It’s the upfronts!: CBS

Posted by Maggie May 17th, 2006 at 10:32am In All Things TV News

CBS, what have you done for me lately? Yes, you've gotten me to watch How I Met Your Mother, but I sometimes I feel like I was tricked into it through wonderful casting (Neil Patrick Harris! Jason Segel from Freaks and Geeks! Alyson Hannigan from Buffy! Alyson Hannigan's husband!). But other than that, you've been kind of a void, mostly because I don't watch CSI, nor do I understand the appeal of CSI. So are you going to step up? Offer something I might like to take a chance on?

Here's the 2006-2007 CBS primetime schedule.

Of note: How I Met Your Mother is moving to 8 pm. Who cares. The actor who plays my favorite character from the Broadway show The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (character: Leaf Coneybear, actor: Jesse Tyler Ferguson) is in The Class, the sitcom they're putting on right after HIMYM. That's reason enough for me to watch it, even though I (much like the networks, it seems) have a deep distrust of standard old-school 4-camera sitcoms. Also, I think I once saw him on the street. But once again, who cares. I am SO OVER heist stuff, so Smith is out. James Woods is gross, so Shark is out. And the mushroom-cloud show (Jericho) sounds genuinely frightening, but not necessarily in a way that's making me pumped to watch it.

That's all you've got, CBS?

In other news, I heard Veronica Mars is officially on the CW schedule… though maybe only for 13 episodes. More tomorrow.