CBS being CBS and not especially fussed by much, they haven’t quite got round to putting together trailers for all their new shows for this week’s upfronts presentations (unlike Fox, ABC, TNT and TBS. Admittedly, NBC was also a bit slack, but that’s more likely to be incompetence). So we’re going to have to wait to have a gander at Battle Creek, CSI: Cyber and The Odd Couple.
CBS also being CBS means that a lot of the new shows are procedurals or spin-offs from existing procedurals or are generic multi-camera comedies. But as a sign of CBS’s drop from perennial number one to number two in the ratings this year, they’ve actually put a little effort in and have some actual diversity in their new shows, too.
So after the jump, you can see Halle Berry do a Sandra Bullock and go into space in Extant, Tea Leoni do a Hillary Clinton and be the Secretary of State in Madam Secretary, Scott Bakula continue to be paid in yet another NCIS, NCIS: New Orleans, Kurtzman and Orci production Scorpion about some super-geniuses who save the world for Robert Patrick, ’scariest TV show ever’ Stalker from Kevin Williamson (The Following), and inevitable CBS insult-athon multi-camera comedy The McCarthys starring yet another member of the Ritter family.
Good and the bad, guys. Good and the bad.