Written by: Noah Sanders

 

CBS is a baffling company.  For years and years they've been pigeonholed as an old person network, smashing competitors with their ceaseless 'CSI' shows, while filling the gaping the holes in between with doddering old folk television.  I swear to god I saw Dick Van Dyke creeping around that channel last night.  Next years slate for the channel shows a great deal of forward progression though, with a handful of exciting and bizarre shows flitering in.  But, progress can only go so far with a television stalwart like this, so the network has picked up another installment of their popular (with old people) TV-movie series 'Jesse Stone'.

 

Formerly mustachioed Hawaiian P.I. plays Jesse Stone, a small town police chief who solves murder mysteries.  The series has been a lowkey hit for the network, as old people love Tom Selleck, and small towns reach out to old people's memories of their villages back in Europe.  The newest entry in the series, 'Jessie Stone: Thin Ice' follows Stone as he tries to solve the attempted murder of a friend, while simultaneously solving a kidnapping case long thought finished. 

 

The TV-movies are based on author Robert B. Parker's series of books.