Crimetime Saturday

Crimetime Saturday is the official branding for a programming block that started in 2004–05 on the American CBS and Canadian CTV networks between 9 and 11 p.m. ET/PT on Saturday nights. However, the branding is only listed by industry sources as a placeholder for the time slot, and not as an official on-air branding for night. The first two hours feature reruns of CBS's crime drama procedural series, which include the three series of the CSI franchise, Criminal Minds, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Cold Case, Flashpoint and The Mentalist, with the final hour featuring a new or encore edition of the CBS News newsmagazine program 48 Hours Mystery, which focuses on true crime stories. Several times a year 48 Hours will air two-hour specials or consecutive episodes. Beginning in the 2011-12 season, the block was reduced to two hours from three to make room for Comedytime Saturday, a one-hour sitcom block, from 8–9 p.m. ET/PT. However, that hour was restored to Crimetime for the 2012-13 season due to that block never being executed as planned and becoming a basic hour of repeat sitcoms. In a few cases, burned off shows such as Made in Jersey have aired in the first or both hours to minimize ratings damage, along with an episode of Vegas in mid-April 2013 pushed up by a night due to CBS News coverage of the apprehension of the Boston Marathon bombings suspect.