Also the CBS website for TPIR isn't listing any airdate info whatsoever (reruns or otherwise) past March 26.
The reason may be because, as per another source, the trial may last upwards of four weeks. So CBS does not have any episodes of
Price on the network's schedule, in case trial coverage lasts many, many weeks and causes pre-emptions for the entire duration.
It certainly wouldn't be the first time there were many consecutive episodes pre-empted. One example is the Iraq War coverage that caused just over two weeks of pre-emptions - which included ten consecutive episodes - occurring from March 24 through April 4, 2003. When the show returned on April 7 that year, reruns were initially planned before the coverage started, but that became a full week of rescheduled episodes - if memory serves correctly, the week of March 24 to 27, 2003 was aired during what would have been April break (though the March 26, 2003 episode got hit with a double whammy on April 9 that year as it was pre-empted again for coverage of the takedown of Saddam's statue, and that particular episode finally aired on September 2, 2003), and the week of March 31 through April 4, 2003, plus one episode from mid-March that year, was reserved for June after the season finale had aired.
However, I am not sure if the O.J. Simpson trial coverage during 1994 and 1995 may have caused a lot of pre-emptions during those years, could someone please clarify?
Based on past history, except for some breaking news, CBS tends to schedule special reports during the hour that
Price would normally air because CBS wants to ensure that all of America is informed of what's going on during a time slot that has the highest viewership.
