[Timesink]

Can't wait to watch it flop on Showtime, assuming it even airs. Amazing that CBS found sponsors for it. Maybe they gave them a discount.

Showtime is pay cable, a direct competitor to HBO but in far, far fewer homes. There won't be any advertisers. But if it airs, it WILL be reviewed, and get just the sort of overwhelming "worst. miniseries. EVER." revulsion that Buckman predicts above.

[Bonaparte]

Sorry, I was referring to the sponsors CBS had already lined up for itself (Hallmark and Chevrolet?) before the lateral pass to Showtime.

I suspect it will be re-worked by much more skillful propagandists by air time, but maybe I'm wrong and CBS is even dumber than I think.

[KneelBeforeZod]

I thought this was going to be about the new matrix movie

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Seiskel and Eibert [sic and sic] will love it. But so what? Too little too late!

[jocon307]

"There won't be any advertisers."

I think that explains the Showtime shift. I am assuming this was only switched because the pressure was working on advertisers. I'm guessing especially threatening to boycott Hallmark during the holiday season.

I can only guess that having large numbers of Christians not buying Christmas cards from you is NOT part of Hallmark's business plan.