CBS Swaps 'Threshold,' 'Home'

[Sean Mota]

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(Monday, November 07 09:43 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Annoyed, perhaps, that Friday was its only Jerry Bruckheimer-free night of the week, CBS is swapping freshman dramas "Threshold" and "Close to Home" for a November sweeps test run.
Starting this Friday (Nov. 11), "Close to Home" will move into the 9 p.m. slot after "Ghost Whisperer." The trial will run for two weeks. "Threshold" won't take over at 10 p.m. on Tuesdays until Nov. 22 (a two-hour "Amazing Race" is set for 11/8 and the CMAs are in place on 11/15), but will remain there the following week.

If these alternative time slots prove successful, CBS could make the moves permanent.


Neither "Threshold" nor "Close to Home" has been a failure for CBS, but neither drama has achieved quite the level of viewership the network had hoped for.
Expectations were that "Threshold," with its alien invasion themes, would play will with Jennifer Love Hewitt communicating with the dead. While "Ghost Whisperer" has been a solid hit with nearly 11 million viewers per week, "Threshold" has struggled to retain that audience, averaging just 7.8 million viewers.

 

[Sean Mota]

I have been watching 'Close to Home' since the beginning but I am about to drop the show. It is basically a show of the same kind as others and brings little to the table. The Prosecutor 'Anabel' is an 'all know' lawyer who knows it all. Her attitude shown on each episode is arrogant and kind of tells or hints that she is going to win every trial. This makes little sense since a good actor is not supposed to hint you on what's coming. On the episode of two weeks ago, regarding a woman who was being trialed because she stabbed her husband on the back because "God told her so", I cut the episode with the last 10 minutes because 'Anabel' just knows everything that it is going to happen. I hate shows where there is no mystery of how people or cases are going to turn out and hate the all know characters. I'll give it one more try but I am about to drop it off my list.

 

[dfergie]

I watched first one...(Close to home) then have boycotted ever since... Amy still had more to offer IMHO...