How Will a Change in Football Kickoff Times Affect Your CBS Sunday Favorites?
tvline.com article about how the Football's Sunday Schedule on CBS Sunday nights will affect the shows airing on that same night, as The Mentalist.
Source: tvline.com
A 10-minute difference in football start times likely will be 10 times the headache for fans of CBS’ Sunday-evening line-up. The National Football League announced Thursday that it will move its 4:15/3:15c Sunday kickoffs to 4:25 in order to reduce overlap with games that start at 1. That means that the Sundays that CBS broadcasts a 4:25 game — nine weeks out of the 17-week regular NFL season — its primetime fare will be pushed even later than in years past. Football’s variable play time has long wreaked havoc on fans of CBS’ Sunday-night offerings. Now, viewers will have an even tougher time figuring out when The Amazing Race, The Good Wife and Sunday newbie The Mentalist — in the 8, 9 and 10 pm slots, respectively — will begin or end. (Diehards, it’s probably a good idea to admit defeat and have the DVR record all night.)
I was afraid this would happen again...last season, CSI: MIAMI was never on anywhere near its stated time of 10:00 pm and I'm pretty sure that had alot to do with its cancellation. I could never find it and I don't currently own a DVR so that wasn't an option.
ReplyDeleteI really hope that THE MENTALIST won't meet the same fate. Heller said he's counting on two more seasons at least and I sure hope it turns out that he's right.
Tom