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Author: Super-MenaceSuper-Menace Date: May 18, 2008 20:51
> Jericho and Shark were the only CBS shows I watched and now
> those are cancelled. Neither would fit The CW target demo but
> other things on CBS's schedule might. They could probably have
> a second showing of How I Met Your Mother and one of CBS's
> other comedies and draw more with that on Sunday night, for
> example, than what they've been drawing there the last couple of
> years. They've farmed Sunday out to MRC this season but who
> knows how long that'll last.
I'd been watching Jericho and Moonlight, which are gone. I've just
about dropped NCIS, which has gotten really, really stupid. That's
about it for me.
CBS farming out Sunday night to a subcontractor is not much different
from all Old Three nets having long since subcontracted their Saturday
morning kidvid. I think we're going to see more of this kind of thing,
not less, as the old nets continue to dig their own graves deeper.
> Assuming a hypothetical CBS-2 broadened its target market to
> include men, there's lots more that would fit. CBS itself gets very
> decent ratings for reruns of procedurals. Reruns of just about any
> CBS show would probably draw about as well on The CW as
> what they're airing now. Yes, it'd make The CW, or CBS-2 if
> that's what it becomes, a second-run cable channel but that's
> what many cable channels are. As part of a package deal with
> several partners, a show like Jericho might become more viable
> with a viewing window on a CBS-2.
You may not remember CBS Cable, which was a short-lived operation that
went belly-up around 25 years ago. CBS Cable was exactly what was
wrong with CBS, then and now. It was a super-PBS, with a programming
schedule of "culture" that was too rarified even for PBS. No one
wanted to watch it because there was nothing on there to watch except
ballet, ballet and more goddamn ballet. CBS has not had an idea of
what to do with the airwaves since The Beverly Hillbillies was
cancelled.
It's too bad that Warner is bailing on The CW, because I think Warner
could do a decent job running it. It could easily develop new
programming, and of course it has the richest film library in the
world.
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