It seems NBC’s strategy for filling the holes in their programming is to take programming from other networks. According to Televisionary:

New episodes of Psych and Monk will air on USA in January and will then be broadcast on Sunday nights on NBC starting in March. (No timeslot for either has yet been announced.)

While you can’t deny that the two shows are popular, it seems obvious that NBC is just trying to cover gaps in their schedule. They have a handful of scripted shows in the can, but those won’t last them very long once they start airing them.

Is there really much an audience for shows coming from cable to network tv? Maybe back in the day when cable wasn’t so prevalent I could understand this move but as it is, I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t watch these shows on USA if I wanted to watch them.

Other than covering up their programming problems that are related to the strike, I don’t see how this move could really benefit NBC. Will it really bring in any fresh viewers? Can it actually benefit their ratings in a significant way?

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