Breaking: CBS Schedule Includes "The Big Bang Theory's" Temporary Return to Monday

With Thursday Night Football taking over CBS' schedule for the first several weeks of the new fall 2014 season, "The Big Bang Theory" is making a temporary visit to its old stomping grounds: Monday night. The megahit will help CBS relaunch Mondays, where it saw some declines last season -- and returns without reliable hit "How I Met Your Mother."

"The Big Bang Theory" will stay on Mondays until mid-October while Thursday is occupied. It will then return to Thursdays on Oct. 30 and help CBS resume its four-comedy block there. That will make CBS the only network with comedies at 8 p.m. on Thursday, now that NBC has turned that hour over to "The Biggest Loser."

Also: "The Amazing Race" is on the move to Fridays; "NCIS: Los Angeles" switches to Monday (where CBS will air only two comedies, dropping its long-running 4-comedy block) and "CSI" shifts to Sundays -- where it will share a timeslot with new spinoff "CSI: Cyber."

Here's CBS' fall schedule:

MONDAY:
8- The Big Bang Theory / 2 Broke Girls (post football)
8:30- Mom
9- Scorpion (new)
10- NCIS: Los Angeles

TUESDAY:
8- NCIS
9- NCIS: New Orleans
10-Person of Interest

WEDNESDAY:
8- Survivor
9-Criminal Minds
10-Stalker (new)


THURSDAY
8- Thursday Night Football

THURSDAY (post-Football)
8- The Big Bang Theory
8:30-The Millers
9- Two and a Half Men
9:30-The McCarthys (new)
10- Elementary

FRIDAY
8-The Amazing Race
9-Hawaii Five-0
10-Blue Bloods

SATURDAY
8-Crimetime Saturday
10- 48 Hours

SUNDAY 7- 60 Minutes
8- Madame Secretary (new)
9- The Good Wife
10- CSI / CSI:Cyber (midseason)

Pics From TV Guide Magazine's Showrunner Panel at Wondercon

TV Guide Magazine was in force at Wondercon this Saturday in Anaheim, and I got to moderate one of the best panels of the convention (if I do say so myself!). Our TV Guide Magazine TV Showrunner Panel, which we organized in honor of the magazine's 60th anniversary, boasted some of TV's heaviest hitters: Greg Plageman (Person of Interest), Jeff Davis (Teen Wolf), Remi Aubuchon (Falling Skies), Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead), Steven Molaro (The Big Bang Theory) and Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries). In a wide-ranging chat, we talked about everything from how and when to kill off major characters, to when to bring romantic interests together and how to walk the tightrope of network content standards. We also chatted about the showrunners' TV influences ("Hill Street Blues" was a popular one), and they all also gave us a few nuggets of storyline scoop.

My colleague Rob Moynihan summed up the panel here. And here are a few more pics from the panel, snapped by TV Guide Magazine's west coast photo editor, Geraldine Agoncillo.

"The Big Bang Theory" Goes To The Roller Rink

"The Big Bang Theory" exec producer Bill Prady sent out this Tweet pic this morning, with the challenge: "Yep, it's the #bigbangtheory crew out on location. Where are we?"

Prady was giddy -- it's rare, after all, for a four-camera comedy (which are pretty rare themselves these days) to go out on location. "We brought big movie trucks to the #bigbangtheory location! Very exciting for us 4-camera types," he later Tweeted.

Just look at that wood flooring and the markings on it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming that "The Big Bang Theory" is shooting at Glendale's famed Moonlight Rollerway!