Last Updated on February 18, 2022
When CBS, which has been on a major roll for several seasons now, presented its lineup to advertisers, there weren’t that many new shows to talk about, since there weren’t that many holes in their schedule from last season.
In fact, counting Survivor, which is “new” only because it’ll be in a new location with a new collection of castaways, there are only six shows making their first appearance this fall on the Eye network.
One of the biggest talkers in this year’s presentation was the appearance of Ashton Kutcher with Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones as the new trio of Two and a Half Men.
There is still no word on what character Kutcher will play or how that character will be incorporated into the show. There’s no word, for that matter, on what is to become of the character of Charlie Harper. All we know is that the show will attempt a ninth season.
I’m pulling for the show to do well.
Charlie Sheen, not surprisingly, is not.
It’ll keep its Monday night time slot at 9 p.m., immediately following the first of CBS’s newest show of the week: 2 Broke Girls, which will air at 8:30 p.m., right after How I Met Your Mother. 2 Broke Girls stars Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs as two struggling waitresses who form an unlikely friendship as they work together to finance a new dream.
On Tuesdays, Unforgettable takes over The Good Wife’s time period at 10 p.m.. (Don’t worry, Good Wife fans: the show is coming back…it’s just moving to Sunday nights. Unforgettable is a detective who has a mind like the proverbial steel trap: she can’t forget anything, except the clues that might solve her sibling’s murder. (There’s always something.)
The granddaddy of reality shows, Survivor is back this fall, this time set in the South Pacific.
Thursdays bring us the new sitcom How to Be a Gentleman at 8:30 p.m., about two guys — which makes me wonder if the title shouldn’t have been How to Be Gentlemen — who are essentially a modern-day odd couple.
Then at 9 p.m., J.J. Abrams presents a vigilante justice drama called Person of Interest, starring Jim Caviezel. The show is about a presumed-dead CIA agent who teams up with a mysterious millionaire software expert who has developed a program that can predict a suspect’s behavior before he commits the crime. This leads the agent to then attempt to intervene to prevent the crime from happening in the first place.
On Friday nights, a medical drama, A Gifted Man, which sounds like it could be about many different things, focuses on a brilliant surgeon who begins getting a different kind of education from beyond the grave from his now-deceased ex.
The weekend goes to returning shows. Like I said, the network with the fewest problems winds up with the fewest number of new shows to talk about.
Here is the CBS fall schedule:
MONDAY
8 p.m. — How I Met Your Mother
8:30 p.m. — 2 Broke Girls (New!)
9:00 p.m. — Two and a Half Men
9:30 p.m. — Mike & Molly
10 p.m. — Hawaii Five-0
TUESDAY
8 p.m. — NCIS
9 p.m. — NCIS: Los Angeles
10 p.m. — Unforgettable (New!)
WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. — Survivor: South Pacific
9 p.m. — Criminal Minds
10 p.m. — CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
THURSDAY
8 p.m. — Big Bang Theory
8:30 p.m. — How to Be a Gentleman (New!)
9 p.m. — Person of Interest (New!)
10 p.m. — The Mentalist
FRIDAY
8 p.m. — A Gifted Man (New!)
9 p.m. — CSI: NY
10 p.m. — Blue Bloods
SATURDAY
8 p.m. — Rules of Engagement
8:30 p.m. — Comedytime Saturday
9 p.m. — Crimetime Saturday
10 p.m. — 48 Hours Mystery
SUNDAY
7 p.m. — 60 Minutes
8 p.m. — The Amazing Race
9 p.m. — The Good Wife
10 p.m. — CSI: Miami
