FOOTBALL KICKS BIG BANG BACK TO MONDAYS

CBS is moving its top-rated The Big Bang Theory out of its Thursday-night berth so that it can carry its newly acquired NFL Thursday Night Football during football season. It will air instead on Monday nights at 8:00 p.m., a half-hour before the start of ESPN’s Monday Night Football, the top-rated program on cable. Following its limited football-season telecasts, The Big Bang Theory is scheduled to return to Thursday nights beginning October 30 with 2 Broke Girls moving into the Monday slot to replace it. At 9:00 p.m. on Mondays, the network is introducing the drama Scorpion, to be followed at 10:00 with NCIS: Los Angeles.