May 21, 2009, 02:51 PM | by Jeremy Medina
Categories:
'Medium',
Television
Medium jumping ship to CBS makes so much sense it's scary. As CBS chief Nina Tassler
suggested, the show is practically the spiritual lovechild to the Eye's own
Ghost Whisperer* and
Numb3rs. NBC offered the somewhat dubious reasoning that the network wants to go younger, and just didn't think people cared enough about
Medium. Even though, you know, it gets higher ratings than
Chuck. (Surprising, right?
Chuck fans must be just very
vocal. And also
hungry.) With
Medium switching networks, and
folks rallying for
My Name Is Earl to find a new home somewhere not run by
Ben Silverman, loyalty seems to lie with the shows, not the networks. Of course, whether fans follow the Patricia Arquette whodunit to CBS remains to be seen, but I bet it'll be just as popular, if not more so.
Confession time: The only show I watch on CBS is The Amazing Race. That's all. I've caught a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother, but have yet to fully commit. Yet, out of all the networks, CBS seems to be the most focused, offering procedurals, traditional sitcoms and reality shows for the masses. As Time magazine put it, the network's audience is "sometimes older, sometimes not, but generally more conservative in its taste." There's certainly nothing wrong with that. The network has some of the highest-rated shows on TV in The Mentalist, NCIS and CSI and its brood of stepchildren. But does liking CBS make you less cool? And, uh, boring?
PopWatchers: What is YOUR network? Given NBC's identity crisis and ABC's propensity to cancel shows in their first or second seasons, do you even hold any loyalty to one network in particular anymore? Which channel is home to most of your favorites? Sharing is caring, so speak up!
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*I'm confused. How did "Medium" end up being Ghost Whisperer's Lovechild when it came first? Seriously?