Let's be upfront: There's not much on the fall TV schedule

This is the worst I have ever seen tv
with this new format of paid programing
on all the time. I guess they just don't
care weather you watch or not.

Yo, Tom: I've never seen "Shark", but as one of many millions of military TV viewers, I'm glad CBS is bringing back "The Unit". We like it, okay? Sheesh. Don't make me come down there!:-)

I am glad you are just as confused as I am with the logic between taking Shark and Back to You and keeping those other shows.
I must say I don't understand about Moonlight either, it's ratings were only CBS bad but that doesn't mean they were actually bad ratings.
Sad about New Amsterdam, I know it didn't do so well but I loved it.
I'm not watching any network tv anymore except CW and NBC, I will live on cable shows. USA is looking pretty good as always

Smart shows cost money to make. Shark was a smart show. Jericho was a smart show. Both have been killed off by CBS, in some fit of blatant stupidity. I liked The Unit too, without being a military type, but more recently found the storylines lacking in any semblance of believability.

Now Tom... You want to talk about dumb moves by the networks? How about the perennial circling-the-drain mess of Scrubs? I used to like that show, but recent years have gotten extremely sophomoric in the humor. It's Grey's Anatomy without the love dramas, and ER without the catastrophe dramas... Its just stupidity set in a hospital.

And yet ABC wants it when NBC is finally pulling the plug? What the heck is that?

Or better yet, Las Vegas. Season 4 made me not want to watch the show again, but season 5 reminded me what had brought me in, in the first place. They started getting interesting and entertaining again... And NBC pulls the rug out hours before a cliffhanger season finale? Nice, real nice. Way to show that you don't give two rips about the tv viewers.

Imagine what TV would have been like, if Cheers got the treatment that Jericho or Shark or Las Vegas has. It almost did, but way back when, the network decided to "take a chance" on a show that wasn't a hit after the first un-promoted episode.

And don't even start me about the remakes. Bionic Woman? Yea, that lasted a long three minutes. Knight Rider? Nice car, Val Kilmer seems to have a decent grasp of the dry Kelsey-Grammar-esque sarcasm and wit that the car always needed. If it goes even remotely "smart" as a show however, I expect NBC to pull it's over-hyped plug forthwith. Right after it's built a following, I'm sure.

I'm very glad that I'm in the film industry as a sound designer, and that I have over 2000 DVDs in my collection. Looks like there won't be much filling up my Tivo except the History Channel or Discovery.