Series creators Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds wanted M * A * S * H broadcast without a laugh track (" Just like the actual Korean War ", Gelbart remarked dryly ), but CBS rejected the idea.

However, CBS rejected the idea.

CBS, the network that aired Genesis II, rejected Roddenberry's proposed series in favor of the short-lived Planet of the Apes, which also involved time travel and a post-apocalyptic society.

The first involved Castle Rock, the production company behind series such as Seinfeld, but the initial scripts were not felt to be good enough, and David Renwick's scripts were rejected by CBS.

which was shot in 1958 by Desilu ; however, the show was rejected by CBS and in turn Vance continued in her Ethel Mertz role.

CBS already had their schedule filled for the summer months and rejected the idea.

Prior to the broadcast, CBS rejected the MoveOn. org Super Bowl ad Bush in 30 Seconds because it was deemed too controversial.

" MoveOn. org attempted to place the winning ad, " Child's Pay ," as an advertisement during the 2004 Super Bowl, but CBS rejected the ad, along with one from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, for being " controversial ", drawing criticism for what critics alleged was censorship.

The album was released on CBS Records in West Germany, although CBS rejected the East German cover artwork as amateurish and supplied their own.

Bristol-Myers contracted with them to develop the show, and provided it to ABC for a projected 13-week run after NBC and CBS rejected it.

It stated that both CBS and NBC had rejected the show due to its perceived lack of quality, and that its sexual content was an important reason why viewers rejected the show.

Another ad that was rejected by CBS for failure to meet standards was for the texting service kgb, which focuses on two men with CGI-enhanced images bent over with their heads in their posteriors, while an actor, Sean Gunn, portraying an agent stated that " They had their head up their ".

The station aired the CBS version of The Merv Griffin Show after WISN-TV rejected it, and after Griffin was cancelled by CBS, The Dick Cavett Show which had been pre-empted by then ABC affiliate WITI.

When the cast was selected for the series 3 lbs, Aylesworth was chosen for the role of Dr. Adrienne Holland, but the pilot was rejected by CBS.

The series came about when the Terrytoons staff were pitching series proposals to the animation company's parent corporation, the CBS television network, only to have them all rejected.

Iglehart, the Orioles ' largest shareholder at 32 % and owner of a sizable amount of CBS stock, straightened out his conflict of interest issues on May 25, 1965 by selling his 64, 000 shares in the ball-club to the National Brewing Company, an original team investor which finally had controlling interest at 65 %.

Both Desilu, Too and Lucille Ball Productions work hand-in-hand with MPI Home Video in the home video re-issues of the Ball / Arnaz material not currently owned by CBS ( successor-in-interest to Paramount Television, which in turn succeeded the original Desilu company ).

He won directing Emmys for his work on the original 1954 CBS teleplay, Twelve Angry Men.

Paramount ( via CBS DVD ) has outright video distribution to the aforementioned CBS library with few exceptions-for example, the original Twilight Zone DVDs are handled by Image Entertainment.

Until 2009, the video rights to My Fair Lady were with original theatrical distributor Warner Bros., under license from CBS ( the video license to that film has now reverted to CBS DVD under Paramount ).

One of the earliest mainstream manifestations of the steampunk ethos was the original CBS television series The Wild Wild West ( 1965 – 69 ), which inspired the film Wild Wild West ( 1999 ).

During this game, CBS would introduce a new theme that would be used the following season for the NFL Today pregame show between 1976 and 1981 in its original form, with a remake for 1982 followed by updates for 1983 and 1989 before its retirement.

NBC, which had held XXVII ( according the original rotation, NBC would have had XXVI and CBS XXVII, but the NFL allowed the networks to switch the two games in order to allow CBS a significant lead-in to its coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics ), was the only network to bid on XXVIII.

Once the program entered syndication after the original run of the series, CBS broadcast reruns of the 12th season in late night under the title McGarrett to avoid confusion with the episodes in syndication broadcast under the title Hawaii Five-O.

She is known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Michelle Flaherty in the four main original American Pie film series.

On July 19, a new Match Game set was built by CBS, changed from the original bright orange to a new set with blue and white colors, as well as revamping the logo from the curved letters to a straight-line lettering it would use for the rest of the run ( this logo also forms the base of the 2012 English-language Canadian revival version's logo ).

From 2001 to 2003, the Larson episodes were banned from airing on GSN until clips were incorporated in Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal – including footage not aired during the original CBS broadcast.

The original Viacom was renamed CBS Corporation and got the broadcasting elements, Paramount Television's production operations ( renamed CBS Paramount Television, now two separate arms, CBS Television Studios for production and CBS Television Distribution for syndicated program distribution ), Viacom Outdoor advertising ( renamed CBS Outdoor ), Showtime Networks, Simon & Schuster and Paramount Parks, which the company later sold, while the new Viacom kept Paramount Pictures, MTV Networks, BET Networks, and ( until it was sold off in 2007 ) Famous Music.

Showtime 2 carries one original program exclusive to the network, a late night program called Big Brother After Dark as a companion series to the American Big Brother series airing on sister broadcast network CBS.

While touring Europe with La MaMa, Cuomo landed a recording contract with CBS France, left the troupe in 1971 and settled in Paris with several members of the original Misty Mountain Mormos — Sandy Spencer ( cellist ) and Tobia Taylor ( balalaika ).

* On the day the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles wrapped up their respective League Championship Series in 1969, a feature story on the CBS Evening News showed telecast clips of the ALCS game ( albeit with no original sound ).

He also starred in the short-lived but critically lauded 1976 period detective series City of Angels and the 1979 – 1982 CBS series House Calls, first with Lynn Redgrave, and then later with actress Sharon Gless, who went on to co-star in the CBS-TV crime drama series Cagney and Lacey with actress Tyne Daly ( coincidentally, one of the House Calls co-stars was Roger Bowen who played the original Colonel Henry Blake in the MASH movie ).

The film was released to MGM / CBS Home Video in the United States as part of the original 24-title VHS / Betamax package in October 1980.

He played a daredevil stunt pilot in an episode of the short-lived 1976 CBS adventure series Spencer's Pilots, starring Gene Evans.

Following the game, CBS aired the pilot episode of Airwolf.

The one-hour pilot for a revived show, called Hawaii Five-0 ( the last character is a zero instead of the letter " O "), aired September 20, 2010 on CBS, and as of October 2010, the series now airs Monday nights at 10 PM Eastern, 9 PM Central time.

* Howie ( 1962 CBS comedy series unsold pilot )

The show began as a black-and-white pilot episode filmed for CBS on April 21, 1965.

CBS shot a second pilot hosted by Sandy Baron, but chose not to pick up the program with either host.

Lorimar produced the series, CBS produced the pilot film, which is why Paramount, under CBS Home Entertainment, handles home video rights for The Homecoming.

A US adaptation pilot episode called Beane's of Boston aired on 5 May 1979 on CBS, but it didn't make it through a full season.

Serling submitted The Time Element to CBS, intending it to be a pilot for his new weekly show, The Twilight Zone.

The episode received so much positive fan response that CBS agreed to let Serling go ahead with his pilot for The Twilight Zone

Another pilot was filmed for CBS, Julie Brown: The Show, and featured a similar theme, in which Brown was the hostess of a talk show and she would interview actual celebrity guests, interspersed with scripted scenarios.

* In the 1977 television movie pilot for the CBS series The Amazing Spider-Man, Aunt May is portrayed by actress Jeff Donnell.

McQueen then filmed the pilot episode, which became the series titled Wanted: Dead or Alive, which began on CBS in September 1958.

After showing the pilot to several advertising agencies, at first with not much luck, CBS was able to sell the series to the Milton Biow agency, which was able to convince one of their clients, cigarette giant Philip Morris, to sponsor the show.

Kreviazuk's " Time " was played in the credits of the movie Uptown Girls, and featured in an episode of the MTV reality show, Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, the pilot episode of the ABC romantic comedy / drama Men in Trees, the CBS drama Joan of Arcadia, and the ABC family movie Lucky 7.

Cassandra was born in Manhattan and later was involved in The Elvira Show, a 1993 CBS television pilot revolving around two witches ( played by Elvira and Katherine Helmond ) who move to Manhattan with their talking cat.

* The plot of the failed 1993 CBS television pilot The Elvira Show revolves around two witches, played by Elvira and Katherine Helmond, moving to Manhattan with their talking cat.

He appeared in a regular role in the second season of the television series War of the Worlds ( 1989 – 1990 ) as John Kincaid, three episodes of Dark Shadows ( 1991 ) as Jeremiah Collins, and made a pilot for CBS Television for a series called The Owl ( 1991 ).

The pilot episode, " The Looney Beginning ," aired as a prime-time special on CBS on September 14, 1990 ; while the series itself was featured in first-run syndication for the first two seasons.

After a third pilot was shot, CBS picked up the show, known as All in the Family.

In 1987, Lee starred in the unsold television pilot Kung Fu: The Next Generation which aired on CBS Summer Playhouse and was another follow-up to the Kung Fu TV series.

Peter Roth, at that time the president of Stephen J. Cannell Productions, obtained a copy of Carter's pilot script for Cool Culture, and although the series was never picked up, Roth was interested in hiring Carter to work on the CBS series Palace Guard.

It was also used in the pilot episode of the CBS TV show, Jericho and in a promo for WGRZ aired during Super Bowl XLVI.

In 1978, she failed with the television pilot of The Grass is Always Greener on CBS.