# CBS's Fall Schedule
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 16, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332 "2007-05-16T16:23:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/21 "2007-05-16T18:35:15Z")
[QUOTE=twickster]
Yes, usually designed so that some of each will fall during a sweeps month. Not having TAR start in the fall seems like SOP to me.
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This is what they used to do, similar to “Survivor” – one Race would start in the fall (August or September) and end during November sweeps, and then a second Race would start in the spring (February or March) and end during May sweeps. However, they’ve been doing some wonky scheduling the last few seasons. After they ran two Races kind of back-to-back, I’d imagine they need some time to regroup and come back even more awesome than ever before. Plus, Phil is in high demand, from what I hear, and he has commitments that need to be scheduled around.
Personally? I think this is the one single show on television that is worth waiting for.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/22 "2007-05-16T19:03:33Z")
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> “We approached our development this year with a specific goal in mind – to be daring and different,” says CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler.
_blink blink_
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/23 "2007-05-16T23:23:30Z")
Eh. I liked Jericho. watched all the episodes, participated in the threads. And it got better towards the end. But with Johnston’s death, they lost Gerald McRainey, the only charismatic actor in the crew aside from Lennie James, who played Hawkins. I wouldn’t have held out hopes of a second season being of the same quality as the latter first-season episodes. Maybe the producers will do like the producers of **Alien Nation** did when that series was canceled, and produce a TV movie or two to tie up the loose ends.
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### Author:  [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/24 "2007-05-16T23:38:45Z")
I’m not sorry to see _Jericho_ or _The Class_ go, but very relieved to see _HIMYM_ will be back - Ted & Barney’s broing about town next season promises to be legen-, wait for it, -dary.
Except for _The IT Crowd_ (here’s hoping it’s like the US _The Office_ and not like the US _Coupling_), there isn’t a single new show that’s come remotely close to catching my attention yet, and CBS’s offerings sound particularly meh. Hopefully the previews will be better than the blurb.
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### Author:  [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/25 "2007-05-16T23:48:56Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque]
**Jericho** has actual, vocal fans; can anyone name a single person who watches **Shark**? And yet, that one got renewed…there is no justice.
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Look up, **Max**. I like _Shark_. I do not like _Jericho_. IMO, _Jericho_ was uninspired, and it was impossible to suspend disbelief enough for me to watch it without snarking. _Shark_ is full of nasty people just like the real world; I can completely imagine a prosecutor doing the things that Shark does.
Poor Skeet Ulrich–he was supposed to be the second coming of Johhny Depp and instead ends up being on a poorly written tv show. Too bad for him.
I don’t care for Gerald McRaney and mr.stretch could not separate him from his role as Hearst in _Deadwood_. Therefore, mr.stretch was always hoping for his death and that was probably the only thing that made him happy in the last show. I kinda feel for McRaney–every future part he has mr.stretch will be routing for his character’s death.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/26 "2007-05-17T00:40:29Z")
I wonder if Lennie James will show up on 24 next season.
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### Author:  [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/27 "2007-05-17T01:03:07Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane]
Eh. I liked Jericho. watched all the episodes, participated in the threads. And it got better towards the end. But with Johnston’s death, they lost Gerald McRainey, the only charismatic actor in the crew aside from Lennie James, who played Hawkins. I wouldn’t have held out hopes of a second season being of the same quality as the latter first-season episodes. Maybe the producers will do like the producers of **Alien Nation** did when that series was canceled, and produce a TV movie or two to tie up the loose ends.
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I was reading [tvwatch.com](http://tvwatch.com) or something similar yesterday about them killing off McRainy. It was supposed to take the show in a new direction, along the lines of rebuilding America. He originally had a 5 season contract from what the website said. The plot with Hawkins was becoming more interesting, with the guy who directed homeland security having set off the nukes and now being in control of the country. After finally taking that story to something more interesting than him hiding, the show gets cancelled. damn
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### Author:  [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/28 "2007-05-17T20:17:16Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
_The Unit_ returns. 🙂
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After the season finale cliffhanger I should damn well hope so!
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/29 "2007-05-17T20:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane]
Eh. I liked Jericho. watched all the episodes, participated in the threads. And it got better towards the end. But with Johnston’s death, they lost Gerald McRainey, the only charismatic actor in the crew aside from Lennie James, who played Hawkins.
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I quit watching after two episodes. How did they kill him off?
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/30 "2007-05-17T20:43:49Z")
[QUOTE=Trion]
The good news is that “How I Met Your Mother” has been renewed. It looked kinda iffy for a while.
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Whew. Maybe the mystery will have time to be revealed. I was just feeling sad about The Nine and Reunion and every other show that was showing a little bit each week, leading up to the finale that never came. I still wonder who killed that girl and what really happened in the bank.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/31 "2007-05-17T20:51:48Z")
[QUOTE=Bookkeeper]
After the season finale cliffhanger I should damn well hope so!
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I thought I was alone here… 🙂
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### Author:  [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/32 "2007-05-17T21:36:40Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio]
I quit watching after two episodes. How did they kill him off?
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He was shot/hit by a ricochet whilst walking beside the tank that was taking out an advance force of people (from New Brun–formerly football rivals now desparate people who will do anything to get what they want) that were invading Jericho. Why was he walking beside the tank? Only the writers know. I think that was a stupid way to kill him, though his death was expected by me and encouraged by mr.stretch.
Wait, you quit watching after two shows–you probably don’t know that Jericho has a tank! And that New Brun was producing mortars to use in the takeover of Jericho. And then the US Army is getting involved…
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### Author:  [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/33 "2007-05-17T22:03:53Z")
I’m really pissed about Jericho getting cancelled, more so than any other show. I thought that since the show didn’t cancelled right away, it stood a shot of surviving, and I think the quality increased by about 250% after the 3 month hiatus.
I’d feel a bit better if there was some way for the writers to tie up the loose ends, and explain to us where the show WOULD have gone from here.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/34 "2007-05-17T22:34:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elza B]
I am looking forward to “Viva Laughlin”, but only because we LOVED the British predecessor - “Viva Blackpool”. I just hope they don’t screw it up.
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I knew I’d seen that premise before, but couldn’t put a name to it. I could not get through Viva Blackpool. I don’t know what it was about it but I just could not force myself to watch it. Still, since I’ve by and large abandoned The Simpsons, I’ll give this a shot.
So “Angel” is getting a sixth season, huh? Only they’re calling it “Moonlight” now. Man, that’s gonna suck (no pun intended).
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbss-fall-schedule/404332/35 "2007-05-17T22:51:56Z")
[QUOTE=stretch]
And then the US Army is getting involved…
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Only it wasn’t _really_ the US Army, because they had that goofy flag with vertical stripes.
_WTF was that? I’ll never know, dammit._
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