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CBS keeps 'The Amazing Race 5' on summer schedule, changes fall airtime of 'Race 6'


By Wade Paulsen, 06/03/2004

CBS has confirmed that it will air The Amazing Race 5 during the summer of 2004, beginning on July 6, as it originally planned. Thus, CBS chairman Les Moonves' trial balloon regarding the possibility of delaying TAR5 for the CBS fall schedule, which he trotted out during the network's "upfront" presentations in May, has been punctured.

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Instead, CBS is hoping to use the summer broadcast to build momentum for the fall return of The Amazing Race 6 to the regular-season primetime schedule. To help that effort, CBS has changed the planned broadcast time of TAR6 from Saturday at 9 PM ET/PT to Saturday at 8 PM ET/PT. Whether the earlier hour will help The Amazing Race in the ratings, considering that it is airing on one of the two weekend "death nights" for reality TV, remains an open question.

According to TV Week, CBS's Saturday night lineup in the fall will now be:

- 8 PM (7 CT): The Amazing Race 6
- 9 PM (8 CT): Crime Time Saturday (repeat episodes of TAR producer Jerry Bruckheimer's primetime dramas)
- 10 PM (9 CT): 48 Hours Mystery (which was originally slated for 8 PM)

CBS says the moves were intended to improve "program flow." We tend to believe they were made to give TAR6 a chance to survive, without the sure-to-be dismal lead-in audience from 48 Hours Mystery, but we'll have to wait and see if they work.



 
 






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