CBS to Air NCIS Reruns After Canceling LOTERÍA LOCA
By Movieguide® Contributor
After only five episodes, match-three gameshow LOTERÍA LOCA has been canceled, being replaced by reruns of NCIS.
Opening to an audience of 1.75 million viewers, the show has dropped to just over one million by its fifth episode as audiences lost interest in the match-three lotería system. The show ranks as CBS’s least-watched series this fall.
“Inspired by a traditional Latin bingo game, LOTERÍA LOCA sees two contestants going head-to-head and taking turns to pick cards to get three in a row, which achieves ‘Lotería,” TV Insider reported.
The show was hosted by JANE THE VIRGIN star Jamie Camil along with Sheila E. as a co-host and band leader. Having already filmed an entire season, including a holiday special, it is unclear what will happen to the unaired content. The failure was likely due to its Monday night run time as it struggled to compete against Monday Night Football.
In its place, CBS will air NCIS reruns as the network prepares for the premiere of NCIS: SYDNEY on Nov. 14.
Movieguide® reported on NCIS: SYDNEY:
With TV show production at a standstill due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, CBS is swapping an American favorite for Australia’s NCIS: SYDNEY.
“CBS had previously announced a Monday night schedule for fall that included NCIS repeat at 9 p.m. ET, followed by an unspecified ‘Paramount+ Original’ at 10 p.m., which has now been confirmed to be NCIS: SYDNEY,” Variety reported.
See CBS’ revised lineup below:
Monday, Nov. 6 and Monday, Nov. 13
8:00-9:00 p.m., ET/PT: NCIS (encore episodes)
9:00-10:00 p.m., ET/PT: NCIS (encore episodes)
10:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT: NCIS (encore episodes)
Monday, Nov. 20
8:00-9:00 p.m., ET/PT: NCIS (encore episodes)
9:00-10:00 p.m., ET/PT: LET’S MAKE A DEAL PRIMETIME
10:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT: NCIS (encore episodes)
Monday, Nov. 27
8:00-9:00 p.m., ET/PT: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSE REINDEER (new day and time)
9:00-10:00 p.m., ET/PT: LET’S MAKE A DEAL PRIMETIME
10:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT: NCIS (encore episodes)
Movieguide® previously reported on NCIS: SYDNEY:
NCIS: SYDNEY’s showrunner is promising plenty of easter eggs for franchise fans in the upcoming episodes.
“The show is an entirely Australian show,” Morgan O’Neill, head of NCIS: SYDNEY, told TV Line. “But when you work on a show that’s as big as NCIS, which is is 200 territories, in 60 different languages, with trillions of hours of this show watched, the great relief from a showrunner’s point of view is that I don’t really have to go out and find ‘stars.’ The show is already the star; I just get to cast the greatest actors on the planet! So we were able to cast really wide, really broadly, to find the best actors to slide into these pretty unique roles.”
O’Neill explained that the show will still connect to NCIS’ naval roots despite being set in Australia.
“It’s effectively the first ‘blended family’ where NCIS has to form a team with the Australian Federal Police and operate in conjunction with them,” he said. “It’s Australians and Americans working not always in concert, but certainly together, and working through cultural differences, working through the clashes that would naturally exist when you bring two disparate organizations together.”
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