Exactly, its like the network gets bored and drops them forget the fact that half of their fall line up will most likely be in the trash...
Not sure where your grief for CBS's programming comes from. Nine years is a great run for any TV show.
Some of CBS's longer running series over the years:
Gunsmoke - 20 seasons
Dallas - 14 seasons
Murder, She Wrote - 12 seasons
M*A*S*H - 11 seasons
JAG/NICS (mentioned before) - 15+ seasons combined
Murphy Brown - 10 seasons
Knots Landing - 10 seasons
Not to mention the non-scripted shows they keep like: 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and others, including football.
It strikes me that CBS stays pretty committed to a show once it takes off (cue the new Hawaii 5-0 and, Two and 1/2 Men, and How I met Your Mother), but know that things need to move on from the past. I'll surely be be called out for mentioned old shows like MASH, but they stuck around for that show.
And they gave it a dignified exit, the same way they did with CSINY (and didn't do with CSIM, to their detriment).
I think CBS has handled a generational transfer of content rather responsibly. Much better than ABC, and worlds away from the train wreck of NBC.
I'm not happy that CSINY was canned either. But I know that someone, somewhere in the future, will come up with a show to at least rival it in plot, detail, and locale. :thumbsup: