Super Bowl Means Scripted Back on CBS

[Mark Jeffries]

The BIg Game on Feb. 10 will be the Eye's official call for the return of scripted programming, with the new Justin Hartley action drama tracker getting the coveted post-Super Bowl slot as originally announced. The following night, the schedules start to return to normal ("Neighborhood"/"Abishola"/"NCIS Original"/"NCIS Hawaii" on Monday, Dick Wolf FBI Night on Tuesday, "Young Sheldon"/"Ghosts USA"/"So Help Me Todd" and the "Good Wife/Fight" spinoff "Elsbeth" on Thursday, "SWAT"/"Fire Country"/"Blue Bloods" on Friday and "Equalizer" after "60 Minutes," "Tracker" in its regular slot and "CSI Reboot" on Sunday). In the only night remaining the same, "Survivor" and "TAR" will play 90-minute episodes on Wednesday (meaning that since a season of "TAR" is on hold because they were made in the hour format, either they taped another season or Van Munster is reformatting the season in the can to the 90-minute format), with "Survivor" starting in late February with two weeks of two-hour episodes:

https://www.thewrap.com/cbs-2023-2024-winter-schedule/

And the Kathy Bates "Matlock" reboot and the Damon Wayans pere et fil sitcom "Poppa's House" have been postponed to the fall--if you want to see a Wayans on CBS before then, hope that "Raid the Cage" with Damon Jr. gets renewed.

And speaking of the Big Game, after that initial promo last week with Drew Barrymore, all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob and some people I didn't recognize, CBS/Nick/Paramount+ hasn't run any "Super Bowl Countdown" promos since then, unless they're running only on sports for now.

[Diner]

Just saw an "88 Days Until the Super Bowl" card in the closing credits of The Price Is Right.