CBS 2012 Midseason Schedule Changes: Network Moves 'A Gifted Man'

CBS is shaking up its midseason schedule, moving freshman drama "A Gifted Man" to 9 p.m. on Fridays to make room for the return of "Undercover Boss."

The reality show will premiere its first three episodes in the Sundays at 8 p.m. slot until moving to Fridays at 8 p.m. on Feb. 17. CSI: NY will not return to the network's primetime Friday night schedule until March 30, after a six-week hiatus.

Meanwhile, Season 20 of "The Amazing Race" will premiere Sun., Feb. 19 at 9 p.m. ET.

See the full list of midseason changes below.

THURSDAYS (Effective Jan. 12)
8-8:30 p.m. "The Big Bang Theory"
9:30-9 p.m. "¡Rob!"
9-10 p.m. "Person of Interest"
10-11 p.m. "The Mentalist"

SUNDAYS (Effective Jan. 15)
7-8 p.m. "60 Minutes"
8-9 p.m. "Undercover Boss"
9-10 p.m. "The Good Wife"
10-11 p.m. "CSI Miami"

FRIDAYS (Effective Feb. 17)
8-9 p.m. "Undercover Boss"
9-10 p.m. "A Gifted Man"
10-11 p.m. "Blue Bloods"

FRIDAYS (Effective March 30)
8-9 p.m. "Undercover Boss"
9-10 p.m. "CSI: NY"
10-11 p.m. "Blue Bloods"

Comments

[noaxe397]

10:43 AM on 12/18/2011

What happened to "Rules of Engagement"?

[HC says]

09:22 PM on 12/16/2011

I don't care what CBS does with their schedule. Just keep The Amazing Race coming week after week. Oh yeah, and get Bob Barker back on The Price Is Right.

[blacksmithn]

12:58 PM on 12/16/2011

Undercover Boss is the most loathsome, cluelessly offensive show ever-- Pt. 1: Let's spy on my minions because I'm too dopey or too self-absorbed to understand their little lives and seemingly pointless concerns. Pt. 2: Wow, you little people ARE human after all! Here's some trinkets to make you feel better and to help me feel less guilty about continuing to oppress you so that my stockholders will continue to grant me giant year-end bonuses.

[HC says]

09:25 PM on 12/16/2011

How are the workers oppressed? No one is forcing them to work for a particular employer. If you dont' like your job, go get another one or start your own company. Did it ever occur to you that some of the dolts on that show (the oppressed) aren't worth the minimum wage they make?

[blacksmithn]

11:20 AM on 12/17/2011

Spoken like someone who has lived in a bubble for the last three years. You do realize that there are 4 job applicants for every single job opening, right? And that most folks don't have and can't come up with the wherewithal these days to start a company, let alone exist while waiting for the new company to begin to make a profit, right?

Yeah, I thought not. But these folks are "dolts" to you for staying in a job in uncertain times. Brilliant reasoning and so fitting for the season.

[Spike5]

01:10 AM on 12/17/2011

It's the 'trinkets' that annoy me. The boss finds out what a great job his employees are doing and they get...a week's vacation or a heater for the frigid security booth or generally something trivial. How about something that makes them think they hit the jackpot? This is huge publicity for the companies involved, and the show couldn't happen without the employees agreeing to have their work shown on the air. It never seems to me like they are getting appropriately compensated.

[blacksmithn]

11:27 AM on 12/17/2011

Yeah, they're really not. And the boss gets to feel all transformed, like Scrooge on Christmas morning, for a pittance-- Dude, you were SPYING on your employees because you didn't have the first clue what they do, how they live, or how their job effects their lives. Giving them a pair of warm gloves (or some coal for their furnace, Ebenezer) is hardly the life change you want to make it out to be just to assuage your conscience.

[Dbos]

12:11 PM on 12/16/2011

Reality TV: scamming the TV audience; they don't have to pay all the bubbas, just the winner, way less cost.

[warrior3954]

12:11 PM on 12/16/2011

First they should get rid of The Gifted Man If we wanted to see somebody talking to ghosts you should have left Ghost Whisper on it was so much better then this show!!! Leave Rules of Engagement on Don't even show Rob since it will probably be on only two shows, And forget about Undercover Boss, Bring back our CSI!!! Time to look to other Channels for Friday nightr shows CBS Your goin down in ratings doing show changes like this!!!!!

[AnathTheGoddess]

05:00 PM on 12/17/2011

Actually, that is a matter of opinion. I like "The Gifted Man" and didn't care for "Ghost Whisperer." Though they both have a "ghost theme," their premises are totally different. "The Gifted Man" is about a gifted doctor whose late wife is helping him become a better man, thus an even better doctor. There are only three other fictional shows on network TV I watch: "The Mentalist," "Ringer," and "Bones." "Two Broke Girls" isn't bad, and I watch it when I remember.

[hlnpayne]

11:44 AM on 12/16/2011

why are they bringing back undercover boss ..i am tired of these so called reality tv they are boring.. where is rules of engagement..they aready had a good lineup now they are screwing it up

[pjkls]

12:45 PM on 12/16/2011

Rules has been back for a while now. It was just on Thursday night at 8:30 Mnt.

[kcinci]

08:23 AM on 12/16/2011

HuffPo,The show is call "A Gifted Man" not "A Gifted Boss".

[Kyle Perry]

08:10 AM on 12/16/2011

Undercover Boss, the propaganda show for CEOs. Ever notice how all of the CEOs on this show are married with kids and rabidly religious?

[Dbos]

12:14 PM on 12/16/2011

Help some but not all your workers;would you like some fries with the bs.

[Bret Carbone]

06:06 AM on 12/16/2011

More of these moronic reality shows instead of making real television.

[HC says]

09:23 PM on 12/16/2011

Oh yes - society is advanced with each installment of "How I Met Your Mother" and "The Big Bang Theory".

[Tripp Young]

09:27 PM on 12/15/2011

OK CBS... quit screwing with Friday nights. You first big mistake was cancelling Ghost Whisperer when it was still earning great ratings. We don't want any more reality shows. Undercover Boss is a good show to run as an occasional special... but stick to the dramas. Please don't let CSI NY fall by the wayside while you make more dumb moves.

[jabact99]

10:46 PM on 12/15/2011

I totally agree with you Tripp! Quit messing with the line up it is fine just the way it is!!

[gistbyteme]

09:17 PM on 12/15/2011

A Gifted Boss???? You people can't even report the correct names of the shows. . give us back the old format . . you people suck!!!!!

[unitron]

08:17 PM on 12/15/2011

I don't know what

9:30-9 p.m. "¡Rob!"

is going to be, but any show that starts half an hour after it ends intrigues me. Can't wait to see how they make that work.

[Rigs-in-Gear]

04:55 AM on 12/16/2011

I thought it was going to be a twenty three and a half hour marathon of some show with foreign punctuation.

[Kim0330]

11:06 AM on 12/16/2011

LOL!