>> SATURDAY: >> 8:00 Rules of Engagement (yes, ladies and gentlemen, a SCRIPTED FIRST- >> RUN series on Saturday nights not burning off) >> 8:30-10 Reruns >> 10:00 48 Hours > > Not sure why CBS is moving Rules to Saturday. All I can guess is they > took a largely unimportant property and moved it to see if DVD, DVR, > and online revenue are collectively enough to justify production of a > series.
>From Sepinwall's HitFix piece: SATURDAY: Again, the last time a network entered a season with scripted shows on Saturday, it was CBS in 2003-4 with "The District" and "Hack." (Ah, "Hack." So many pun-filled review headlines...) "Rules" is here for a few reasons: 1)CBS is very high on the two new comedies (and several others still in contention for mid-season) and with "Men" returning, didn't have room on a weeknight; 2)"Rules" now gets 22-episode seasons, which makes it hard to hold it for mid-season anymore; 3)CBS owns a cut of the syndication money and wants to keep the show on long enough to make those back-end profits, and - perhaps most importantly, from the way Tassler made it sound - 4)Putting "Rules" (a show that manages to attract an audience in any timeslot, with virtually no promotion) here allows them to give a decent lead-in to repeats of "Broke Girls" and "Gentlemen," helping expose those shows to more viewers in their early days. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
