GAME TIME CHANGE: CBS YANKS NEW EPISODES

[fishingvegas.livejournal.com]

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- With its first-run cupboards nearly empty, CBS has quietly pulled new episodes of "NCIS," "Criminal Minds" and "CSI: NY" from this week's schedule.

Said installments - "Tribes" (December 18), "3rd Life" (December 19) and "Happily Never After" (December 19) respectively - will be replaced by repeats from earlier this season - "Bury Your Dead," "About Face" and "The Deep."

No new air dates have been announced.

"CSI: Miami" (December 17), "The Unit" (December 18) and "Cane" (December 18) also have new episodes slated for this week but will run as normal.