Post by llyan on Jun 22, 2021 15:53:24 GMT
Ask Matt: Why Would CBS Move ‘NCIS’ to a New Night?
Matt Roush
3 HOURS AGO
How Risky is NCIS’s Move Off of Tuesdays?
Question: I saw from an article in TV Guide Magazine’s “First Look at The Best New Fall Shows” that the new FBI: International is going to be sandwiched between the other 2 FBI series on Tuesday nights. What the hell is CBS thinking moving the NCIS mothership from its longtime time slot? Are they trying to kill it? I hope they’re not putting it on Sunday night. I have not seen NCIS: NOLA or NCIS: LA since they were moved away from Tuesdays. I have had to see their episodes for the first time once I buy the DVD season sets. When are they gonna run NCIS? — William K
Matt Roush: First off, CBS is not “trying to kill” NCIS. I don’t even believe the network was trying to kill The Unicorn or Clarice, which both suffered from unfortunate scheduling choices this season and are not going to return. This is a case of CBS taking a calculated risk that NCIS’s enormous fan base will follow it to a new night — Mondays, thankfully not Sundays — where it will serve as a lead-in to the latest in the franchise, NCIS: Hawaii. I’m expecting both will do fine, and if the opposite happens, CBS won’t hesitate to reverse course and relocate the mothership to the time slot it has enjoyed for almost two decades.
The bigger risk in my mind is to think that FBI fans are so devoted and frantic for more that they will sit for three hours in a row for various offshoots of the procedural. This was inspired by the success of Dick Wolf’s three NBC Chicago shows stacked on Wednesdays, a strategy NBC will next exploit in the fall by stacking three Dick Wolf Law & Order shows, including the new For the Defense, on Thursdays. If you’re counting, that’s nine Dick Wolf-produced series airing over three nights.
And while I get that network TV is all about giving audiences what they want, isn’t this all verging on overkill?
www.tvinsider.com/1002173/ask-matt-ncis-moving-nights-manifest-canceled-love-victor/
Matt Roush
3 HOURS AGO
How Risky is NCIS’s Move Off of Tuesdays?
Question: I saw from an article in TV Guide Magazine’s “First Look at The Best New Fall Shows” that the new FBI: International is going to be sandwiched between the other 2 FBI series on Tuesday nights. What the hell is CBS thinking moving the NCIS mothership from its longtime time slot? Are they trying to kill it? I hope they’re not putting it on Sunday night. I have not seen NCIS: NOLA or NCIS: LA since they were moved away from Tuesdays. I have had to see their episodes for the first time once I buy the DVD season sets. When are they gonna run NCIS? — William K
Matt Roush: First off, CBS is not “trying to kill” NCIS. I don’t even believe the network was trying to kill The Unicorn or Clarice, which both suffered from unfortunate scheduling choices this season and are not going to return. This is a case of CBS taking a calculated risk that NCIS’s enormous fan base will follow it to a new night — Mondays, thankfully not Sundays — where it will serve as a lead-in to the latest in the franchise, NCIS: Hawaii. I’m expecting both will do fine, and if the opposite happens, CBS won’t hesitate to reverse course and relocate the mothership to the time slot it has enjoyed for almost two decades.
The bigger risk in my mind is to think that FBI fans are so devoted and frantic for more that they will sit for three hours in a row for various offshoots of the procedural. This was inspired by the success of Dick Wolf’s three NBC Chicago shows stacked on Wednesdays, a strategy NBC will next exploit in the fall by stacking three Dick Wolf Law & Order shows, including the new For the Defense, on Thursdays. If you’re counting, that’s nine Dick Wolf-produced series airing over three nights.
And while I get that network TV is all about giving audiences what they want, isn’t this all verging on overkill?
www.tvinsider.com/1002173/ask-matt-ncis-moving-nights-manifest-canceled-love-victor/
