Friday Night TV Murder Pile: The CSI franchise just died again


by The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club— For the second time in the franchise’s ridiculously successful 23-year history, CBS’s CSI franchise is facing the prospect of a world in which there are no active CSI shows on the air. The network announced tonight that it’s killing off revival series CSI: Vegas after three seasons on the air, tossing it onto our old pal, the Friday Night TV Murder Pile. At least it won’t be lonely: Besides being joined by the well-analyzed corpses of its generally more successful siblings, Vegas arrives on...

The A.V. Club—Friday Night TV Murder Pile: Aloha, NCIS: Hawai'i. When we recently started codifying the concept of the Friday Night TV Murder Pile—the Hollywood trend that sees TV networks dump the news that they’re canceling modestly performing “bubble” shows in the last hours before the weekend, presumably to cut down on the shouting—it was mostly as a joke. “Certainly,” we thought at the time, “The networks won’t continue to kill series at this particular time of week, every week, so consistently that we’d have to keep doing this.” Anyway, CBS killed...

Pro Wrestling Dot Net—WWE Friday Night Smackdown Poll: Grade the WWE Draft night one edition. WWE Friday Night Smackdown Poll:

Pro Wrestling Dot Net—WWE Friday Night Smackdown preview: The WWE Draft begins on Friday's Fox show. By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor