My personal opinion is no. CID moving to another channel means that Sony is bigger than CID and CID is expendable. That shouldn't be the case. Because CID has been on Sony since its inception and that is a 20 year long period. CID is only 3 years younger than Sony itself. And CID and Sony are synonymous with each other. When you say CID, people immediately think Sony and vice versa.
In fact I'm of the opinion that CID should just end. I know this may not be the popular opinion, but in my view CID has run its due course. It has given us 20 years of beautiful memories, amazing episodes, great characters, good criminals, and more. Now it is becoming a drag. Because it no longer falls into the category of kids' investigation shows or adult investigation shows. Today both kids and adults are asking for realism. A back story to the cops that is well-developed. A smart criminal arc. Seasonal shows. That's what people want nowadays. CID unfortunately does not provide any of these.
But this isn't my only reason. I also feel somewhere Sony has gotten tired of showcasing CID as well. That's why they just don't air episodes some weekends or air them at different timings. That's why they've shifted the timeslot around so many times in the past few years and brought in a spin-off that didn't work (CID Chote Heroes). Sony knows that CID has reached its end, but if they had just ended it then they risked hurting themselves. They want it to reach a point where viewers just stop watching CID, stop searching for it every weekend, stop giving it TRPs. They want people to forget about CID so that when it goes off air no on reacts as it was expected.
Don't get me wrong. I love CID, but in the past few months I've felt that it no longer has the charm that it once had. It feels mechanical. The introduction of this Eye Gang series is a good series, but I won't watch it until the end because in the past CID has brought in good criminals and then it's gone kaput at the end. Katori Damta was a case in point. I loved that criminal. I wanted to see more of him. And then it just went kaput. Even today I've got a series planned with him, but I just don't have the willpower to actually write it out knowing that it won't go anywhere. Herpes Dongra was another great criminal and the Aakhri Chunauti a great series. But again the ending wasn't really what I was looking for. They need to have a few criminals that get away. Not every criminal gets caught. When they brought Nakul back I was hoping for some mind-boggling revelation, not a stupid mask over a criminal that looks nothing like Nakul once the mask is removed.
Anyways, that's my two cents on this topic.
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