Last week, the networks all announced their initial schedules for next season. Beginning September 2007, this is what the Tuesday grid is going to look like, at least tentatively. There is always the chance of reshuffling and other various changes to be made before the schedules actually go live.
Now rather than take a look at each of the networks, I thought it would be better to take a look at the daily grids. Better to see how the networks stack up against one another. Today is Tuesday, so let's see how it looks.
| Tues | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| ABC | Cavemen | Carpoolers | Dancing with the Stars Results | Boston Legal | ||
| CBS | NCIS | The Unit | Cane | |||
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | Chuck | Law & Order: SVU | |||
| FOX | New Amsterdam | House | Local Programming | |||
| CW | Beauty and the Geek | Reaper | Local Programming | |||
ABC leads the off the night with a pair of new sitcoms to kick off the evening, the first of which I doubt will last more than five episodes. It is Cavemen, the comedy inspired by the Geico commercials — that's right, a commercial-inspired sitcom. I have read an early report on the pilot, and it is allegedly awful. I saw a scene, and it is as bad as I imagined. It is followed up by Carpoolers, a comedy starring Fred Goss, Jerry O'Connell, Faith Ford, and a few others. It is about guys and their various flaws and their attempts to deal.
The CBS schedule starts off unchanged save for a new anchor in Cane, starring Jimmy Smits as the new head of a family who made its fortune in sugar and rum. Frankly, I don't see this lasting all that long, though I am willing to be proven wrong. It is just from the preview I saw I just did not feel hooked into the world of rum and sugar that is causing all the problems for the family.
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1 - Brent
CBS had to try something new in the third hour of Tuesday. Over the past two seasons, since they cancelled "Judging Amy," they've tried six different series in that time slot - "Close to Home," "Threshold," "Love Monkey," "The Amazing Race," "Smith," "3 Lbs" - and for half of the 2006-07 season resorted to showing reruns in the slot. Clearly CBS needed to try something that is radically different from what the other networks have one and reviving a format that worked well for them before - "Cane" is a "Dallas" like show that also reaches out to a Hispanic audience - is what they're going with.