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CBS Picks Up Five New Shows
« on: Oct 29th, 2003, 9:56am » |
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CBS Picks Up Five New Shows
(Tuesday, October 28 12:25 PM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - As a reward for helping keep the network near the top of the ratings heap, CBS has picked up five of its first-year series for a full season.
The network has asked for the back nine episodes of its sole new comedy, "Two and a Half Men," and dramas "Cold Case," "Joan of Arcadia," "Navy NCIS" and "The Handler." The pickups assure CBS of a better track record than last fall, when "Bram and Alice," "Presidio Med" and "Robbery Homicide Division" didn't make it through their freshman years.
Conspicuously, but not surprisingly, absent from the pickup list is CBS' sixth new series, "The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H." The David E. Kelley-produced drama is drawing under 7 million viewers a week and has been pulled for November sweeps.
The five CBS shows join FOX's "The O.C.," NBC's "Las Vegas" and UPN's "All of Us" and "Eve" in being assured of a full-season order. ABC and NBC have ordered more scripts for some of their new comedies -- a good sign for a new show -- but haven't pulled the trigger on full-season orders for them.
"Two and a Half Men," which stars Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer as odd-couple brothers, is the most-watched new show of the season thus far and in the Top 10 overall, averaging 15.9 million viewers a week in the plumb post-"Everybody Loves Raymond" timeslot on Mondays.
The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced "Cold Case," with 13.5 million viewers at 8 p.m. ET Sundays, is the top-rated new drama of the season. "Navy NCIS" (12.3 million viewers) and "Joan of Arcadia" (11.6 million) are also in the Top 30 among total viewers.
"The Handler," which stars Joe Pantoliano as the leader of a group of undercover FBI agents, is farther down in the rankings, drawing an average audience of 9.6 million people. That's about 30 percent more viewers than "RHD" did in the 10 p.m. Friday spot last year.
CBS is averaging just under 12.8 million viewers a night this season, slightly behind FOX's 12.83 million. CBS will likely take the lead in coming weeks now that major league baseball's postseason, which boosted FOX's numbers in October, has ended.
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