Lox with Les

The CBS schedule isn't especially glamorous, but the announcement is always the highlight of the week, thanks to the annual command performance given by Les Moonves. (After doing his best to play nice and not take his usual dozen potshots at Jeff Zucker, Les couldn't help himself when a reporter mentioned Zucker's speech at NBC's upfront about digital content, which according to those who witnessed it was long and painful. "I hard he talked about it for a while," Les cracked, and when people started laughing, he said, "That's a statement, a factual statement.")

More on the lineup after the jump:
The line-up, night by night:

MONDAY
8:00-8:30 PM HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (NT)
8:30-9:00 PM THE CLASS (N)
9:00-9:30 PM TWO AND A HALF MEN
9:30-10:00 PM THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: MIAMI

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM NCIS
9:00-10:00 PM THE UNIT
10:00-11:00 PM SMITH (N)

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM JERICHO (N)
9:00-10:00 PM CRIMINAL MINDS
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: NY

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM SURVIVOR
9:00-10:00 PM CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
10:00-11:00 PM SHARK (N)

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM GHOST WHISPERER
9:00-10:00 PM CLOSE TO HOME
10:00-11:00 PM NUMB3RS

SATURDAY
8:00-9:00 PM CRIMETIME SATURDAY
9:00-10:00 PM CRIMETIME SATURDAY
10:00-11:00 PM 48 HOURS: MYSTERY

SUNDAY
7:00-8:00 PM 60 MINUTES
8:00-9:00 PM THE AMAZING RACE
9:00-10:00 PM COLD CASE
10:00-11:00 PM WITHOUT A TRACE

Some thoughts:

• "HIMYM" would be safer after "Two and a Half Men," but the combination of it and "The Class" (written by "Friends" co-creator David Crane) could be very cool, and in general there's less I want to watch Monday at 8 than there is at 9.
  
• "Race" is at 8 p.m. permanently, a good move for such a family-friendly show but maybe not such a great night, since ABC has "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" there.
• "Smith" stars Ray Liotta as a master thief planning one last job, and Virginia Madsen is his wife. So much for "Sideways" leading to a revival of her movie career.
  
• My favorite James Woods movie is "True Believer," so even though he's playing a different kind of defense lawyer in "Shark," I'm there unless the "Six Degrees" pilot just knocks my socks off.
  
• "Jericho" has an interesting concept (small Midwestern town survives a nuclear detonation but is cut off from the rest of the world), but Skeet Ulrich as your lead? Really? Really?
  
• "King of Queens" is coming back at midseason for 13 final episodes, but anything else from this year you don't see on the schedule is dead.
  

Not much else to say, but feel free to fire any questions about it.