Matlock "Pilot" Series Premiere

 

If you haven't seen the new Kathy Bates' series Matlock, what are you doing? Here are my thoughts on the series premiere.

CBS 2021 Fall Schedule: FBI Tuesdays; NCIS Moves to Mondays

On Wednesday, CBS becomes the third broadcast network to announced their fall 2021 schedule and it looks like a big move is coming for NCIS. 

After 18 years as CBS's Tuesday night lead-off, NCIS will be relocating to Mondays at 9pm, where it will lead into new spinoff NCIS: Hawai'i. The move allows CBS to rebrand Tuesday nights as an all FBI night. This will give the #OneChicago and Law & Order creator Dick Wolf three nights of primetime next season. 

As for CBS's Monday night shake-up, Bull will be relocating to Thursdays at 10 pm. While The CSI revival will close out CBS' reality dominated Wednesdays at 10pm and the long-delayed second season of Blood and Treasure has been delayed until 2022. 

SEAL Team will air its first four Season 5 episodes on Sundays at 10pm before jumping to CBS sibling streaming outlet, Paramount+. Meanwhile the former Wednesday occupants S.W.A.T. will then take over that Sunday slot following a brief run on Fridays at 8pm (the former MacGyver's timeslot will eventually be filled with an unscripted series soon to be announced).

Here's a look at the fall schedule:

MONDAY

8/7c The Neighborhood

8:30/7:30c Bob Hearts Abishola

9/8c NCIS

10/9c NCIS: Hawai'i (NEW)

TUESDAY

8/7c FBI

9/8c FBI: International (NEW)

10/9c FBI: Most Wanted

WEDNESDAY

8/7c Survivor

9/8c Tough as Nails

10/9c CSI: Vega (NEW)

THURSDAY

8/7c Young Sheldon

8:30/7:30c United States of Al

9/8c Ghosts (NEW)

9:30/8:30c B Positive

10/9c Bull

FRIDAY

8/7c S.W.A.T./reailty series TBA

9/8c Magnum P.I.

10/9c Blue Bloods

SATURDAY

8/7c Crimetiem Saturday (drama series encores)

9/8c Crimetime Saturday (drama series encores)

10/9c 48 Hours

SUNDAY

7/6c 60 Minutes

8/7c The Equalizer

9/8c NCIS: Los Angeles

10/9c SEAL Team/S.W.A.T.

MIDSEASON:

The Amazing Race, Blood and Treasure Come Dance with Me (NEW), Good Sam (NEW), Smallwood (NEW), Undercover Boss.

CANCELLED:

All Rise, MacGyver, Mom, NCIS: New Orleans, The Unicorn. 

SIDE NOTE: Evil and most likely Clarice will be airing new episodes on Paramount+.

I'm liking the new moves that CBS has made for this fall. I'm so looking forward to Tuesday nights with the FBI fam! Monday nights look good with NCIS and NCIS Hawai'i. Bull moving to Thursdays isn't that bad, it's been a nice rating sample for the network on Monday nights. 

What are your thoughts on the new CBS fall schedule? Looking forward? Leave a comment!

CBS TV Fall 2018-2019

Murphy Brown and Magnum P.I are coming back to CBS as the two of the six new series will be premiering on CBS this fall 2018 schedule.

"Stability where we are strong, change where we need it," said CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl on describing the network's schedule for next season. With the network's biggest declines this past season was at Monday, that's where the biggest changes are coming, with the shrinking of the comedy block from two hours to an hour.

Here's the CBS' fall 2018-2019 schedule:

MONDAY
8/7c The Neighborhood (New Series)
8:30/7:30c Happy Together (New Series)
9/8c Magnum P.I. (New Series)
10/9c Bull

TUESDAY
8/7c NCIS
9/8c FBI (New Series)
10/9c NCIS: New Orleans

WEDNESDAY
8/7c Survivor
9/8c SEAL Team
10/9c Criminal Minds

THURSDAY
8/7c The Big Bang Theory
8:30/7:30c Young Sheldon
9/8c Mom
9:30/8:30c Murphy Brown (New Season)
10/9c S.W.A.T.

FRIDAY
8/7c MacGyver
9/8c Hawaii Five-O
10/9c Blue Bloods

SATURDAY
8/7c CRIMETIME SATURDAY
9/8c CRIMETIME SATURDAY
10/9c 48 Hours

SUNDAY
7/6c 60 Minutes
8/7c God Friended Me
9/8c NCIS: Los Angeles
10/9c Madam Secretary

Show that are held for Mid-season: Man with a Plan, Life In Pieces, Elementary, Instinct, as well as new drama series The Code and The Red Line. and new comedy Fam.

Forgettable Story: Kevin Can Wait "Kevin's Good Story"

It's one of those classic telling of lie story lines that never gets too old for today's comedies, but it still brings it a couple of laughs in this episode.

When Kevin and Donna go out with their friends, Donna tells a story of when Kevin was acting as a hero and was thrown off from a latter. The problem was that it wasn't Kevin's story that in fact it was his friend Goody, who was at the dinner with his wife.

Goody and Kevin confront about it with Kevin explaining that he forget his anniversary with Donna and needed something to tell her and well she bought it. Later Goody wasn't around with Kevin and the guys after that evening that they had, but when Kevin came home, Donna and Goody's wife was in the kitchen and fear struck him, fearing that Goody told his wife about it. But it was Goody's wife asking if he could talk to her students about the incident, but he didn't really want to.

Kevin talks to the neighborhood priest about it and gave him a thing or two about it. Kevin left Goody's wife a message about it ad met the guys at their pizza joint. He tells Goody that he told his wife and fear struck his eyes. He never really wanted to tell her in the first place because she would force him to quit the force.

But after a nice anniversary evening dinner, theater and karaoke, Kevin finally told her the truth and she didn't take it well. But she did tell him that they have both forgotten their anniversary for two years. Later she made him go with her to her principal's BBQ party and seat with him. Kevin fears this guy as he eats corn like if it was It eating and coming to get you next. After a while, Donna lies and the two get out of there.   Kevin and Donna later had Goody and his wife over for a sorry dinner that Kevin made, that was all healthy, but it was not so tasty as everyone would say and ordered pizza instead.

In my case, this was an okay average episode. It was a story line that has been done but yet it may not satisfy you but gives enough to like it. There were some really good scenes, mostly the Goody and his wife were the ones that stood out the most. The jokes of how he can't have one cookie and could lose a foot. Another was Kevin telling Chale about how he was in a band at one time, but it became a joke for him that he believed it.

Overall, I give this episode a 5/10.

You can catch Kevin Can Wait at it's new time, Monday nights at 8/7c on CBS.

CBS Announces Premiere Dates

On Tuesday, CBS became the fourth broadcasting network to announce their premiere plan for the 2016-2017 season. As NBC, FOX and The CW did last week and it looks like the eye network will once again kicks things off with Thursday Night Football on Sept. 15.

The network announces it's new six-hour douc-series Case Closed, which examines the unsolved JonBenet Ramsay murder, which will air over three nights beginning on Sunday, Sept 18, Monday Sept. 19 and Sunday, Sept. 25 during premiere week.

Also for fans of Scorpion and Two Broke Girls, they'll return with a super-sized episodes.

Here's what the CBS Schedule looks like:

Thursday, Sept. 15
7:30pm Thursday Night Football Pre-Game Show
8:25pm Thursday Night Football (Denver @ Kansas City)

Sunday, Sept. 18
8:30pm Case Closed (JonBenet Ramsey, Part 1)

Monday, Sept. 19
8pm The Big Bang Theory (Season 10)
8:30pm Kevin Can Wait (premiere)
9pm Case Closed (JonBenet Ramsey, Part 2)

Tuesday, Sept. 20
8pm NCIS (Season 14)
9pm Bull (premiere)
10pm NCIS: New Orleans (Season 3)

Wednesday, Sept. 21
8pm Survivor (Season 33)
9:30pm Big Bother Finale

Friday, Sept. 23
8pm MacGyver (premiere)
9pm Hawaii Five-O (Season 7)
10pm Blue Bloods (Season 7)

Saturday, Sept. 24
10pm 48 Hours (Season 29)

Sunday, Sept. 25
7pm 60 Minutes (Season 49)
9pm Case Closed (JonBenet Ramsey, Part 3)

Monday, Sept. 26
9pm Presidental Debate

Wednesday, Sept. 28
9pm Criminal Minds (Season 12)
10pm Code Black (Season 2)

Sunday, Oct. 2
8pm NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 8)
9pm Madam Secretary (Season 3)
10pm Elementary (Season 5)

Monday, Oct. 3
9pm Scorpion (Season 3; two hour premiere)

Monday, Oct. 10
9pm Two Broke Girls (Season 6, one hour premiere)

Monday, Oct. 17
9:30pm The Odd Couple (Season 3)

Monday, Oct. 24 (Regular post-football lineup)
8pm Kevin Can Wait
8:30pm Man with a Plan (premiere)
9pm Two Broke Girls
9:30pm The Odd Couple
10pm Scorpion

Thursday, Oct. 27 (post-football lineup)
8pm The Big Bang Theory
8:30pm The Great Indoor (premiere)
9pm Mom (Season 4)
9:30pm Life in Pieces (Season 2)
10pm Pure Genius (premiere)

Mid-season: Return shows: The Amazing Race, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Undercover Boss. New: Training Day and Doubt.

The Great Indoors - First Look

Coming to CBS this fall a new comedy starring Joel McHale ("The Soup" and "Community"), who's a renowned adventure reporter for an outdoor magazine who must adapt to the times when he becomes the desk-bound boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the publication.

Jack (McHale) has led a thrilling "outdoorsy" life exploring the edges of the earth while chronicling his adventures for Outdoor Limits. But his globe-trotting days end when the magazine's charismatic founder and outdoor legend, Roland (Stephen Fry), announces the publication's move to web-only and assigns Jack to supervise their online team of "journalists."

Jack's eager 20-something colleagues include Clark (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), a tech nerd who knows everything about surviving on Mars and a zombie apocalypse; Emma (Christine Ko), their social media expert who views Jack as the uman version of dial-up; and Mason (Shaun Brown), a hipster-lumberjack who hasn't spent any actual time outside.

Jack reports to Roland's daughter, Brooke (Susannah Fielding), an ex-flame who caters to the sensitive staffers by giving them all throphies just for working hard. Jack's best friend, Eddie (Chris Williams), runs the local dive bar that's popular with the younger set and helps Jack "decode" his co-workers. Jack is baffled by the world of click-bait and listicles, but if he's patient, he may be able to show these kids that the outside world is much more than something on a screen... if he doesn't beat them with their selfie-sticks first.

Mike Gibbons, Christ Harris and multiple Emmy Award winner Andy Ackerman are executive prodcers for CBS Television Studios. Ackerman directed the pilot.

Get a first look of "The Great Indoors."

Bull - First Look

Well, it didn't take that long but Michael Weatherly is back on CBS. Weatherly stars as Dr. JAson Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trail consulting firms of all time. Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick.

Bull employs an enviable team of experts at Trail Analysis Corporation to shape successful narratices down to the very last detail. They include his quick-witted brother-in-law Benny Colon (Freddy Rodriguez), who plays a defense attorney in mock trails; Marissa Morgan (Geneva Carr), a cutting-edge neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security; former NYPD detective Danny James (Jaime Lee Kirchner), the firm's tough but relatable investigator; haughty millennial hacker Cable McCrory (Annabelle Attanasio), who is responsible for gathering cyber intelligence; and Chuck Palmer (Chris Jackson), a fashion-conscious stylist and former ALL-America lineman who fine tunes clients' appearances for trail.

In high-stakes trails, Bull's combination of remarkable insight into human nature, three Ph. D.'s and a top-notch staff creates winning strategies that tip the scales of justice in his clients' favor.

Paul Attanasio, Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Jay McGraw, Mark Goffman and Rodrigo Garcia are executive producers for CBS Television Studios. Gracia directed the pilot.

Checkout the trailer:

CBS Fall 2016-2017 Schedule

On Wednesday, CBS presented it Upfront for the 2016-2017 season with the advertisers.

The big news out of this would be that there will be eight comedies on the network as they are restrting their signature Monday comedy block, with the return of Kevin James' new series "Kevin Can Wait." This will be James' return to the network on Mondays at 8 pm slot where King of Queens spent most of it's 9 year run. James will be joining with Matt LeBlanc and his new sitcom "Man with a Plan."

After CBS scaled back on their Monday comedy block to one hour two years ago and getting way with it all of last season, the network is re-expanding it in a major way with the return of the two-hour block.

Like this isn't new, CBS is using it's strongest shows to launch new shows. The network's #1 drama, NCIS, will be used as the launching pad for Bull, who's stars by the departed NCIS co-star Michael Weatherly. So I guess he's departure didn't really need to be that big since he's coming right back. TO make room for Bull (no pun intended) NCIS: New Orleans will be moving to 10 pm.

With CBS top comedy The Big Bang Theory will help launch fellow ensemble multi-camera comedy The Great Indoors, starring Joel McHale.

Here's the CBS Fall 2016-2017 schedule:

Monday

8pm The Big Bnag Theory
8:30pm Kevin Can Wait

8pm Kevin Can Wait (NEW)
8:30pm Man With a Plan (NEW)
9pm 2 Broke Girls
9:30pm The Odd Couple
10pm Scorpion

Tuesday
8pm NCIS
9pm Bull (NEW)
10pm NCIS: New Orleans

Wednesday
8pm Survivor
9pm Criminal Minds
10pm Code Black

Thursday
8pm NFL Thursday Night Football (Premieres Sept. 15)
5pm PT

8pm The Big Bang Theory (Oct. 27th)
8:30pm The Great Indoors (Starting Oct. 27th) (NEW)
9pm Mom (starting Oct. 27th)
9:30pm Life in Pieces (Starting Oct. 27th)
10pm Pure Genius (Starting Oct. 27th) (NEW)

Friday
8pm MacGyver (NEW)
9pm Hawaii Five-O
10pm Blue Bloods

Saturday
8pm Crimetime Saturday
9pm Crimetime Staturday
10pm 48 Hours

Sunday
7pm 60 Minutes
8pm NCIS: Los Angeles
9pm Madam Secretary
10pm Elementary