DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
September 11, 2014  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

CBS, 8:25 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: So, so much of CBS’s fortunes, literally and figuratively, are riding on the success of this brand-new Thursday night football franchise. CBS, until January, even is shifting its top-rated Big Bang Theory back to Mondays to make room – room for a new NFL showcase CBS hopes will rival NBC’s most-watched Sunday Night Football, room for hours and hours of premium-priced Thursday night ads keyed to weekend moviegoing, room for a ready-made platform to launch CBS’s new fall season shows, and so on. This opening game for CBS is between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens – normally a worthwhile ratings draw on its own merits. But with the Ravens and the NFL busily embroiled in the Ray Rice domestic violence case, that’s got to be addressed as well. And it was, on the new CBS-dominated Inside the NFL series on Showtime two days ago, if that’s any indication of what’s to come tonight.

 
 
 
 
 
Leave a Comment: (No HTML, 1000 chars max)
 
 Name (required)
 
 Email (required) (will not be published)
 
NWMER
Type in the verification word shown on the image.
 
 
 Page: 1 of 1  | Go to page: 
1 Comments
 
 
John
Wasn't the premiere last week, with the Seahawks/Packers game?
Sep 11, 2014   |  Reply
 
 
 
 Page: 1 of 1  | Go to page: