FRIDAY
SHILO: 8:00 The Amazing Race; 9:00 Hawaii Five-0; 10:00 Blue Bloods
CRAIG: 8:00 Supergirl; 9:00 Hawaii Five-0; 10:00 Blue Bloods
SHILO: The Amazing Race is cheap, doesn’t take long to film, and rakes in awards, so even though it’s taking a drama slot, I don’t think CBS will banish it to summer just yet, especially since it doesn’t have an adverse impact on Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods. There’s a slight, slight chance that this season could see only one cycle of The Amazing Race, but even in that case, this show will still be on in the fall, with the replacement coming in the spring.
I thought Hawaii Five-0 might be vulnerable this season given its weak-ish premiere and CBS’s cup running over with dramas, but it’s been remarkably steady and more than earned its renewal. And honestly, it might’ve helped squeeze out something like Code Black, which is a show that could’ve possibly survived on one of CBS’s book-ended procedural farms.
On a similar token, Blue Bloods gonna Blue Bloods. It’s strange that arguably CBS’s strongest 10:00 drama airs on Fridays, but this is a show that will outlive us all and air in syndication in perpetuity. It’s Tom Selleck’s world, everybody; we just live in it.
CRAIG: I’m going to take a big swing on Fridays, also, and put Supergirl on Fridays at 8. There was once a time when Fridays at 8 on CBS were a big family hour; a lot of Fridays of my childhood were spent watching a show about two guys in an orange car with an unfortunate flag on their roof that keeps them from reruns.
My biggest argument for putting Supergirl on in the fall is that Warner Bros. Television really, really seems to want to make this work, and being on Fridays would keep it away from all of the other superhero mess earlier in the week. (The notion that Supergirl and Gotham were in the same timeslot is forever perplexing to me.) Where Gotham can take Mondays, The Flash Tuesdays, Arrow Wednesdays, and now Legends of Tomorrow Thursdays, this would give DC Comics fans a good, solid show every night of the week.
Now, if CBS were to hold Supergirl for a midseason run on Sundays or something, I wouldn’t be against it, provided the scheduling is more consistent than the “two weeks on, one week off” type deal that the network did with Season 1. I’d be okay with a move to The CW, too, so long as my queen Calista Flockhart isn’t cut from the budget in the process. Ultimately, I just really want a Season 2, so get on that, CBS.
