Year: 2012

Following on from NBC, Fox and ABC, today we get to have a look at the shiny new shows that CBS has lined up for us for the 2012 to 2013 season.

CBS is, of course, the 10-tonne gorilla that dominates the US TV ratings. So powerful is it that it can cancel CSI: Miami because “it doesn’t fit” and comedies like Rob, which gets 12m viewers, because it thinks it “can do better” with the same time slot – if NBC had a show that got 12m viewers, it would be its top-rated scripted show and pride of place in its line-up and left to do whatever it likes.

With so many top-rated shows on its hands, CBS can pick and choose and doesn’t need to add too many new ones. So after the break, we’ll have a look (with trailers, for once) at the few new shows CBS has to offer, as well as its schedule for the Fall:

• Elementary – a modern day version of Sherlock Holmes starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, as well as Prime Suspect‘s Aidan Quinn. Hmmm…
• Vegas – a rodeo cowboy becomes a Las Vegas sheriff in the 1960s. Stars Dennis Quaid, No Ordinary Family‘s Michael Chiklis, Life on Mars/Terra Nova‘s Jason O’Mara and The Matrix‘s Carrie-Anne Moss
• Made In Jersey – a working class woman (Janet Montgomery) compete with colleagues at a Manhattan law firm. Stars Kyle MacLachlan, Stephanie March and Erin Cummings among others.
• Partners – two friends, one straight (David Krumholtz from Numb3rs/The Playboy Club), one gay (Michael Urie). Straight guy proposes to his girlfriend (Sophie Bush) and problems ensue. Brandon Routh (Superman Returns/Chuck) also stars.

There’s also cop show Golden Boy and comedy Friend Me lined up as mid-season replacements, but there aren’t any trailers for those yet. Sorry.

Any look good to you?

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