CBS Season Kicks Off with Controversial Kid Nation

Kid Nation by Monty Brinton/CBS
CBS' premiere-rollout plan is as follows, starting off with the reality series
Kid Nation (which reportedly skirted child-labor laws by classifying the production as a "summer camp" and taking advantage of a loophole in New Mexico labor rules that has since been closed. Hey, at least these "campers" were able to dodge Paris and Nicole.)
For scads of CBS press-tour goss - including the current spin on
Criminal Minds/Mandy Patinkin - see the
Ausiello Report.
Wednesday, Sept. 19
8 pm/ET:
Kid Nation
Thursday, Sept. 20
8 pm:
Survivor: China
Sunday, Sept. 23
7 pm:
60 Minutes
9 pm:
Cold Case
10 pm:
Shark
Monday, Sept. 24
8 pm:
How I Met Your Mother
8:30 pm:
The Big Bang Theory
9 pm:
Two and a Half Men
9:30 pm:
Rules of Engagement
10 pm:
CSI: Miami
Tuesday, Sept. 25
8 pm:
NCIS
9 pm:
The Unit
10 pm:
Cane
Wednesday, Sept. 26
9 pm:
Criminal Minds
10 pm:
CSI: NY
Thursday, Sept. 27
9 pm:
CSI
10 pm:
Without a Trace
Friday, Sept. 28
8 pm:
Ghost Whisperer
9 pm:
Moonlight
10 pm:
Numbers
Saturday, Sept. 29
8-11 pm: Assorted... stuff
Thursday, Oct. 18
10 pm:
Viva Laughlin preview
Sunday, Oct. 21
8 pm:
Viva Laughlin official premiere
Click here for NBC's fall schedule.