It has. Moved from Wed nights at 10 to Friday nights at 9, I believe.
C'mon. What. Making it thru my post was a work out, wasn't it? :lol: Though not as cathartic in terms of frustration, I'm sureI cant believe how much this news has consumed me! I'm like a "crackhead" needing every moment of forum news hoping along the way it is just a bad dream and not the Melina finale. Heck Elwood made me late for my workout!
Glad to hear it
That you're somewhat better that is. (though congrats to Carmine on his marriage
)With CBS and all. As trite a saying as it may be, it is true: Show business is business. (Or, as John Larroquette's twitter puts it, where art goes to die :lol
The crux is that it makes a profit on the collaboration and compromise of so many tangibles and intangibles. It seems that those who produce it top down yearn to qualify and quantify it, to find a formula to be a predictor of cost worthy risks, which makes it hard for those who produce it from the bottom up in creating, developing and essentially selling new material and proposals. It makes it hard for those in the middle trying to manage & balance the demands of one while also trying to nurture and protect the other. (Within that, there are people to be found who do care). Networks have been making cuts annually for several years, and not just in production but from offices too, amazingly enough. (How high up that really trickled in a way that had substantial impact, well, who knows). That the tightening of purse strings is continuing at CBS is not at all a surprise. Show budgets are an easy place to pick away at, and no surprise they're being pressured to do more with less. Every show that's hit the news for it would be facing painful decisions due pressure from higher up. The manner in which shows have handled it seems to have varied, insofar as what did make it to media as stories.
The CM news I found unpleasant, and possibly moreso than NY in a way. NY I found more startling as it outright involved a leading cast member.
I hafta admit I kinda fell away from CM this past season, all by its own merits; I just wasn't tuning in like I once was, DVR or not. I do hope it'll manage a good new season, even with AJ gone. At least she'll get a send off. And Brewster will be back for most eps; knowing ahead of time it's likely her last season, hopefully she'll get a decent out for her character as well. They did well enough by Lola and Mandy in that fashion. But that was years ago now. Things apparently have changed, given they weren't initially going to give AJ anything at all.
Funny to note though. Gideon? Had his girlfriend butchered. He himself wasn't physically harmed, but was shattered and left. Hotchner's wife? Butchered. Hotch? Also butchered. But. He lived. She died. Garcia? Shot. Lived. But. Soon to be sole sister. Or should that be sole Baby Girl. Cos what professional woman wouldn't appreciate that in her workplace. (I know I know. Fun interplay and all, that has thankfully spread across characters and genders to become part of the show's Schtick. Wouldn't be nearly as cute or funny otherwise). Elle? Shot, and sorta butchered.
On another side, if the show has JJ leaving for "family reasons" while Hotchner sticks it out in the BAU as a single father, I'll hurl something at my television.
Basically? I fear for the sorts of dramatic exits the women could get that men don't often seem subject to... (Still. I also gotta admit that what happened with Morgan in the finale wasn't something I saw coming. Guess ya never know).
Still. I can only hope that at some point, writing up some sort of exit/resolution might be possible for MK & Stella, if an opportunity & circumstances within the show coincide with an interest on her part to do so.
(a reasonably short and painless post here, no Lori?
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