The Cube-sters will cry big tears over this one. Minute To Win It has terminated NBC's scripted loser Chase with extreme prejudice. Fieri and friends hit a series high 3.0 18-49 rating and 9.5 million viewers in the 9:00 PM hour last Wednesday. So NBC has waved bye-bye to Chase and will now run two hours of Minute repeats and originals every Wednesday night.The Brit-worshipping Cube-sters will whine about how padded and slow Minute is, but that's a really bad joke. Cube is the slowest, dullest, most padded game show ever foisted on teevee watchers. The even-tempered Brits can apparently somehow tolerate the glacial proceedings. After all, they lost an empire with little more than a shrug. Us unreconstructed Yanks can be thankful that CBS spared us an American version when they didn't pick up last year's pilot with Neil Patrick Harris.
Trouble is, if Minute keeps pulling big numbers, CBS may change their mind and splatter the interminable Cube on our screens. Well, that's the price you pay for success. Meanwhile, Minute will soon face tougher competition in the 9:00 PM hour than the repeats it confronted last Wednesday.
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