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...True to its spirit, CBS convened at Carnegie Hall Wednesday and announced "a rather conservative schedule," in the words of CBS president Leslie Moonves, who spoke to reporters at a press breakfast. There are three new dramas, one of which is another "CSI" - this one set in New York, where apparently they have crimes - which will take on "Law & Order" in a Big Apple murder showdown on Wednesday nights. ("I'm not even thinking of a fourth 'CSI,'" Moonves said dryly. "Not at least for another year.") There are only two new sitcoms, in part because they convinced Ray Romano...
...Still, the network had to fill its presentation with something, and CBS spent much of its time trashing the competition. It started with a Beatles tribute band playing tunes like the following, referring to NBC president Jeff Zucker, who made a statement last year apologizing for the quality of some of his own shows...
...CBS then laid into NBC's longstanding claim to be the "quality" network, grossing out the advertisers with a reel of clips of contestants eating offal and vomiting on "Fear Factor." "Product placement, anyone?" Moonves asked. A few minutes later, they played a trailer for the new Jason Alexander sitcom "Listen Up" - he plays a sports columnist - whose big punch line involved Alexander spitting up milk into a glass, twice. CBS: home of classy effluvia...
...voices the lead character in NBC's new family sitcom "Father of the Pride." (He plays a lion there, but still.) "Center of the Universe," says Moonves, went over extremely well with test audiences, though that's usually just a synonym for "somebody famous is in the pilot." (CBS's Charlie Sheen hit, "Two and a Half Men," tested well - but so did "Emeril...
...Saturday nights at 9 p.m. (The drawback: it was planned to run this summer, but they may hold the summer season for September.) On the flip side, for all you fans of "Yes, Dear" - the ratings tell me you actually do exist - the sitcom is off the fall schedule; CBS has ordered 13 episodes as a midseason replacement...