CBS: Some Things Old, Something New
It seems smart to put
The Amazing Race on the back burner for mid-season. With the gimmicky
Family and
All-Stars cycles, this most-honored of all reality-competition shows was beginning to look a bit played out. Less is more. CBS should make this show feel like an event, and the best way to do that is not to schedule it season-round. Leave us wanting more, and maybe more will come.
Moving
Without a Trace back to its old Thursday slot: Good idea. This season, it helped establish CBS' new Sunday strategy of a crime block to counter ABC's popular soaps. Now it can go back where it truly belongs, restoring some luster and stability to the toughest, most competitive night of the week. (And selfishly, I've had nothing to enjoy watching Thursdays at 10 pm since ABC yanked
Men in Trees from its lineup. It'll be good to have
Trace once again behind
CSI.)
And a big whew for CBS' mid-season renewal of
The New Adventures of Old Christine. I love that show, and was worried that the mystifying success of the mediocre
Rules of Engagement, which returns in that coveted catbird seat between
Two and a Half Men and
CSI: Miami, would spell its doom. -
Matt Roush
For more of Matt's thoughts on CBS' fall lineup, click
here.
