Oveer the years, bnoth CBS and Fox have had to deal with NFL football "run-overs": Games going past 7 P.M. Eastern time.

Fox usually deals with this by joining programs in progress so local affiliates' late newscasts in the Eastern half of the country (10 P.M. EDT/EST; 9 CDT/CST) start on-time.

CBS usually will "push back" the Sunday prime-time scehdule, meaning that sometimes, Sunday-night late local news on CBS stations, usually at 11 P.M. ET, sometimes doesn't start until 11:30.

I would think CBS affiliate managers are probably unhappy over this state of affairs.

Therefore, I wonder if CBS might consider making a change during the Fall:

(1) Have an "NFL Today" post-game show (or the conclusion of the game itself) run until 7:30 P.M. ET.

(2) Expand "60 Minutes" to 90 minutes during football season, and have it run from 7:30 to 9 ET.

(3) Include two short (5-6 minutes each) segments in each show that would not be promoted and could be deleted should "60" not begin until afetr 7:30.

(4) The idea is that "60 Minutes" would always end at 9, and late local Sunday-night news on local CBS stations would always start at 11.

(5) After football season, "60 Minutes" goes back to it's regular time (7-8 P.M. ET) and length (one hour). Something else goes into the 8-9 timeslot.

What do you think??

I think your idea is very, very smart. CBS would have one less hour they'd have to program on a Sunday night, which means they could move one of the dramas to another night to shore up any small holes in their sked. They could also use the fall Sundays to air longer 60 Minutes pieces, which I imagine would make their producers and stars happy. However, it's doubtful the network would think to do something like this because they don't much care what time thelocal newscasts start, or how much money local stations have to credit to late-runs.

I don;t think it will happen anytiome in the near future, but 60 Minutes needs to move.

A Friday Night Slot would be perfect for this. 20/20 has done well there for years, decades.

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Originally posted by Joseph:
Oveer the years, bnoth CBS and Fox have had to deal with NFL football "run-overs": Games going past 7 P.M. Eastern time. . . .

Therefore, I wonder if CBS might consider making a change during the Fall:

(1) Have an "NFL Today" post-game show (or the conclusion of the game itself) run until 7:30 P.M. ET.

(2) Expand "60 Minutes" to 90 minutes during football season, and have it run from 7:30 to 9 ET.

(3) Include two short (5-6 minutes each) segments in each show that would not be promoted and could be deleted should "60" not begin until afetr 7:30.

(4) The idea is that "60 Minutes" would always end at 9, and late local Sunday-night news on local CBS stations would always start at 11.

(5) After football season, "60 Minutes" goes back to it's regular time (7-8 P.M. ET) and length (one hour). Something else goes into the 8-9 timeslot.

What do you think??

I think it's a great idea, but we're talking CBS here, and when do they ever try anything new?

They're the no. 1 network, and as long as they continue to be just that, there will be no innovations from the CBSiverse.

To CBS, the season starts the third week in September. There are no late-summer early starts. Repeats are sprinkled in throughout the Sept.-May season, and "60 Minutes" will always be scheduled as if football overruns didn't exist and so we will never know precisely when "Cold Case" will start.

Oh wait a minute? That's right! "Jericho." They certainly handled THAT well, didn't they?

No way 60 Minutes moves. Its a Sunday staple and no other program can pull 11 million on Sundays at 7. The demos in that hour really don't matter because there aren't a whole lot of viewers to begin with. Plus, its a cash cow for the network the way it is and fits with older skewing Cold Case and Without a Trace. Find a third older skewing drama like those two (maybe the Man?) and let the night go.

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
I don;t think it will happen anytiome in the near future, but 60 Minutes needs to move.

A Friday Night Slot would be perfect for this. 20/20 has done well there for years, decades.

Umm... that would require a name change... why not just encore a comedy or show a new one?

not necessarily- it could be a "special edition" of 60 Minutes every other week.

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Originally posted by Ginger:
Umm... that would require a name change... why not just encore a comedy or show a new one?

i think your idea is stupid i mean nothing makes me anfrier than my show be ing started 15mintues into show or not being seen at all i applaud CBS for starting there shows from the begning no matter how long football runs on sunday why should i even invest my time in a show if u are not gonna start it from the begning move Cold Case back to 8pm Without a Trace to 9pm and put Shark at 10pm keep 60minutes at 7pm and move Amazing Race to Thursday's 2 editions first Survivor then Amazing Race back to another Survior and followed by another edition of Amazing race