Let the Shifting Begin

This week Thursday Night Football has begun and CBS takes week 4, so in preparation, the network is starting to prepare their TV lineup and that means some shifting is afoot.

Superior Donuts starring the familiar Judd Hirsch who got his comedy chops on Taxi will have its second season premiere this week at 9:00 pm EST / 8:00 pm Central following 9JKL.Perhaps CBS feels this is a better fit than Kevin Can Wait. Me, Myself and I still leads into Scorpion. Big Bang will move to Thursday nights.

What’s interesting about this change though, in an interview with Edward Hersh, a TV consultant based out of New York City, is that he explained that because of a ratings dive from comedy to drama on Monday nights between Big Bang and a procedural, Scorpion was developed that ties the two together therefore holding the ratings for CBS’ Monday nights. This isn’t the first time for this shift as both shows can stand on their own now, but without a Big Bang lead in, it may affect the new kids, 9JKL and Me, Myself and I.

9JKL’s new lead-in is Kevin Can Wait, though the ratings jumped up a touch last week, Kevin Can Wait, with it’s major casting change may not be the best lead-in, but appears to be all CBS has for that Monday night line up. The Eye also doesn’t want to move time slots of its two freshman early in the game either.

The move is interesting to note too as Deadline.com also noticed that there are three multi-cam sit-coms in a row and there haven’t been any back-orders placed by the network yet for their two new shows. They could as 9JKL’s ratings did go up though.

It’ll be interesting to see if this move makes waves next week and any back-orders are placed.

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