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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1467734" data-attributes="member: 158">That's odd - My wife and I've watched CSI since episode I when I debuted, and our CBS affiliate launched it at 10:00-11:00pm Thursday nights. They moved it to the 9:00pm slot during the first season, but I never remeber seeing it at Fridays unless it was (in the past year) a special rerun. Thursday is a prime slot, no doubt, but mostly the same crowd watching &quot;Wonderfalls&quot; from what I've seen locally is also watching &quot;CSI&quot;, so in my perspective it WAS the death slot. I watched CSI last thurs. with my wife, and taped the last WF to watch later. At this point, any show running against CSI is in a &quot;death slot,&quot; just like 8pm is with &quot;Friends.&quot;When Friends leaves this year, NBC will have lost that stranglehold on thursdays, because frankly Will &amp; Grace is funny, but not strong enough to hold that solid core of viewers like Friends did.Strangely, both Friends and E.R. were shows like Sienfeld that took a season to build a following. Anyone in Network-executive-land notice that some of the biggest power-hitter shows leaving the air WERE NOT strong first-performers? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Four episodes, not even during Sweeps, are enough to give ANYONE an idea of how a show is going to do long-term!Ah, well. Time to go watch my reruns of &quot;Myth-busters&quot; and wait for the next season of &quot;Monk&quot; - and those last ep's of Angel, darn it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 1467734, member: 158"] That's odd - My wife and I've watched CSI since episode I when I debuted, and our CBS affiliate launched it at 10:00-11:00pm Thursday nights. They moved it to the 9:00pm slot during the first season, but I never remeber seeing it at Fridays unless it was (in the past year) a special rerun. Thursday is a prime slot, no doubt, but mostly the same crowd watching "Wonderfalls" from what I've seen locally is also watching "CSI", so in my perspective it WAS the death slot. I watched CSI last thurs. with my wife, and taped the last WF to watch later. At this point, any show running against CSI is in a "death slot," just like 8pm is with "Friends." When Friends leaves this year, NBC will have lost that stranglehold on thursdays, because frankly Will & Grace is funny, but not strong enough to hold that solid core of viewers like Friends did. Strangely, both Friends and E.R. were shows like Sienfeld that took a season to build a following. Anyone in Network-executive-land notice that some of the biggest power-hitter shows leaving the air WERE NOT strong first-performers? :eek: Four episodes, not even during Sweeps, are enough to give ANYONE an idea of how a show is going to do long-term! Ah, well. Time to go watch my reruns of "Myth-busters" and wait for the next season of "Monk" - and those last ep's of Angel, darn it. [/QUOTE]

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