Are you talking about how they moved The Mentalist from Tuesdays to Thursday? It's not surprising that they would want to put the two NCIS series together.

Yeah, although I think this move to Sunday will kill it more. In it's first season on Tuesdays at 9, it almost got nearly 20 million viewers a few times. Then they moved it to Thursday 10 in season 2, which it's been easily winning it's timeslot, but completely killed any growth it might of had, had it stayed on Tuesdays at 9. Now on Sunday's lord knows how it will do, seeing as how it won't ever start on time due to football.

Are you talking about how they moved The Mentalist from Tuesdays to Thursday? It's not surprising that they would want to put the two NCIS series together.

I think it was a lazy choice. The Mentalist has never been the same, and NCIS LA has always just been a hanger on.

Most CBS sitcoms don't flop. The only true comedy flop they've had in a while was, How to Be A Gentleman.

[!@#$%^&*] My Dad Says seemed to be along the same lines.

They only tend to have one or two (if that) new popular sitcoms each season. Even Two Broke Girls, which was supposed to be this big show, has declined.

I think putting the reality shows on once a year would probably just speed up the decline, because people would get used to not seeing them. The only time I think once a year works is a talent show.

Edited May 17, 201214 yr by CarlD2

Surprised with 2 and a half men on Thursday but I think it will due well in its new timeslot. The Mentalist numbers will fall on Sunday night but will still win its timeslot. Their numbers have been dropping ever since they moved to Thursdays. As for Monday....they should have put Mike & Molly at 8 instead of the awful Two Broke Girls which seems to have lost any steam it had during just it first season.

Edited May 17, 201214 yr by Soapsuds

Hard to say if Two Broke Girls is loosing momentum or not, nearly all shows naturally decline in the Springtime to due to the weather getting warmer and that's when their declien started. I'm still unsure about Two Broke Girls being the 9pm Monday anchor though. HIMYM leading into Two Broke Girls leading into 2.5 Men was working well. I wouldn't have broke that up, but instead moved Mike & Molly after BBT and Partners in the 9:30 slot after Men. I can't help feel they are waisting the BBT lead in on an aging show., even though CBS will likely be able claim a win against X-Factor/Idol for the entire 8pm hour instead of only the 30 minutes BBT airs.

Edited May 17, 201214 yr by wingwalker

A Gifted Man canceled.

I actually liked this show.

Apparently Patrick Wilson didn't.

@patrickwilson73 Thanks for the AGM love...but now that it's "official,"I couldn't be happier. As good as it was(sometimes) it was not what I signed on for.

That's a little different, because CSI: Miami was 10 years old and The Mentalist is only 4. You should be putting your shows with 9+ seasons out to pasture to build up new ones, so you don't end up like NBC did when Friends, Frasier, Will & Grace, ER, etc all left within a short span of each other. What I consider "actively killing" a show is taking a show that's young, performing well & still has a number of seasons a head of it and maliciously driving down the ratings so you can cancel it.

Help me to understand...why would they actively try to kill a show that's doing very well on the network? It does not make sense to pick on a show with 20 million viewers? Is it to get a friend's show on? I don't understand. But I do agree that Sunday will kill The Mentalist.

Scratching head here.

ANDREA

Missed this yesterday, but the show that won't die, Rules of Engagement has been renewed for a 13 episode seventh season.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/cbs-rules-of-engagement-renewed-for-seventh-season-with-13-episode-order/

Unforgettable may yet survive. Apparently, TNT and Lifetime have expressed interest in it.

Unforgettable may yet survive. Apparently, TNT and Lifetime have expressed interest in it.

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/unforgettable-may-be-back-next-summer/

Apparently it will be back on CBS as a summer show with 13 new episodes. Glad to hear it.

Thanks, Soapsuds. Hmmm...wonder if that summer 2013 timeline will be moved up if they start canning shows left and right after the fall premieres. I wonder what made CBS change their minds.

CBS is probably the best place for it. TNT might even have worked but Lifetime does not seem like the right fit. They introduced two police dramas last summer and neither got renewed. I guess people love Jennifer Love Hewitt's pouting since her show was renewed. The premise of that was fine for a movie but does not seem sustainable for a show and yet there's that massage extra giving devoted mother of two making it all work.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/06/29/unforgettable-un-cancelled/140112/

It has been confirmed

http://tvbythenumber...ncelled/140112/

It has been confirmed

I am so happy...LOVED THE SHOW!

They probaly bring it back mid season when some new dramas fail in ratings. It had really good ratings and its filmed in NYC..