Trace became The Good Wife. After
it ended this season, it was replaced by more of Undercover Boss for a while
during the summer. But you might be wondering about next season.
What happened to The Good
Wife? Basically, it is now two comedies: the returning Life in Pieces and the
new show called The Great Outdoors. It can be a bit complicated when a show
that replaces a show is actually one that has already aired but then wasn’t on
the air. So I hope that this makes sense to people. If not, then you don’t have
to read these updates in later years.
The Amazing Race is now at
midseason. In its stead for the fall is MacGyver. Limitless ended and was
replacement mostly by the show Bull after being replaced by the end of Person
of Interest. That might actually be all the changes regarding that right now.
I should get to what new shows
and returning shows will appear on the schedule during midseason on CBS. Criminal
Minds: Beyond Borders, Undercover Boss, and The Amazing Race will both return
sometime during midseason. Undercover Boss is always during midseason and could
become a summer show if there’s too much on the schedule. As for the new
midseason shows, we will be seeing Training Day, Ransom, and Doubt. I think
that’s it, if I didn’t forget any show. I will not mention summer shows as that
remains hard to track on any network. Plus, I wouldn’t even know what is and
isn’t returning just yet anyways.
Well, that’s it for this blog
post. There isn’t anything else to mention in this blog post. We’ll see if some
of the shows that I think will fail will in fact fail into the season or, at
the very least, sometime by May. I have the feeling that they will cut back the
hours of comedies very quickly: November sweeps will be the latest this happens
by. What will happen? We don’t exactly know.
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