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TMC · 04-29-2015, 04:21 AM

http://variety.com/gallery/network-t...tings/#!2/cbs/

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What’s Working: “The Big Bang Theory” remains TV’s top comedy, and has helped nurture “Mom” into a success in its second season (and already renewed for a third) and helped new half-hour “The Odd Couple” produce pretty good numbers. Monday drama “Scorpion” has been one of the season’s strongest new series, while “NCIS: New Orleans” and “Madam Secretary” are older-skewing rookies that nevertheless attract lots of viewers. “NCIS” remains remarkably solid for a show in its 12th season and the move of spinoff “NCIS: Los Angeles” to Monday has resulted in nice timeslot gains.

What’s Not: “The Amazing Race” may be getting close to the finish line, as it has looked tired in the ratings on Friday and doesn’t mesh well with the net’s dramas on the night. Another critical fave, “The Good Wife,” is also slumping and will always be more of a prestige show than ratings draw. The two new Wednesday dramas on CBS this season, “Stalker” and “CSI: Cyber,” have been nothing special behind the still-potent “Criminal Minds,” and midseason drama “Battle Creek” struggled on Sunday.

What’s Next: The net is airing three high-profile original scripted dramas this summer, with returnees “Under the Dome” and “Extant” joined by “Zoo,” an animal-attack thriller based on the James Patterson novel. The latenight transition is also a high priority for CBS, with Stephen Colbert taking over “The Late Show” in late summer. Among the projects in the works for next season are a “Criminal Minds” spinoff fronted by Gary Sinise and “Supergirl” from Greg Berlanti.

Ratings: With a boost from primetime football, CBS will finish the season as runner-up to NBC in adults 18-49 while edging it out in adults 25-54. It rolled as usual in total viewers, and will finish as primetime’s most popular network overall for the 12th time in 13 seasons.

Key Shows

"The Big Bang Theory": No. 1 comedy also fares well in repeats.

"NCIS": There’s no slowing TV’s most popular drama.

"Scorpion": One of the season’s biggest new hits.

James28 · 05-06-2015, 04:59 PM

Person of Interest hit a really terrible 1.1 demo for its season 4 finale last night, Now is it possible that CBS goes ahead with that Procedural Purge I was talking about, especially after all of their ratings and viewership have declined throughout this season? Or at least the entire CBS drama division will have the episode orders for their future seasons cut to like, say, anywhere below 20 episodes? That would mean only the CBS comedy division can get full seasons.

icecream · 05-06-2015, 05:07 PM

One show hits a 1.1 and you're calling for all CBS dramas to have their episode orders cut? That doesn't make any sense. There are still dramas that do well for CBS.

icecream · 05-06-2015, 05:08 PM

If anything Scorpion needed more episodes this year so it could end with NCIS: Los Angeles. The last 2 weeks of ratings have proved Scorpion is their Monday MVP.

James28 · 05-06-2015, 06:01 PM

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One show hits a 1.1 and you're calling for all CBS dramas to have their episode orders cut? That doesn't make any sense. There are still dramas that do well for CBS.

Actually, I first mentioned that "Procedural Purge" situation on Page 2 of this thread. If there were a proposal to reduce the season orders of the entire CBS drama division, I'd let only one of the dramas, likely a couple, still have full seasons, and everyone else can have shortened seasons. Under such a proposal, I'd choose NCIS, and maybe Criminal Minds and Scorpion.

Also, Supergirl has officially been picked up to series by CBS for next season, according to Deadline.

king of comedy · 05-06-2015, 08:03 PM

Supergirl is the one show I'll look forward to watching.

icecream · 05-11-2015, 12:38 PM

CSI: Cyber is renewed (yay)! The McCarthys, Stalker, and Battle Creek are cancelled. CBS is taking forever to make their remaining renewal announcements.

icecream · 05-11-2015, 03:18 PM

CBS renews most of its lineup. CSI is the holdout that wasn't already cancelled, but will likely have a 2 hour wrapup movie.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...-person-794821

king of comedy · 05-11-2015, 04:36 PM

Supergirl is the one I'm looking forward to.

Spark Of Spirit · 05-11-2015, 05:50 PM

Awesome, more Person of Interest. It's the only CBS show I watch. Though Supergirl might be the second.

icecream · 05-14-2015, 08:42 AM

Starting Thursday May 21, repeats of The Mentalist will air weeknights at 11:35PM on CBS when The Late Show is between hosts.

icecream · 05-28-2015, 12:57 PM

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Starting Thursday May 21, repeats of The Mentalist will air weeknights at 11:35PM on CBS when The Late Show is between hosts.

The Mentalist will continue at 11:35 through Friday June 5. All but 1 of the season 7 episodes will air (episode 4 is skipped). Starting Monday June 8, repeats of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will air at 11:35.

icecream · 06-12-2015, 01:40 PM

CBS is using July 4 as burnoff day, with two episodes each of The Millers and The McCarthys.

James28 · 06-30-2015, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by catsrule

The Mentalist will continue at 11:35 through Friday June 5. All but 1 of the season 7 episodes will air (episode 4 is skipped). Starting Monday June 8, repeats of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will air at 11:35.

Turns out that this is actually a revival of CBS's old (1970s-early 1990s) concept of running late night crime and police procedural reruns, using the umbrella title CBS Summer Showcase, for the summer of 2015 between the May 20 finale of Late Show with David Letterman and the September 8 premiere of Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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From May 21, 2015 until September 4, 2015, the network is airing reruns of police procedurals and scripted dramas in the Late Show slot beginning with The Mentalist (May 21-June 5) and continuing throughout the summer with Hawaii Five-0 (June 8-12, July 27-31), CSI: Cyber (June 15-19, August 17-21), Elementary (June 22-26), Blue Bloods (June 29-July 5), The Good Wife (July 6-10, August 24-28), NCIS: Los Angeles (July 13-17), NCIS (July 20-24) Scorpion (August 3-7), NCIS: New Orleans (August 10-14) and Madam Secretary (August 31-September 4) will air in the time slot through the remainder of the summer. The network dismissed concerns that this may hurt the ratings of The Late Late Show with James Corden, which follows the Late Show

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James28 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 14, 2007 Posts: 3,967	Person of Interest hit a really terrible 1.1 demo for its season 4 finale last night, Now is it possible that CBS goes ahead with that Procedural Purge I was talking about, especially after all of their ratings and viewership have declined throughout this season? Or at least the entire CBS drama division will have the episode orders for their future seasons cut to like, say, anywhere below 20 episodes? That would mean only the CBS comedy division can get full seasons.
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05-06-2015, 05:08 PM	#94
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,603	If anything Scorpion needed more episodes this year so it could end with NCIS: Los Angeles. The last 2 weeks of ratings have proved Scorpion is their Monday MVP.

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king of comedy Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Aug 31, 2012 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,140	Supergirl is the one show I'll look forward to watching.

05-11-2015, 12:38 PM	#97
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,603	CSI: Cyber is renewed (yay)! The McCarthys, Stalker, and Battle Creek are cancelled. CBS is taking forever to make their remaining renewal announcements.

05-11-2015, 03:18 PM	#98
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,603	CBS renews most of its lineup. CSI is the holdout that wasn't already cancelled, but will likely have a 2 hour wrapup movie. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...-person-794821

05-11-2015, 04:36 PM	#99
king of comedy Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Aug 31, 2012 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,140	Supergirl is the one I'm looking forward to.

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icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,603	Starting Thursday May 21, repeats of The Mentalist will air weeknights at 11:35PM on CBS when The Late Show is between hosts.

06-12-2015, 01:40 PM	#103
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,603	CBS is using July 4 as burnoff day, with two episodes each of The Millers and The McCarthys.