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Amy Reisenbach On CBS Switching To Long-Term Development With No Pilots This Season, Launching 2023-24 Lineup With Super Bowl & ‘NCIS’ Future
It’s late January, time when the broadcast networks typically kick off pilot season with their first pilot orders targeting the upcoming fall. Not CBS, which will not be picking pilots in the…
She touted CBS shows’ role as “creative engines” that have long lives on streaming but was also candid about the need for the industry to come together and “level set some of the costs at the starting gate” so broadcast series can run for seven seasons and beyond in the future. But once we started to look at the pieces we had in place with Matlock and Elsbeth — and, obviously this was pre-strike and in the first days of the WGA strike — when we unveiled our schedule in May, we announced Tracker is coming on after the Super Bowl because we just felt like it was the perfect show. And then, I think one of the things that has really been beneficial in the past year is the cohesiveness and transparency and communication among the different departments, with scheduling and marketing and current and myself sitting down and saying, what is the most effective, biggest way that we can make the most noise in bringing back these shows.
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