‘DOWNTOWN’ OUT; ‘OUTLAWS’ IS IN
“Downtown” is going down the tubes. CBS said Wednesday that it will be bouncing the first-year police series from the prime-time schedule at the end of the month.
Replacing it on Saturdays at 8 p.m. will be “Outlaws,” an hourlong action-adventure show about four outlaws and a sheriff from 1899 who are transported through time to 1986 Houston, where they patch up their differences and try to adapt to their new environment by setting up a detective agency.
Starring in “Outlaws” are Rod Taylor, William Lucking, Richard Roundtree, Charles Napier and Patrick Houser.
“Downtown,” which ranks 63rd among the 75 network series that have aired this season, will have its final broadcast Dec. 27, CBS said. “Outlaws” will debut the following night at 9 with a two-hour premiere, then will take up residence in its Saturday slot Jan. 3.
Only three of the seven series that CBS introduced last fall are still scheduled to be on the air come the first of the year: “Designing Women,” “My Sister Sam” and “The Wizard.”
“Better Days” and “Kay O’Brien” have been canceled and “Together We Stand” is in limbo.
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