[Wright is right!]

"You're 100% spot on about the network being carried on the drawing power of tandem CSI shows...they even used two of them as filler for the time slot that was to have the RR slash job."

Those were the CSI season-opening two-parters. Repeats, en otras palabras. Frankly, if See BS didn't have Bruckheimer and "Survivor," they'd be coming in behind UPN and WB. The only show they've got in the top 10 other than Bruck and 'Vivor is "Everybody Over 70 With Blue Hair Loves Raymond." And that's because it's on Monday, with "Fear Factor" and Futebol as competition.

When I watch the NFL on Sunday (our team is almost always on See BS), I'm struck by all the show promos for shows we never would ever watch. Mostly lamer comedies that fall in the last 1/3 of the ratings heap.

If Bruckheimer were to get a better production deal at NBC, SeeBS would tank.

Michael

[Range Rover]

I escaped the Broadcasting end of the biz a few years ago but if my past experience is indicative of most, you just don't have time to waste on BAD TV. If I get an hour a night, I'm lucky. Ironic....work in Television and can't find the time to watch.

NBC was banking on The West Wing being evergreen - too self absorbed to see the eventual distaste a portion of the audience would develop due to the show's preachy nature and the unhinged personality of its anchor star. CSI has less potential for that kind of destruction but if it ever "comes on the market", the bidding war could tear it inside-out...CBS will pay a king's ransom to keep it, ABC and NBC will bid it way up to hurt CBS. For the Eye to be dependent on only a handful of shows indicates how precarious the network's status is.