‘Indiana Jones,’ ‘Titanic,’ Other Contemporary Classics to Air on CBS in May
CBS is launching a month-long sequence of Sunday movie nights in May, featuring five contemporary classic movies to keep viewers entertained while they stay indoors. The network announced that the weekly programing event will kick off on May 3 and will feature two “Indiana Jones” films, “Forrest Gump,” the first “Mission: Impossible,” and “Titanic.” The titles all hail from Paramount Pictures’ library, which is also part of the ViacomCBS family.
“It’s a five-week programming event with epic films, iconic stars and brilliant stories that viewers love…and love to watch together,” Noriko Kelley, an executive vice president at CBS Entertainment, said in a statement.
As for newer projects, CBS made headlines yesterday when the company announced that it would air a special pandemic episode of “All Rise.” The Simone Missick-led legal drama’s upcoming episode will be shot using various social media platforms and online technologies and the production will abide by social distancing guidelines.
ViacomCBS is one of numerous entertainment companies that have been broadly impacted by current events and are starting to experiment with different forms and schedules for their offerings. The company has halted production on shows ranging from “The Amazing Race” to “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and other companies and studios have followed suit for their own projects. CBS’ May film programming will replace the original episodes of “Love Island” that were scheduled for May 24 and May 31; the status of the reality series is up in the air to the ongoing pandemic.
CBS previously ran a “CBS Sunday Movie” franchise that ended in the 2004-2005 television season.
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The schedule for CBS’ upcoming May Sunday movie night programming is as follows:
May 3: “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” (8-11 p.m., ET/PT)
May 10: “Forrest Gump” (8-11 p.m., ET/PT)
May 17: “Mission: Impossible” (8-11 p.m., ET/PT)
May 24: “Titanic” (7-11 p.m., ET/PT)
May 31: “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (8-11 p.m., ET/PT)
