Sunday nights at 10pm marks the last hour of our hour by hour coverage of the fall broadcast schedule. No new shows, but CSI: Miami moves to a new time slot and faces off against Brothers & Sisters and Sunday Night Football.
Sunday Nights 10pm-11pm:
| Sunday | 10:00p | 10:30p |
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Brothers & Sisters | |
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CSI: Miami | |
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Sunday Night Football |
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Who'll Win? A no-brainer pick: Sunday Night Football. As I mentioned in the post for Thursdays @10pm, who wins is fun for discussion and sport, but it doesn't matter nearly as much as the actual ratings. If Brothers & Sisters edges out CSI: Miami for second place but has lower ratings then it did last year, ABC won't be thrilled. Conversely, CBS could conceivably come in last for the hour and still significantly improve the Sunday 10pm hour versus last year and be happy.
While I of course look for CSI: Miami to perform worse Sundays at 10pm than it did on Mondays at 10pm last season with a Big Bang Theory lead-in, I fully expect it to perform better than Cold Case. My guess is after the premiere week dust settles it will better Brothers & Sisters with adults 18-49.
You can find all the previous hour-by-hour coverage here.
Looks like B&S is gonna go out on a whimper and get cancelled, a few of the main cast are going and it has been getting quite recently, running out of ideas.
Even though it doesn’t have much competition, the ratings for DH will probably be going down after the season premier which wont help any
CSI: Miami averaged 12-13m last season so I think it should be looking at 11-12m even with Undercover Boss as lead in, it should indeed be an improvement on previous years but Miami will suffer from NFL overruns pushing it back and no doubt affect its ratings.
I’m far from claiming Spidey sense when it comes to future network intentions (not like other “frenemies” in the TV media), but it seems that CBS is positioning at least 2 of the 3 CSI’s in (what I’m sure they hope are) “decline gracefully” timeslots. (perhaps all 3 if you view keeping CSI on Thursday 9pm as a sacrificial move).They are either against big competition (SNF, Thursday 9pm shows) or in the Friday show graveyard.Seems like a good strategy to me, their future is no longer the CSI’s.
I’m far from claiming Spidey sense when it comes to future network intentions (not like other “frenemies” in the TV media), but it seems that CBS is positioning at least 2 of the 3 CSI’s in (what I’m sure they hope are) “decline gracefully” timeslots. (perhaps all 3 if you view keeping CSI on Thursday 9pm as a sacrificial move).They are either against big competition (SNF, Thursday 9pm shows) or in the Friday show graveyard.Seems like a good strategy to me, their future is no longer the CSI’s.
Football wins, we all agree. I’m a fan of Brothers & Sisters but alas it is probably time to say good-bye as it and I have grown a bit tired. I might take another look at CSI Miami now that it is off Mondays. Will cable affect this time slot? It’s a bit confusing to me because I get DirecTV feed from the east coast and I can never figure out when some of the cable stuff is actually on.
I don’t see the Undercover Boss crowd sticking around fro CIS Miami assuming Boss gets good numbers all season – a proposition I think isn’t a slam dunk by any means.
Brothers & Sisters comes in second by a tenth or two and CSI makes it one more season after this, perhaps on Fridays after CSI NY gets canceled .
I hate the picture!!! LOL
As much as I love Brothers & Sisters, there is no escaping it – this is the last season. ABC should just announce it as such. Four cast members have departed the show, the order for the season is only 18 episodes and Sally Field, Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths will each appear in only 17 of those. Add to that the overly soapy storylines they have in store for this season and many JTS moments and this show is the epitome of a sinking ship.
CSI: Miami will probably lose a couple of demo points but will still come in second in the slot.
NBC – Sunday Night Football – 7s or 8s
CBS – CSI: Miami – 3.0
ABC – Brothers & Sisters – 2.5
i just hope csi:miami performs good enough to not get cancelled
The timeslot changes for CSI Miami and NY is CBS’ way of letting the shows run their course while hopefully improve the weaker timeslots and allowing new shows to take their old timeslots. I’m surprised CSI wasn’t bumped to 10pm swapping places with The Mentalist or moved to another timeslot but I guess that they didn’t want to make too many changes in one season and I predict if the 8pm comedies do well then CSI will be moved next to make for a drama or maybe more comedy.
I predict CSI: NY will be cancelled first but given time to wrap up any loose ends, Miami and Vegas will last a bit longer but I think they will start shedding their casts.
Brothers & Sister will take second for a while. Later when people realize how ridiculous they are getting CSI will start to take second.
I still can’t believe ABC did not change anything about it’s Sunday lineup.
Clearly the CSIs serve a double purpose: to find out if even a big budget, big name show can survive on Friday / Sunday before giving in to reality and repeats, and to “gracefully replace” the procedurals before they get too old and too expensive (the root cause of CBS’ last collapse). I doubt either Miami or NY survive into next season.
Much like Private Practice, B&S mostly depends on the mothership. I don’t expect B&S to get any help there.
To summarize:
SNF 7+ (Depends on TBA schedule)
CSI:Miami 3.0
B&S 2.9
P.S. If you want extra traffic this weekend, I suggest you put up your “What will be the hits of the Season” poll. Heck, with Hellcats starting Wednesday, it should go up soon.
NFL Football wins with probably 7-8 as mentioned and 17-20M viewers. CSI Miami finishes 2nd with 12-13M and 3-3.5 and unfortunately Brothers & Sisters ends on a whimper with 8-9M viewers and probably 2.5. Shonda Rhimes new show Off the Map is already replacing it midseason, so look at these 18 episodes as the last.
Gary Sinise’s contract for CSI: NY only run untl 2011 anyway so they can cancel it next season without too many issues. I think this will be CSI’s last season in the 9pm Thursday and I think it’ll be moved to Fridays for a couple of seasons before CBS decide to pull the plug.
If cancellation of B&S is as definite as you guys are saying, does that mean ABC will do everything to make sure DH continues and gets the ladies to sign up for more? Or it’s possible both shows die at the same time?
i think they will change it later, They will replace B&S with Off the map, just like greys anatomy and boston legal.
Theres lot of hype surrounding Vanessa Williams joining the cast of Desperate Housewives. I think it could make a comeback this season which can help Brothers & Sisters.
Its time for CSI to die already. Enough!
Looks like another night of DVRing cable, I can not stand CSI with David.
Personally I think that we’ll see the ends of CSI: Miami and B&S after this season.
the bad news is if B&S bombs early, then ABC will probably put on 2-hour eps of Funniest Home Videos or Dancing With The Stars Recap shows
snf 1, csi miami second. b & s third.
csi ny is a goner after this season. csi miami will be a goner after next season. and csi las vegas will be a goner after 2012-2013 season