CBS has confirmed that it will air The Amazing Race 5 during the summer of 2004, beginning on July 6, as it originally planned. Thus, CBS chairman Les Moonves' trial balloon regarding the possibility of delaying TAR5 for the CBS fall schedule, which he trotted out during the network's "upfront" presentations in May, has been punctured.
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According to TV Week, CBS's Saturday night lineup in the fall will now be:
- 8 PM (7 CT): The Amazing Race 6
- 9 PM (8 CT): Crime Time Saturday (repeat episodes of TAR producer Jerry Bruckheimer's primetime dramas)
- 10 PM (9 CT): 48 Hours Mystery (which was originally slated for 8 PM)
CBS says the moves were intended to improve "program flow." We tend to believe they were made to give TAR6 a chance to survive, without the sure-to-be dismal lead-in audience from 48 Hours Mystery, but we'll have to wait and see if they work.
