Comments on: Updated: White Collar will not be paired with Burn Notice

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:19:38 +0000

I think Royal Pains and Burn Notice are a great pair and worked over the summer and I say if it ain’t broke don’t fix it

By: Les

Les — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:20:01 +0000

I’ll watch Psych whatever bight it’s on. I just hope White Collar can make it on Tuesdays. It hasn’t been on too long, but I’ve already grown quite attached to it.

By: ASH

ASH — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:12:02 +0000

I’m glad Burn Notice is going back to it’s original time slot on Thurs. at 10 p.m. it was a welcome show for me following CSI on CBS after they moves Without A Trace and I was fed up of ER. Thursday is the only night I’m home to watch any TV so I’m happy with this new set up.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:53 +0000

Wise and expected. NBC proper gets cheaper at 10, and the missing viewers go to the dual revenue cable shows – NBC Uni’s probable plan from the beginning. Again, Fox’s 10pm hour has been… FX, for the last seven years, and it works for them.

I like the individual scheduling too – Burn Notice can probably net big budget movie advertising (the real goal of all Thursday scheduling), and (without knowing the ABC scheduling yet), White Collar offers a sorta-police procedural on the one night CBS doesn’t air one at 10, while Psych gets the weakest of the CSIs (and probably offers a fluffy counterpoint to FX’s Damages*).

*How USA & FX fare directly against each other is the real question we should be asking. I could see FX’s Archer’s dude-programming suffering vs. Burn, for instance.

By: Cambios para Burn Notice y Psych - Blog de Series

Cambios para Burn Notice y Psych - Blog de Series — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:48:11 +0000

[...] de la cadena USA Network, pero en las ultimas horas sus ejecutivos nos sorprendieron al realizar grandes cambios en los días y fechas de estreno de Burn Notice, Psych y White [...]

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:50:02 +0000

so does this mean that White Collar will have a winter/spring season unlike Royal Pains which is also new this year? Cause IPS won’t be back until spring and RP until summer as is usual with 1st season shows on USA…….

By: Woohoo!

Woohoo! — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:24:03 +0000

I’m glad they bumped up BN to 10pm because now it won’t clash with Fringe!

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:05:12 +0000

I know a lot of people are going to focus on Leno as a factor in this move, but I think this could be more a move against TNT. For the last few years USA and TNT have avoided airing originals against each other. USA had Sunday, Thursday and Friday; TNT had Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Since TNT’s stronger shows air at 9, that leaves the 10 pm slot more vulnerable.

By: Grace W.

Grace W. — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:17:45 +0000

@ Jon: “…also, this is the first time [Psych] has aired without a lead in.”

It won’t have an original show as its lead in, but isn’t Wednesday the night that USA typically runs a large (3 hour?) NCIS block? I’m pretty sure at least one of the Wednesday airings of NCIS tends to make the cable top 25 regularly, so if they keep the NCIS airings on Wednesday before Psych it might get a pretty good lead in from that.

By: elaine

elaine — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:43:18 +0000

Don’t know how I got along without a DVR to record 2 shows at the same time. White Collar is my favorite new show and that is saying a lot since I also love Vampire Diaries. Looking forward to Burn Notice also.

By: daniel patrick

daniel patrick — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:14:05 +0000

so is psych moving to wednesday, cause that would be great only a half hour of nothing to watch on wednesday (7:30 mt)

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:29:44 +0000

EDIT – Plus I suppose with the retooling of In Plain Sight and Criminal Intent taking into account USA could opt to delay their returns until the full summer schedule kicks in, which would allow them to run a full two-hour prime time schedule Monday – Friday if they debut two new dramas as well.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:21:40 +0000

I wonder how much of this is USA testing the waters on expanding their original programming schedule and moving closer to a full week long schedule. By my count come the end of January USA will have oringal content Monday-Thursday at 10PM, with WWE Raw also in the 9PM hour on Monday nights. Its not hard to imagine them having an additional drama (maybe Royal Pains if not something new) to slot into the Friday slot by midseason 2011 in fact they could easily do it for Summer 2010.

Monday – WWE Raw
Tuesday – White Collar
Wednesday – Psych
Thursday – Burn Notice
Friday – Royal Pains

That seems like a pretty big cable line-up to me. You can there pair up new dramas with Royal Pains and Burn Notice on Friday and Thursday at least if White Collar and Psych aren’t strong enough to move to 9PM.

By: Devorak

Devorak — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:25:21 +0000

The Comcast leaks have always confirmed that Zucker would keep his job. They’ve also always failed to confirm just how long they intend to keep him. Big business conglomeration between publicly traded entities always carries political type maneuvering. In other words, don’t scare the stockholders by declaring radical change before the deal is finalized.

Additionally, Comcast has also stated repeatedly that Zucker would be reporting directly to one of its own people. The name escapes my memory, but it’s an easy Google search if you need it.

I’ll agree on this though, as long as Zucker is in the mix, it’d be foolish to think that NBC will automatically start programming for ratings instead of margins.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:47:36 +0000

Maybe good news in the long run. Its better for USA to air 10pm during more weekdays then just 9 and 10 on Thurs, Fri and Sun. Expansion seems like a smart idea.

By: LindH

LindH — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:12:35 +0000

Well this works better for me. I’m already watching/DVRing Supernatural and Fringe at 9:00 on Thursdays, so I was going to have to DVR one of the reruns of Burn Notice. Now I can watch all three when they are shown. Putting Psych against Leverage will mean DVRing one and viewing the other and I’m going to have to deal with BN vs Mentalist, but this still makes watching all my shows easier, so I’m happy.

By: izikavazo

izikavazo — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:56:52 +0000

Here’s some more wishful thinking. What if NBC folds USA into itself. Perhaps they could replace Jay Leno with these shows. Are the ratings better? I’m sure they would get better on NBC.
Heh heh heh, if only the world worked like that.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:27:06 +0000

It does seem pretty odd that they would change Psych’s day when it’s been on Friday for 3.5 years. I’m a bet worked about how it’s going to do, both without it’s lead in and on a different day.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:05:53 +0000

Surprising about some of the changes as Psych has been on Fridays for so long and also this is the first time it has aired without a lead in, White Collar is doing well at the moment but Tuesday seem an odd day for it, Burn Notice at 10pm is interesting as did well at 9pm and against The Mentalist would dent its audience slightly.

Wonder what happening to Fridays and Sundays? I bet Law & Order CI is moving to Friday and In Plain Sight is remaining on Sundays.

By: chrisjozo

chrisjozo — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:34:30 +0000

The most interesting thing to me is that Psych is moving to Wednesday at 10pm/9central. That’s the same time TNT airs Leverage and FX airs Damages. Wednesdays will be a very busy night for me.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:12:12 +0000

Milton, perhaps you should have been paying more attention to who’s been running the businesses for the last several years.

Jeff Zucker has been the boss of the head of USA for his four years as CEO of NBCU. And it’s rumored he will run the new entity that will come out of the Comcast deal.

And Jeff Gaspin, who, since July, runs all of NBCU’s broadcast and cable (and TV studio) businesses (and works for Zucker) previously ran just NBCU’s cable businesses (including USA).

Your comment seems to be another one of the many in the “the Comcast deal will change everything” wishful thinking meme.

By: Milton

Milton — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:02:29 +0000

Whenever the Comcast takeover happens, I wouldn’t be surprised if USA execs get the NBC execs’ jobs.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:39:01 +0000

Collar*

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:37:01 +0000

cant wait for a new White Coller toinght i think USA is great network and its prove to be a great network cant what to see what there next show will be

By: Schmoker

Schmoker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:32:16 +0000

Pretty funny that USA is going to take a pipe to the knee of the Jay Leno Show, considering that USA is an NBCU network.

So much for synergy at NBCU.

By: Hot Pocket

Hot Pocket — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:15:29 +0000

Looks like USA is trying to test out some new nights for originals. Pretty soon USA will programming at least six nights a week.

Only real worry I have is the Winter Olympics which will be live in that 10pm hour in February. That will effect the USA shows big time.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:06:18 +0000

shame was looking forward to the pairing of burn notice and white collar

By: Altair

Altair — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:54:46 +0000

Why Psych beginning at 27 Jan. instead of the previous week like the others 2?