After Midnight canceled; CBS leaves 12:30am slot

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41 minutes ago, mre29 said:

 

The popularity of franchises is a big part of why CBS has so many law-enforcement-related (or what some people call "copaganda") shows.

 

You may be right on there not being many comedies on the network; in fact, I only count four for this coming season (Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Ghosts; The Neighborhood, and the premieres-this-fall DMV). The problem there is that there are only so many hours in CBS's primetime schedule, and with most of that time taken up by the aforementioned dramas and reality shows, something's getting short-changed. The easiest solution would be for CBS to reclaim Saturday nights for something other than reruns and episodes of 48 Hours...but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

 

 

I honestly don't think anything can save CBS at this point nor the parent company as well. Skydance or not, Shari Redstone has dug a grave deeper than the one Larry Tisch dug prior. There is no savior coming to rescue CBS. Westinghouse doesn't exist anymore and I don't think any people from the Westinghouse era work at CBS anymore.

 

To think that CBS' resurgence was all because New World, Scripps and others got group affiliation deals with their respective networks. Funny that Scripps (the only one still out there that his history with the 1994 affiliation swap) is on the brink of extinction as well as CBS. Just goes to show that the short term is not going to be as beneficial in the long term.