CBS sets 'NYC 22' for Sundays in April

Terry Kinney, Adam Goldberg and Leelee Sobieski lead the procedural

By Daniel Fienberg Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012 2:16 PM

"NYC 22"

Credit: CBS

CBS has set a launch date for its late-premiering drama "NYC 22" and, in one of the year's true scheduling miracles, the police procedural has avoided a Friday night slot.

Avoiding following in the footsteps of "Miami Medical" and "Chaos," "NYC 22" will air on Sunday nights this spring, starting on April 15, airing in the 10 p.m. slot that will be vacated by "CSI: Miami" when it completes its full run of original episodes for the season.

CBS opted not to panel "NYC 22" at the Television Critics Association press tour last month, leading to questions about the network's confidence in the drama.

"Part of the reason why it’s later in the season is we had a very successful fall," CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler told reporters. "And as audience is continuing to grow for the shows that we launched this fall, we want to make sure that we fortify the audience, make sure we continue to support the new shows. And then we’ll give it its own sort of very special launch later in the spring and using basketball as a platform to launch it."

Think "Rookie Blue" only less Canadian, "NYC 22" focuses on a group of six NYPD detectives working the streets of upper Manhattan.

Created by novelist Richard Price ("Clockers," "The Wire"), "NYC 22" stars Terry Kinney, Adam Goldberg, Leelee Sobieski, Stark Sands, Judy Marte, Harold "House" Moore, Tom Reed and Felix Solis.

Price is also executive producing "NYC 22" along with Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Ken Sanzel and James Mangold, who directed the pilot.

Daniel Fienberg
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A long-time member of the TCA Board and a longer-time blogger of "American Idol," Dan Fienberg writes about TV, except for when he writes about movies or sometimes writes about the Red Sox. But never music. He would sound stupid talking about music.

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War Chief Shake Zula

This isn't a miracle, Fienberg! Sundays @ 10 is the worst non-Friday timeslot CBS could possibly hope to offer. It'll have a crap lead-in after Good Wife (unless CBS swerves and keeps Undercover Boss on Sundays), and there's still golf out there to bump it from the regular timeline. Not to mention the fact that Sundays @ 10 are splinted in literally 400 different directions due to cable.
February 1, 2012 at 3:30PM EST Reply to Comment
- War Chief Shake Zula (meant to say splintered. This software needs editing tools)
  February 1, 2012 at 3:31PM EST
- *Still* beats Friday nights, if only because of the recent precedent of short-lived spring replacements. Would one be more confident about its fate if CBS were airing it on Tuesday nights after "NCIS: LA" and ending "Unforgettable" early? Sure. But for some reason, CBS doesn't seem to want to play that way. To *me* CBS would be smarter shelving "Unforgettable" and giving "NYC 22" a real shot on Tuesday. Or shelving "Hawaii Five-0" and letting it have a real shot on Monday. But I don't make the rules and I haven't seen "NYC 22," so I don't know if it's deserving of a real shot...
  
  -Daniel
  February 1, 2012 at 3:50PM EST
- War Chief Shake Zula It's not just you. I've bounced that theory around in the past, given that Unforgettable ran up against the same wall of cable competition that also stopped Good Wife from breaking thru in the timeslot. Of course, who's to say NYC22 wouldn't succumb to the same fate?
  
  It would still be better if CBS pulls the UCB swerve. I'd be less cynical of that, not to mention it would probably go a long way toward at least patching their sinking ship of a Sunday line-up...
  February 1, 2012 at 4:01PM EST
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