CBS Pulls Two Terrorism-Themed Programs

CBS has chose to pull episodes of “Supergirl” and “NCIS: Los Angeles” in light of Friday’s terror attacks on the people of Paris.

CBS will now show the episode Livewire in its place, which was originally set to air next week.

The “NCIS” episode, “Defectors”, dealt with ISIS recruiting young women.

CBS has replaced the originally scheduled episode of Supergirl for Monday, November 16 with another episode due to terrorism-related content.

The new episode will focus on finding a missing woman that LL Cool J’s character, Sam Hanna, helped earn asylum in the U.S. In 1999, two episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s third season that depicted violence in school were delayed for months as the first was scheduled to air just one week after the Columbine High School massacre.

A person close to the situation confirmed that the change was made out of sensitivity to the Paris attacks. A new episode of Supergirl will still air in the timeslot, and it will be the “Livewire” episode that was meant to air the week of Thanksgiving.

In Monday’s “Supergirl”, the hero was supposed to be saving National City from a series of bombings. “Tonight we will not air out of respect for our friends in Paris”, the show’s writers and cast members said via the official Twitter page of Undateable Writers, expressing their support for the victims and their families.

“Supergirl” airs Mondays at 8 p.m., while “NCIS: LA” airs at 10 p.m. The drama that airs between them, “Scorpion”, is unaffected by the changes. Rearranging a show’s episodes can’t be easy, but the network seems to recognize that last thing we need on television right now is more terrorism, whether it is real or fictional. The controversial scene, which caused the episode to be moved, was when James Plouffe’s (Richard Bekins), E Corp’s EVP of technology commits suicide on live TV by shooting himself in the head.