This is just a personal observation, but I can't really help but share.  CBS' Sunday night drama, The Unit, is performing reasonably well on its time slot.  In theory it's supposed to air at 10pm, but thanks to coverage of NFL games, things have moved around quite often.  Two weeks ago, the games ended 20 minutes after it was supposed to, and ratings results for the show aren't exactly definitive—ratings tables show a merged entry for The Unit and Cold Case, which preceded it.

Last week, things were a little more different.  Football ran for an extra thirty minutes, and CBS' schedule got incredibly bumped off.  60 Minutes began at 7:30pm rather than 7pm, and viewers of The Amazing Race had to watch a little bit of current affairs before seeing teams get lost in some foreign country.  But ratings were good for the network, with them getting a really big lead over the other networks.  Point that towards the Barack Obama interview and the football that preceded it.

The Unit got 9.80 million viewers last week, going up against a half of Brothers & Sisters (with 10.07 million watching), and with that, I wonder how that accurately measures the number of people actually watching the show.  You can't really make a good comparison when the schedule's gone upside down.  At least, however, the ratings are respectable enough—you don't have to wonder why the show runs for four seasons already.  At least the network is getting the message.

Okay. Rant over—now for tonight's episode.  “Shadow Riders” is the episode's name, and Jonas Blane (Dennis Haysbert) and his team have to go to enemy territory, in order to being a young bride to her groom—and, as a result, to prevent fighting between two Afghan tribes held together by an uneasy truce.  That airs tonight on CBS from 10pm—at least supposedly, unless the football gets in the way again.


-Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: CBS, TV By The Numbers
(Image courtesy of CBS)