Wednesday, May 16, 2012

CBS releases new fall schedule; 'Two & Half Men' moves to Thursday; how much of 'Elementary' will not resemble the BBC?


MONDAY
8pm How I Met Your Mother
8:30 pm PARTNERS
9 pm 2 Broke Girls
9:30 pm Mike & Molly
10 pm Hawaii Five-0

TUESDAY
8 pm NCIS
9 pm NCIS: LA
10 pm VEGAS

WEDNESDAY
8 pm Survivor
9 pm Criminal Minds
10 pm CSI

THURSDAY
8 pm The Big Bang Theory
8:30 pm Two and a Half Men
9 pm Person of Interest
10 pm ELEMENTARY 

FRIDAY
8 pm CSI: NY
9 pm MADE IN JERSEY
10 pm Blue Bloods

SATURDAY
8 pm Crimetime Saturday

SUNDAY
7 pm 60 Minutes
8 pm The Amazing Race
9 pm The Good Wife
10 pm The Mentalist

 NOT RETURNING NEXT SEASON: CSI: Miami, A Gifted Man, How to Be a Gentleman, NYC 22, Rob and Unforgettable.

NEW SHOWS: 
 
Partners is a sitcom from David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, the co-creators of Will & Grace. It stars Michael Urie and David Krumholtz as two architects, one straight and one gay, who find their partnership falling apart when the straight one proposes to his girlfriend, played by Sophia Bush.

Vegas: Despite the cancellation of one CSI show, this crime drama set in the 1960s and based on the life of rodeo cowboy turned longtime Sheriff of Las Vegas the Ralph Lamb, certainly sounds like CSI: The Early Years.

Elementary is -maybe- one of the most controversial of the new season. Well, maybe not completely controversial. Despite the fact that we’ve already got a pretty great contemporary update of the Sherlock Holmes story running on BBC and seen via through PBS, CBS has decided we need another one. And according to the producers of the BBC version, the Tiffany Network did approach the producers, at least according to executive producer Sue Vertueey, “CBS approached us a while back about remaking our show. At the time, they made great assurances about their integrity, so we have to assume that their modernized Sherlock Holmes doesn’t resemble ours in any way, as that would be extremely worrying.” Anyways, one of the major changes CBS will do (and prevents them from being sued) is turn Watson into a female, to be played by Lucy Liu. I'm sure BBC will be paying attention to make sure that CBS stays away from their format. Let us hope that the show doesn't have Watson (or Sherlock for that matter) falling in love with him. 

Made in Jersey is a legal drama that smells like the network’s attempt at courting a much younger, sexier audience who finds The Good Wife too complex. Janet Montgomery plays a working-class woman who put herself through law school and now uses her street smarts to win cases and work in a high-powered law firm. 

For Midseason:

Friend Me a comedy starring Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicholas Braun that is a show about two friends who move to Los Angeles to work for Groupon, and that is literally the premise. All I can see now is a bunch of Red Stater's turning to each other and saying "What is Groupon?" 

Golden Boy British pretty boy Theo James plays a cop who experiences a meteoric rise through the ranks, to detective, then to commissioner. It screams "standard cop drama" we've seen since Dragnet, but its not like CBS viewers actually pay that much attention to the premise. At some point over the last few years, CBS has become sort of like the Borg. They assimilate viewers to watch the same premise again and again, because resistance is futile.

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