The Bad Teacher move will be preceded by The Crazy Ones and Two and a Half Men flipping time slots, with the former concluding its first season on April 17th. The time slot change will occur on February 27th. Meanwhile, Undercover Boss, which has been performing well for CBS, will conclude its 15-episode season on Friday, March 27th, making way for the recently resurrected drama starring Poppy Montgomery. It’s the first time CBS has had a drama in this particular hour since A Gifted Man in 2011.

Not receiving a premiere date was legal drama Reckless, which has effectively been pushed to summer. Bad Teacher is in an interesting position in that it only has three weeks to make a positive ratings impression on CBS executives before the network has its upfronts presentations in May. Airing behind Two and a Half Men could give it the boost necessary to earn an early second season renewal, but since CBS held it for so long anyway, they might see what it can do in the summer before making a final decision. Meanwhile, The Crazy Ones got the move that it should have earlier in the season, as the Robin Williams comedy has been struggling to hold up the 9:00 hour while being the only single camera comedy in the lineup and airing after The Millers, one of the most tonally incompatible comedies it could have been paired with. Whether the move will allow it to feed off of Men‘s audience, though, remains to be seen.

Which of the CBS Thursday comedies do you think will return next season? Should CBS have made the move to flip Two and a Half Men and The Crazy Ones earlier in the season? Will you be watching Bad Teacher?

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The network is facing a 2014-2015 season that may not include both How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men, so they’ve went into overdrive trying to find their next generation of comedies. Single-cam ensemble We Are Men and Chuck Lorre’s Mom are surrounding 2 Broke Girls on Monday, while family comedy The Millers and Robin Williams vehicle The Crazy Ones will air on Thursdays, bookended by The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men, respectively. Last season, CBS only ordered two comedy pilots to series, with one making it to air in Partners, which was yanked early in the season. With six comedies in contention, and a shorter leash on everything debuting in the fall, can the network find their next wave of hits? Or will they limp into 2014-2015 without much of a comedy presence to speak of?

Starring Ari Graynor, Bad Teacher follows an always inappropriate, fearless and unapologetic former trophy wife who masquerades as a teacher in order to find a new man after her wealthy husband leaves her penniless. The show also stars the likes of Sarah Gilbert, David Alan Grier, Kristin Davis, and Ryan Hansen.

You can check out CBS’ 2013-2014 schedule here, as well as behind the scenes featurettes of its fall shows here.

Will you be watching Bad Teacher this season? Where do you think CBS will schedule the show? Can it be a success?

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