CBS Announces New Fall Schedule; Time Changes
NEW YORK (WCCO) -- CBS announced its new 2011-2012 primetime schedule Wednesday, ordering five new series and making key time-period moves for CSI and The Good Wife to strengthen its already top-rated primetime lineup.
The new series include three new dramas and two new comedies.
First of the dramas is Person of Interest, a crime thriller from renowned executive producer J.J. Abrams starring Jim Caviezel, Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson and Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson.
Unforgettable, starring Dylan Walsh and Poppy Montgomery as a former detective with a rare condition that enables her to remember virtually every detail from every day of her life.
A Gifted Man is about a preeminent surgeon whose life changes forever when his deceased ex-wife returns, starring Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Ehle.
The comedies include 2 Broke Girls, a comedy about two strikingly different young waitresses who form an unlikely friendship, starring Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs; and an odd-couple comedy, How To Be A Gentleman, starring David Hornsby and Kevin Dillon, about a refined magazine columnist and his very unrefined personal trainer.
The freshman series will be joined by 19 returning shows, including the season's #1 drama/scripted series, NCIS; #1 comedy, The Big Bang Theory; #1 news magazine, 60 Minutes; # 1 new comedy, Mike & Molly; along with two franchise reality series, Survivor and the seven-time Emmy Award winner, The Amazing Race.
The other returning series include: How I Met Your Mother; Hawaii Five-O; NCIS: Los Angeles; Criminal Minds; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; The Mentalist; CSI: NY; Blue Bloods; Rules of Engagement; 48 Hours Mystery; The Good Wife; and CSI: Miami.
For mid-season, CBS will present the third season of the reality series Undercover Boss, and the new police drama, The 2-2, from Tribeca Productions and executive producers Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.
The three time-slot moves include CSI: Crime Scene Investigation moving to Wednesdays at 9 p.m., Rules of Engagement to Saturdays at 7 p.m. and The Good Wife to Sundays at 8 p.m.
For the 2010-2011 season, CBS will once again finish the season as America's most watched network, marking the eighth time it has done so in the last nine years.
