Glimpse At CBS Fall Schedule? Network Tries Out Mentalist On Friday & 8-10 PM Thursday Comedy Block

Every year at this time around around, CBS‘ organizing guru Kelly Kahl experiments with moves that, if effective, lead to permanent changes round the network’s fall schedule the following season. When in the past The Big Bang Theory, a Monday 8:30 PM show, did great when examined behind two and a half Males, it absolutely was moved there one year later, beginning the comedy’s rapid ascent to blockbuster hit status. Within The month of the month of january 2010, CBS attempted comedy repeats, including Large Bang, inside the Thursday 8-9 PM hour — then still occupied by Survivor. Once they didn’t pop, the network pressed through getting a move of huge Bang to Thursday 8 PM anyway, plus it was effective. Most recently last season, CBS used Friday’s breakout Blue Bloods inside the Wednesday 10 PM slot as well as the Thursday 10 PM player The Mentalist inside the 9 PM Thursday slot. Neither did particularly within their new berths, and CBS ultimately saved them inside their old slots with this particular season’s schedule. Now CBS reaches it again through the slow time when many shows will be in repeats. A completely new episode in the Mentalist airs tonight at 9 PM. Becoming an older-skewing series (mature women love Simon Baker!), the procedural should be capable of match CBS’ Friday selection, coupled with Blue Bloods. The experiment doesn’t bode well for your current occupant in the Friday 9 PM slot, CSI: NY, which already had its order cut this season and contains been benched for time. Can it be the initial in the CSI series to go to in the air? Another CBS organizing tryout is really a that I have been marketing since 2 Broke Women launched large inside the fall — a couple-hour comedy block on Thursday, something the network will pilot April 12. With NBC’s comedy selection a shadow of the former self within the glory Must See TV days, CBS can expand its comedy invasion round the evening, and consists of the weapons to make it happen. To take advantage from the example with NBC’s last highly-rated Thursday comedy block, CBS features its own Pals with Large Bang, about several youthful single pals (see my 2010 story Is Big Bang Theory The Next Pals?), which is Will & Sophistication with 2 Broke Women, of a mismatched group of pals. With people two as tentpoles at 8 PM and 9 PM, CBS can absolutely open a couple-hour comedy block on Thursday. That's if two and a half Males returns next season because so many expect, contingent on star Ashton Kutcher signing a completely new deal. Another season of Males and the way I Met Your Mother, that's more effective than in the past in Season 7 (the show has another season on its current two-year pickup), would shoreline up CBS’ signature Monday comedy selection and enable the network to move supports to Thursday. On April 12, a repeat of huge Bang at 8 PM will probably be a completely new Rules Of Engagement and repeats of huge Bang at 9 PM and two Broke Women. Your evening, CBS will even take a look at Person Of Curiosity at 10 PM. It'll be a repeat, and so the result won’t be 100% conclusive but would inform CBS’ decision if you should alter the newcomer drama. To ensure that as another advantage for the organizing switches, the repeats inside the new time slots, like the POI rerun at 10 PM, are known as special deals and won’t count, improving the shows’ season earnings.