99 Words About … The future of CBS’ ‘Vegas’
“Vegas” moves to Fridays on April 5.
It stars 58-year-old Dennis Quaid. It’s set in 1961. And it’s on CBS.
For younger viewers, it might as well be “Murder, She Wrote.”
But when the network moves “Vegas” to Fridays (9 p.m. April 5, KLAS-TV, Channel 8), it will be to save it, not bury it.
If “Vegas” returns for a second season, it’ll be on Fridays, where its ancient demographic isn’t as harmful.
Sure, “Vegas” was better suited for a gritty cable channel. But it’s still the season’s highest-rated new series, averaging 13 million viewers.
NBC executives would sell what’s left of their souls for numbers like that.
— CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE
