Blink and They’re gone

Sheesh, the new TV season isn’t even a month old and already the Big American networks are dumping shows like unwanted baggage on the Vancouver-Rupert Jazz flights.

CBS has already deep sixed Smith that now former Tuesday night drama that featured Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen, featuring High Stakes Thieves doing whatever it is that High Stakes thieves will do. Smith apparently couldn't steal enough ratings from the likes of Law and Order SVU and Boston Legal, which took the show to the ratings woodshed.

Filling in for Smith will be re runs of CSI and Criminal Minds, which will fill the gap until the Programming minds at CBS get a handle on the replacement angle. While they may take their time with that, the folks in promotion were quick off the mark, Smith has been purged from the CBS website, maybe another case for Without a Trace perhaps?

NBC has also started one of their shows along the dusty road of television cancellation, banishing Kidnapped off to Saturday nights, a night which has become what is described as a television purgatory, reruns and movies holding down the fort on the night where it seems TV viewing in the US is at its lowest. Kidnapped now walks down that street that is best known as the place where TV shows go to die.

And the much anticipated debut of the Knights of Prosperity has been delayed until the New Year. The comedy about a band of slackers in New York City who rob from the rich, was to debut next week with a guest appearance from Mick Jagger who was to suffer at the hands of the motley crew of thieves. ABC says they are delaying the debut so as to give it a better promotional push away from the frenetic push of premiere weeks.

In its place ABC will trot out another episode of Dancing with the Stars, which is rather appropriated while they dance around the issue of what to do with their new show.

The network changes all fall into place nicely for the folks at Brilliant But Cancelled, a contest that asks it's viewers to pick those shows they expect to bite the dust this year and suggest others that should follow suit.

Whoever, holds the lucky ticket with Smith on it is a winner!