Crimetime After Primetime
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Crimetime After Primetime is the umbrella title for a group of late-night crime-investigation shows that debuted at various times on CBS during 1991 and 1992, running through late summer of 1993. The series was dropped when CBS began broadcasting Late Show with David Letterman. The line-up was originally supposed to debut in January 1991, but was delayed several weeks due to the beginning of the Gulf War.
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[edit] History
Prior to this format CBS aired CBS Late Night until it was replaced by The Pat Sajak Show. A year later, CBS Late Night returned after The Pat Sajak Show was shortened from 90 minutes to 60 minutes in February 1990. CBS continued to show reruns of their primetime shows like Wiseguy and other networks' shows, including Fox's Jump Street and NBC's Stingray. There was also original programming on the line up. Overtime... with Pat O'Brien, and The Midnight Hour were among them. In March 1991, CBS retooled their late night by airing original series under a new umbrella title of Crimetime After Primetime.
[edit] General lineup
The shows in the series followed this general lineup:
- late Monday nights/early Tuesday mornings: Tropical Heat a.k.a. Sweating Bullets[1]
- late Tuesday nights/early Wednesday mornings: Forever Knight and The Exile[2]
- late Wednesday nights/early Thursday mornings: Scene of the Crime replaced by Dangerous Curves[3]
- late Thursday nights/early Friday mornings: Fly by Night [4] replaced by Silk Stalkings (continued with original shows on USA Network after CBS cancelled)
- late Friday nights/early Saturday mornings: Dark Justice (TNT had reruns)
- and Urban Angel (starring Louis Ferreira of Stargate Universe) was in the line up as well
