noooo - football always wins in my house, and that's a fail slot, noooo I want it to work!

i watch family guy
my housemate watches desperate housewives
great. haha

but everything i said above doesn't matter cause we live in canada
so the problem now is...will that show even air in canada?!

haha I will be watching Desperate Housewives during that time slot, so maybe if it's good enough, then I will rent it on Netflix.

If it sucks, I don't know....
I kinda have mixed feelings about this but, we'll see! ^_^

i'll prob. be watching family guy, but i'll catch this in between commercials just for him =].

that is one tough line up.. Good luck three rivers..you are going to need it

I'll pick Stewie over him (for the first half of the hour), then I'll tune in to his drama just to see how he's doing.

family guy? i think i'm gonna have to pass

Okay, well we can project based on last year, maybe.

8:20 -11 p.m. NBC Sun Night Foosball 15.3 m viewers (average, no playoffs)
9:00 p.m. ABC Desp Hwives 13.2 million viewers (average except sweeps)
9:00 p.m. FOX Family Guy 6.9 million viewers (average except sweeps)
9:30 p.m. FOX American Dad 5.6 million viewers (average except sweeps)

That totals up to 41 million, give or take maybe 3 million ppl

Last year, there were around 42-49 million viewers (as counted by Nielsen) week to week during the fall of 2008, if you JUST count NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX. So, there IS room there for Three Rivers to squeeze out a living, that was formerly taken by Cold Case, noting that these numbers mean less and less as more and more viewers use DVR or TiVo or watch online. But are Cold Case viewers going to watch Three Rivers?

Based purely on last year, even before Three Rivers airs a single episode, the drama is right there on the cancellation cusp... a tough beat..

Yeah tough beat for them especially since it'sgoing to be in the fall. And like everyone else said I just might watch it when the commercials are on, :)

Still, you gotta think, CBS programmers have done extensive testing and branding and everything else, they wouldn't have gone through the expense of creating and producing a whole new drama, just to make it fail. They are trying to give it the best possible shot at success, presumably. And with all that programming experience, CBS concluded that Three Rivers' audience will be the same audience as Cold Case, and so Three Rivers ---> Cold Case is a good fit.... hope so.

Of course, Three Rivers has a backup medical drama ready to roll if it fails... Jerry Bruckheimer's Miami Trauma, a mid-season drop-in that could get the midnight call if Three Rivers gets beaten up into a coma by Sunday Night Football / Desperate Housewives / Family Guy, and then taken off of life support by itchy fingers.

AHHHH I'm a big Family Guy/American Dad follower...I'll try my best to catch all three but I'm willing to give up an episode of Family Guy/American Dad for Daniel...even if he doesn't do well, he's too good to look at!!!

Finally, a Sunday night show I might actually watch. If only to see what a hot mess it is. Is it bad of me to hope that this show is an American BBF--as in something HORRIBLY bad for me, but something I can't look away from?

@13 Gallivanter -

I'm guessing that the sturdy lead actors should keep this from being a hot mess. The drama is about organ transplantation from the point of view of the doctors, the patients, and the donors (eek). So I'd guess that this is a pretty serious drama about issues that surround life and death, and the people that have to deal with it on a daily basis.

I hope that Daniel has the acting chops to play a guy who has to deal with issues of life and death... his role as a medical doctor specialist may be hard to pull off credibly if he is just there for eye candy.

...and his previous experience as an oncologist (cancer doc) in My Name is Kim Sam Soon.... well, doesn't really count.

ehhh....just make him McSteamy II, and I bet more will tune in. ;)

ignore that, doesn't matter

@15 hjkomo -

That's actually a really good point. Having DH on Grey's Anatomy would have been perfect. It would be a nice segueway for DH to transition from k-dramas to American dramas, and Grey's Anatomy is mostly about sex appeal anyway, and DH has no shortage of that. Then we could have DH being the first Asian American male on television kissing ... well, anyone other than a person's fist.

yeah, it's a problem...i watch family guy...and i can't afford TIVO..sorry DH, maybe they'll show re-runs..

hmmmm....Daniel Henney should be reading this and taking notes! For crying out loud!

Am I crazy? I must be the only one who prefers Tim Kang and John Cho over Daniel Henney. Tim Kang has The Mentalist, the number one new show this year and John Cho will be in Flash Forward on ABC later this year.

Wow. Thats big competition for this show. Especially Sunday night football.
Personally, I hate Football, but my step dad is always watching, and it's very popular in the US.
And the other shows are very poplular also.
This really sucks. I still hope the show succedes.
I'll still watch to support Henney.

hmmm..don't know about this one....could go both ways..

This is upsetting news. I love Desperate Housewives!
I guess I could watch one of them online.. Most likely Desperate Housewives if Three Rivers doesn't do too well.. And if it does do that I may not even watch it. But really I'd probably still watch it because of Daniel Henney.

Just watched the preview on CBS' website. Yeaaaah, probably won't be watching this. Too cheesy and dramatic for me. Also, Daniel Henney's got bad hair in this.

I'm confused: does Daniel only show up in the pilot or is he in for the whole series?

can't wait!! I will definitely be watching!
Since I don't really like any of the other shows on Sunday :]

I'll watch vicariously through you guys!

cool.

I don't watch much TV ever since my beloved Buffy/Angel got canceled so I doubt I'll tune in. I know I should move on but I've just given up on TV. The once a week format just doesn't work for me. I lose interest and forget to tune in if I don't have a continuous feed.

I occasionally watch Lost (which I hate BTW) because of my husband but overall we rarely watch TV these days. I find I have oodles of time to devote to reading everyone's comments on this blog, knit a sweater and reorganize my book and DVD library.

My friend who is a total TV queen was horrified when I said I've never watched even a millisecond of American Idol or Desperate Housewife.

From the preview on CBS it seems that Henney's role is that of a silent extra rather than a leading or supporting actor. Which sucks b0lls.

Yet another Asian male actor present but not quite. Really, I am amazed that East Asians in America are not up in arms about the consistently dehumanizing representation of East and South East Asian men. I think I am noticing this more because there appears to be the beginnings of some strong roles for South Asian men -- Aziz Ansari (married to a hottie and always hitting on women) of Parks and Recreation and Asif Mandvi (as a very sexy intellectual) of The Daily Show and whatshisname Jack's secretary in 30 Rock as well as Fareed Zakaria with his own show on CNN (?) (and of course there are Lost and Hero, but those are more Look-at-us-we-are-representing-different races, quota type of service show -- that is, they represent a lot of minorities, and Asians are one of them, so I don't take those two shows as representative of much).

Anyway, guys, don't get too excited -- I think daniel has a bit role in the show.

He looks gorgeous -- GORGEOUS -- in the microsecond he is on screen in tne almost 3 minute preview.

I still support him 100%. Fighting!

Ahhhh....what's with DH's hair??? O_o
At least, Alex O'Loughlin's looking good.

^oops, that was me. ;)

Sadly, I don't want Daniel Henney to break out in American TV. Movies are fine, but I'd rather see him in Korean dramas, cause I tend to watch more Asian dramas/movies then I tune into shows on TV. Ah well. I'll tune into the show anyway just to see what its like. I hope it'll do good.

@ ndegeocello #20

Oh no, I have to agree with you. I really like John Cho and I adore Tim Kang. Both of them are amazing actors and ooze sex appeal as well :)

can not wait to see daniel hennesy in three rivers. i absolutely loved him in x-men. he was fantastic and so handsome....

yeah, but can he act any better in English than in Korean? not holding my breath. regardless, viewing time is limited and football usually trumps.

I hope they're gonna buy Three Rivers to my country! I want to see Henney every week on my tv oO

yeup...hope his acting is improved...and thank goodness for DVR.