CSI Files
Captain
The heat was on – and CBS executives clearly felt the gamble was too rich for their blood, instead opting to pull the latest new episode of CSI: New York from its timeslot to take it out of the way of the ratings steamroller that is Fox's Major League Baseball Championship Series.
The decision was announced at last-minute Wednesday night. New York wasn't alone in pre-emption – the premieres of CBS's Kings and Queens and Center of the Universe, also due to be shown during primetime that evening, were hoisted from their respective slots.
Instead, CBS rolled out CSI: Miami's second-season episode <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season2/money_for_nothing.shtml>"Money For Nothing"</a> to cover the 9:00pm slot (what would have been New York's lead-in) and the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fourth-season outing <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season4/suckers.shtml>"Suckers"</a> in actual place of New York at 10:00pm.
This may have been a shrewd move on CBS's part; last Monday, Miami's audience share dropped leaving it in a second place for the timeslot ("Grand Master", will now be shown in the usual slot next Wednesday at 10:00pm, presumably bumping the season's schedule up by one. For the original programming advisory, head over to <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/gofuton.cgi?action=pr&id=20041020cbs03>The Futon Critic</a>.<center></center>
The decision was announced at last-minute Wednesday night. New York wasn't alone in pre-emption – the premieres of CBS's Kings and Queens and Center of the Universe, also due to be shown during primetime that evening, were hoisted from their respective slots.
Instead, CBS rolled out CSI: Miami's second-season episode <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season2/money_for_nothing.shtml>"Money For Nothing"</a> to cover the 9:00pm slot (what would have been New York's lead-in) and the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fourth-season outing <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season4/suckers.shtml>"Suckers"</a> in actual place of New York at 10:00pm.
This may have been a shrewd move on CBS's part; last Monday, Miami's audience share dropped leaving it in a second place for the timeslot ("Grand Master", will now be shown in the usual slot next Wednesday at 10:00pm, presumably bumping the season's schedule up by one. For the original programming advisory, head over to <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/gofuton.cgi?action=pr&id=20041020cbs03>The Futon Critic</a>.<center></center>