It was inevitable and now it's almost here - shows normally available only on streaming services will be coming to free TV, as desperate American networks look to fill time any way they can during the writers and actors' strikes in Hollywood. 

CBS announced on Monday that it was bringing season one of its popular series, "Yellowstone" with Kevin Costner, to the Eye Network, borrowing it from its streaming-only Paramount+ service.  (The show is now in its 5th season online, and Costner has since left.) 

This isn't the first time an original Paramount+ show was on the main network - during the COVID production shutdown, CBS showed the entire first season of "The Good Fight," the sequel to its own "The Good Wife." The former show is no longer in production, ending last year.

In another interesting twist, CBS will combine reruns of Season One of its popular sitcom "Ghosts" with a double showing of the U.K. version, which inspired it. It's never been seen in the U.S. before. (CBCGem has had it online for a while. If you're interested, you can watch it for free here.)

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Meanwhile, ABC is dipping into its Disney+ vaults for a show called "Ms, Marvel," It will be shown over two nights, with three episodes on Sat. Aug. 5th and the following trio a week later. (Odd that they would throw it away on a Saturday, the least viewed night of the week, but the network has committed to a ton of game shows while the strike lasts, so they have to get this one in somewhere.) 

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And as previously announced, The CW will have several nights of all Canadian programming, including the CBC's "Son of a Critch" and "Sullivan's Crossing," both of which have previously aired here. 

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So far, no word on whether any of the Star Trek remakes will be shown over free TV, but the first season of one of them also aired during the pandemic-stoppage on CBS, so there's always a chance it might fly to the network's rescue depending on how long these walkouts continue.