With two strikes pummeling Hollywood, CBS pivots to Yellowstone for fall schedule
The one-two punch of the writers and actors strikes means a television landscape littered with reruns and reality
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Yellowstone is finally ready for primetime, and all it took was the complete and utter shutdown of Hollywood.
Taylor Sheridan’s hit ranch-based soap opera is coming to CBS for a two-hour block on Sunday nights, taking the Equalizer timeslot. The jump to the network is a long time coming, considering the show originated on the Paramount Network, streamed on Peacock, and survived the Paramount+ rebrand to become one of the most watched and least discussed shows on TV. All this before the show’s endless spate of spin-offs launched, its star quit, and Sheridan decided to call the whole thing off after this upcoming fifth season—worry not: a sequel series was already announced. The saga of Yellowstone’s broadcast history will, no doubt, be what the spin-off “2023” will revolve around.
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA
strikes have ground showbusiness to a halt. Unable to make a deal with
striking writers and performers because asking for a fair wage and a
lack of algorithmically-generated television shows is “disturbing” and “disruptive” behavior, studios and networks must now sell cable subscribers on a pretty dismal 2023–24 fall lineup. Networks like CBS and ABC have leveraged their reality and game shows that don’t fall under the jurisdiction of either guild to any fill holes—hence why something called FBI True, a true crime docuseries produced under the FBI branding for Paramount+, is coming to CBS this fall.
Yellowstone will be joined by other streaming shows, like the David Borenaz-led SEAL Team, which originated on CBS before jumping to Paramount+. Unfortunately for followers of the Goodiverse, SEAL Team airs Thursday nights instead of the upcoming Good Wife/Fight spin-off Elsbeth. CBS will supplement airing reruns of these shows by bringing the U.K. version of Ghosts stateside, where the network hopes it will attract fans of the American Ghosts.
Of course, all this will be bolstered by sports, game shows, and union-free reality shows like Big Brother, The Amazing Race, and Survivor. The fast-paced Bingo competition Lotería Loca will take the spot intended for The Neighborhood and Bob Hearts Abishola. Raid The Cage, a remake of an Israeli gameshow, will air Fridays instead of Fire Country. Finally, and most bafflingly, a reality adaptation of the Josh Duhamel comedy Buddy Games, a 2020 movie eaten alive by the pandemic that must’ve done serious numbers on streaming, will slot in for So Help Me Todd before Blue Bloods reruns gently rock viewers to sleep.
The full schedule is below, and boy, is it bleak:
Monday 8 p.m. EST: Lotería Loca 9 p.m. EST: NCIS 10 p.m. EST: “Paramount+ Original TBA” (Deadline has their money on Evil going here—though NCIS: Hawai’iwas initially intended to take that slot)
Tuesday 8 p.m. EST: Big Brother 9 p.m. EST: FBI True 10 p.m. EST: FBI
Wednesday 8 p.m. EST: Survivor 9:30 p.m. EST: The Amazing Race
Thursday (early fall) 8 p.m. EST: Big Brother 9 p.m. EST: Buddy Games 10 p.m. EST: The Challenge: USA
(Late fall) 8 p.m. EST: Young Sheldon 8:30 p.m. EST: Ghosts 9 p.m. EST: GHosts(U.K.) 10 p.m. EST: SEAL Team
Friday 8 p.m. EST: The Price Is Right At Night/Let’s Make A Deal Primetime 9 p.m. Raid The Cage 10 p.m. Blue Bloods Classics
Saturday 8 p.m. EST: Sports! 10 p.m. EST: 48 Hours
Sunday (Football singleheader) 7 p.m. EST: 60 Minutes 8 p.m. EST: Yellowstone 9 p.m. EST Yellowstone 10 p.m. EST: Big Brother
(Football doubleheader) 7 p.m. EST: Sports! 7:30 pm EST: 60 Minutes 9 p.m. EST: Yellowstone 10 p.m. EST: Big Brother
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Might we get to see some of the shows/movies that were completed, but then shelved for tax writeoffs?I don’t remember all of them now, but there was Batgirl movie, and seasons of Snowpiercer and Chad I think, among others.Could fans finally seeing some of these projects that got spiked by cost cutting execs be a silver lining in the desperation for content.
I believe unlikely since the stipulation of the tax writeoffs is they cant use/profit from them.
Most of them were pretty recent, so the actual writeoff may not have happened yet.And priorities may have changed enough that the content may look more valuable than the writeoff now.
If you think they can fend off the IRS now, think again. Those movie accountant job was to make any studio didn’t gain any profit while they can prove to the IRS that they still receive the same amount of tax from the sub contractor, sub publisher and various people that generated from movie industry. They can even use the strike as an excuse to lessen the taxes they pay this year. But they can’t undo tax write off.
“But they can’t undo tax write off.”You can. You just have to pay the money back to the IRS that you got as a write off and file the right paperwork.
That just means they would have to file an amendment to the return and lose out on what ever tax break they initial got. Its not impossible and if the studios are looking at months without any original content, it may be worth paying the IRS that money back to release something new to keep viewers
I’m still pissed about Snowpiercer. I feel like it was a show made specifically for me, and it was a miracle that they not only made it, but renewed it, three times, and I can’t watch the final season because “reasons.”
Season 2 of Chad landed at the Roku Channel, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a network picks up Snowpiercer Season 4 soon. Most of the completed-but-cancelled shows were shopped around to other networks. Now if Netflix throws up the half-completed season of GLOW, that would make me a happy camper.
I thought GLOW only filmed for a few days before lockdown so there probably wasn’t enough for even a full episode.
Ah, maybe you’re right.
Definitely not with respect to Batgirl. The others may appear on other channels or streamers.
“Might we get to see some of the shows/movies that were completed, but then shelved for tax writeoffs?”
No, as they were SHELVED FOR TAX WRITEOFFS.Jesus.
I definitely wanna see that new season of Snowpiercer. Come on Netflix, you’ll say yes to anything, go get it and show it before the end of this year.
“8 p.m. EST: Lotería Loca 9 p.m. EST: NCIS 10 p.m. EST”Are they airing NCIS re-runs?
They may have a full season in the can already. It isn’t like that is a difficult show to make or if anybody bothers with reshoots.
During the 177th season of NCIS: New Orleans, the series became sentient and no longer needs writers, cast, or crew.
I forget the exact math I worked out and the number that I ended up with, but by NCIS logic for the murders that occur you would be four times more likely to be murdered by joining the Navy in the United States than not joining.
Damn. I need to get away from that Navy Yard. Looking at some places up north…what do you think?
CBS’s reboot of “Murder, She Wrote” is coming for you.
I thought that was cancelled?
Straight up just run nonstop Murder She Wrote
This and Colombo. Just hours of old people solving crime.
Throw in Diagnosis Murder for the hat trick.
How are they going to air Yellowstone on CBS?Its fully of swearing, violence and nudity.Its a bad enough show to begin with, but if its censored to shit, it will be damn near impossible to watch.
That was my thought as well. I might watch the first episode just to see how they handle that.
Y’know what else CBS could throw out there? Star Trek: Discovery (shut up).Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.Star Trek: Lower Decks.Star Trek: Prodigy (if the tax writeoff hasn’t taken effect – which is fucking ludicrous, by the way).Star Trek: Pic – nah. Fuck it, why not? Star Trek: Picard.Hal – oh, god no. And I’m not reneging on that one. And, for the record, I’m not saying no to that one because I hate what they did with Master Chief; I couldn’t fucking care less. It’s just a bad series.
Isn’t Halo season 2 supposed to be out soon? The first season ended over a year ago.
I have no idea. Whenever it comes out, I won’t be watching.
“Yellowstone is finally ready for primetime”Yes, because famously it premieres on the Paramount Network in mid-afternoon, not in primetime.