{"id":12943,"date":"2010-12-22T00:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2010-12-22T01:04:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T09:04:24","slug":"cbs-shifts-blue-bloods-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/12\/cbs-shifts-blue-bloods-defenders\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Shifts &#8216;Blue Bloods&#8217;, &#8216;Defenders&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS makes more scheduling changes, giving <I>CSI: New York<\/i> two new lead-ins and trying <I>Blue Bloods<\/i> on a different night.<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/12\/cbs-temporarily-shifts-miami-to-800pm-etpt\/\">reported<\/a> that CBS is giving <I>CSI: Miami<\/i> a temporary timeslot change next month. Deadline.com now reports that the network is shifting more shows around as the midseason schedule gets underway. <i>The Defenders<\/i> currently airs Wednesday at 10:00pm ET\/PT, and <i>Blue Bloods<\/i> airs after <I>CSI: New York<\/i> at 10:00pm ET\/PT on Friday. Here are details about some of the CBS midseason scheduling changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <I>Blue Bloods<\/i> will air on Wednesday at 10:00pm ET\/PT from January 19-February 9, 2011. (During this time, the Friday 10:00pm ET\/PT timeslot will be filled with crime show repeats.) It will head back to Friday on February 11.\n<li> After <i>Blue Bloods<\/i> returns to its usual timeslot, <I>Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior<\/i> will debut on Wednesday, February 16 following <I>Criminal Minds<\/i> at 10:00pm ET\/PT.\n<li> Bounced from its usual timeslot by <I>Blue Bloods<\/i> and the <I>Criminal Minds<\/i> spinoff, freshman legal drama <i>The Defenders<\/i> will head to Friday night to serve as the lead-in for <I>CSI: New York<\/i>. The series finale of <I>Medium<\/i> will air Friday, January 21 at 8:00pm ET\/PT. <I>Defenders<\/i> will take over the vacant timeslot starting February 4. The finale of <I>Defenders&#8217;<\/i> shortened first season is tentatively scheduled to air Friday, March 11 at 8:00pm ET\/PT.\n<li> Following the season finale of <I>Defenders<\/i>, CBS will air the new midseason series <i>Chaos<\/i> on Friday at 8:00pm ET\/PT starting April 1. The comedic drama about rogue CIA agents will lead into <i>CSI: NY<\/i> and <i>Blue Bloods<\/i>.<\/ul>\n<p><P><br \/>\nHow do you feel about the scheduling changes? Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/talk.csifiles.com\/showthread.php?t=61910\">TalkCSI<\/a> to share your opinion!<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe news about <i>Blue Bloods<\/i> switching to Wednesday is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2010\/12\/cbs-gives-blue-bloods-wednesday-10-pm-trial-run-shifts-the-defenders-to-fridays\/\">Deadline.com<\/a>. For more about the CBS midseason schedule, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2010\/12\/cbs-announces-mid-season-schedule-mad-love-to-monday-and-chaos-to-friday\/#more-92343\">here<\/a>. Thanks to <b>Shane<\/b> from <a href=\"http:\/\/talk.csifiles.com\/\">TalkCSI<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS makes more scheduling changes, giving CSI: New York two new lead-ins and trying Blue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[2971],"class_list":["post-12943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-other-cbs-programming"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12953,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions\/12953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}