Word: cbs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wednesday night, "Survivor" followers loyal enough to set aside another weeknight for their favorite zany "reality TV" castaways - and check out what CBS had last week billed as a wild never-before-seen-footage extravaganza - got a clips show...
...CBS did an Al Gore and squandered them. They ran a straight-faced, meticulously chronological, here's-what-you-missed recap of the whole show, Week 1 through Week 8. Twenty-four days in the Outback. New footage? Maybe 10 minutes all told, and nothing spectacular...
...insult to boredom, CBS gave fans a show that did very little to tide them over until NCAA basketball vacates Thursday nights next week. In staying faithful to the arc of the show thus far, tribal council by tribal council, CBS missed a chance to give close readers a tasty treat: More unseen footage of the eight people actually still competing for the million bucks...
...with the only likely suspense of the next three weeks centering on whether one of the three remaining Kucha-ites can crack the Ogakor alliance, it would have behooved CBS to treat viewers to every available insight into the minds of not only Rodger, Elisabeth and Nick but the vulnerable Jerri and the swing vote Colby. At 99 hours a week, there had to have been more of that than what...
...scheduling logic behind this week's rerun is worth mentioning. March Madness is a hallowed tradition at CBS, and good demographics to boot - a pre-emption was out of the question. But if you're wondering why CBS, after pulling off last Wednesday's Week 8 with its ratings unruffled, didn't just run its Week 9 show Wednesday night, I've got two words for you: May sweeps. May sweeps is two weeks long, and the two final episodes of "Survivor 2" will do very big business. But 16 weeks just weren't enough to get "Survivor 2" from...