World Turns Replacement: Nancy Grace ?!!?

[dustintv]

Nancy Grace has a new talk show coming up for fall of 2010 being produced by CBS Productions. As it's unlikely that CBS will be turning over the timeslot back to affliates, rumor has it that CBS will simply replace As the World Turns by having Nancy Grace's new show in the slot, thus airing on most or all CBS stations.

 

[kms575]

so the new show could be called "As the Stomach Turns"

 

[DToTheJ]

She'd have a deal similar to that of her new HLN colleague Joy Behar: an hour of broadcast TV during the day, an hour of cable news at night.

 

[bostonmediaguy]

Nancy Grace has a new talk show coming up for fall of 2010 being produced by CBS Productions. As it's unlikely that CBS will be turning over the timeslot back to affliates, rumor has it that CBS will simply replace As the World Turns by having Nancy Grace's new show in the slot, thus airing on most or all CBS stations.

"Swift Justice with Nancy Grace" has already been sold to stations, including some in the Fox O&O group. While some CBS affiliate and owned stations will air the program, it will not be a network program. (http://www.cbstvd.com/press_release_detail.aspx?newsID=127).

 

[bpatrick]

Could that mean a multiple morning/afternoon feed
of whatever goes in at 2? The o&os that carry "Let's
Make A Deal" in the morning do so at 10 Eastern/9
Central and Pacific (however, there is that 9 AM Eastern
feed of "Deal" but possibly those stations could be persuaded
to move it to 10), so let's say CBS puts a game show at 2.
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Miami, Pittsburgh,
and Baltimore could carry the game show at 9 and Nancy Grace
at 2; Chicago, Los Angeles, and Sacramento could carry the game show at 1
and Nancy Grace sometime after that. Thoughts?

 

[imhomerjay]

They're not going to add Nancy Grace and game shows.

In Philly, at least, Dr. Oz occipies the 9 am slot, so while the idea of game moving there if offered by CBS makes sense, the only way it works is that Dr Oz moves to 2. Unless the ratings suddenly tank, it's likely he's not going away.

 

[bpatrick]

No one's mentioned where--in those cities where
both CBS and Fox have o&os--Nancy Grace will be.
If WTXF carries her in Philadelphia and if
CBS puts a game at 2, KYW could opt out of any morning
game-show feed and simply replace "ATWT" with the new
show; otherwise, your scenario is probably what would happen.

But then again, CBS hasn't said what's going into the 2 PM
slot nor has it said anything about multiple feeds; my hypothetical
is based on the fact that "Let's Make A Deal" is on in the morning
and Dr. Phil at 3 on many of those CBS o&os (just as "Guiding Light"
was on in the morning), so why not the same thing at 2, only with
a different game show and Nancy Grace?

OTOH, if CBS moves "Young And The Restless" to 1 and expands "Bold
And The Beautiful" to an hour at 2 (not likely, given the costs of producing
these soaps), all bets are off; the o&os are sure to take those shows together,
at least in the Eastern time zone, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas.

 

[SeanMGilbow]

No one's mentioned where--in those cities where
both CBS and Fox have o&os--Nancy Grace will be.
If WTXF carries her in Philadelphia and if
CBS puts a game at 2, KYW could opt out of any morning
game-show feed and simply replace "ATWT" with the new
show; otherwise, your scenario is probably what would happen.

But then again, CBS hasn't said what's going into the 2 PM
slot nor has it said anything about multiple feeds; my hypothetical
is based on the fact that "Let's Make A Deal" is on in the morning
and Dr. Phil at 3 on many of those CBS o&os (just as "Guiding Light"
was on in the morning), so why not the same thing at 2, only with
a different game show and Nancy Grace?

OTOH, if CBS moves "Young And The Restless" to 1 and expands "Bold
And The Beautiful" to an hour at 2 (not likely, given the costs of producing
these soaps), all bets are off; the o&os are sure to take those shows together,
at least in the Eastern time zone, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas.

I'd go with the latter scenario. This would allow the CBS affiliates to compete with the NBC and ABC affiliates' hour-long midday news blocks.

The CBS affiliate here in Columbus, Ohio, WBNS 10TV, would be overjoyed at that scenario. It was #1 in all time slots during the November sweeps. It also airs "Let's Make a Deal" at 10 and "Dr. Phil" at 3.

 

[recto101]

I remember her on Tru TV years ago.

 

[imhomerjay]

No one's mentioned where--in those cities where
both CBS and Fox have o&os--Nancy Grace will be.
If WTXF carries her in Philadelphia and if
CBS puts a game at 2, KYW could opt out of any morning
game-show feed and simply replace "ATWT" with the new
show; otherwise, your scenario is probably what would happen.

If the Fox O&Os bought the show for all their stations, then there's no question. Not all CBS-syndicated fare goes on CBS stations, obviously...any more than all Disney syndicated fare only airs on ABC stations. If the CBS O&Os didn't buy "Nancy," it's not really a conflict to be resolved.

 

[e-dawg]

Is it Nancy Grace or Nancy GRAVE ;D. Like she needs to take some prozac before she starts her program and bullying her guests.