Following NBC’s and ABC’s schedule announcements earlier this week, CBS came out with theirs today.
Two disappointments for me personally: first, they canned Jericho, a show that started out kind of weak last year but improved in the second half of the season; and second, they didn’t pick up the zombie drama called Babylon Fields that was rumored last week. Per MSNBC, Jericho started strong last fall, but “many viewers abandoned the show after it went on a long midseason hiatus.” Ah well … I guess we’ll never know what happened in the big battle that started at the end of the Jericho finale.
Some of the new series they’ve announced for next season include:
–Moonlight, about a vampire private eye.
–Cane, about a Cuban-American family running a rum business in South Florida, with a pretty heavy-duty cast that includes Jimmy Smits, Hector Elizondo and Rita Moreno.
–Hugh Jackman’s Viva Laughlin, an adaptation of the BBC show Viva Blackpool, about a shady businessman. With musical numbers.
–Swingtown, which takes the 24/Lost approach and will run uninterrupted next spring. It’s about 1970s swingers.
UPDATE: Jericho will be back at mid-season.
