Matlock, Ghosts Go Midseason, Three New Shows
C.B.S. unveiled a 2026-2027 primetime schedule on Wednesday with simply two new dramas (together with the shock addition of recent spinoff “NCIS: New York”) and one new comedy — however in any other case crammed with returning collection. New to the Eye community’s fall schedule, together with “NCIS: New York,” is drama “Cupertino,” whereas additionally new is the comedy “Eternally Yours.” As a part of its failed announcement, CBS revealed that two of its largest hits — “Matlock” and “Ghosts” — shall be saved for midseason.
“It really speaks to the strength of our schedule that we’re in a position to move bonafide hits like ‘Matlock’ and ‘Ghosts’ to midseason,” CBS leisure president Amy Reisenbach stated.
In asserting their schedule, CBS stated that newcomer “NCIS: New York” would air Tuesdays at 9 pm ET, sandwiched between “NCIS” and “NCIS: Origins.” (Returning present “NCIS: Sydney” will return in midseason.) On Thursdays, beginner “Eternally Yours” will air at 8:30 pm, after “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” whereas frosh drama “Cupertino” will run at 10 pm That places “Elsbeth” on the evening at 9 pm
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Mondays will encompass “FBI” and “CIA,” adopted by “Harlan Coben’s Final Twist” at 10 pm Wednesdays (“Survivor” and “The Amazing Race”) and Fridays (“Sheriff Country,” “Fire Country” and “Boston Blue”) stay unchanged. On Sundays, “60 Minutes,” new hit “Marshals” and “Tracker” proceed, with repeats at 10 pm And as ordinary, Saturdays are repeats and “48 Hours.”
Also on deck for midseason is newcomer “Einstein,” which has been within the works for a while and already has a number of episodes within the can.
Still up within the air are unscripted collection like “America’s Culinary Cup” and “The Road.” “The unscripted shows really are on a different timeline, so we will make decisions on those later on,” Reisenbach stated.
As a part of the schedule reveal, Reisenbach shared details on projects still in developmenttogether with “Flint,” starring and government produced by Matt LeBlanc and a medical-themed present set within the “Fire Country”/ “Sheriff Country” universe.
CBS stated it could as soon as once more air the MTV Video Music Awards in simulcast with MTV on Sunday, Sept. 27; and for the primary time, the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards will air on each CBS and Nick on Saturday, Nov. 14.
Additionally, “The Price Is Right” will air its first ever reside occasion, a “The Price Is Right Live” Christmas particular in December. Also again are “New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash” on Dec. 31 and the Golden Globes, as soon as once more hosted by Nikki Glaser, on Sunday, Jan. 10 at 8 pm ET.
The new reveals fill the shelf area left by freshman comedy “DMV” and sophomore drama “Watson,” each of which were recently canceled. Long-running comedy “The Neighborhood” can also be ending after this closing season.
“In terms of DMV and Watson, we love both those shows,” Reisenbach stated. “They were joy to work on. Morris Chestnut may be one of the greatest No. 1s I’ve ever dealt with. But, it’s a high bar on CBS. We aggregate all the numbers we look at, and we have to make those tough decisions in order to make room for new shows.”
Returning collection embody freshman hits “Boston Blue” and “Country Sheriff“both of which were given speedy Season 2 renewals by CBS in December. In January, the Eye renewed the lion’s share of his shows: “tracker” (renewed for Season 4), “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” (renewed for Season 3), “Matlock” (renewed for Season 3), “Elsbeth” (renewed for Season 4), “Fire Country” (renewed for Season 5), “NCIS” (renewed for Season 24), “NCIS: Origins” (renewed for Season 3), “NCIS: Sydney” (renewed for Season 4), “Survivor” (renewed for Season 51) and “The Amazing Race” (renewed for Season 39). (“Ghosts” had already been renewed for Season 6 the earlier 12 months.) Revealed as a part of its schedule announcement was additionally the return of “Harlan Coben’s Final Twist” for a Season 2.
Most just lately, CBS gave a quick Season 2 renewal to “Marshals,” its new drama set inside Taylor Sheridan‘s “Yellowstone” universe. The show’s March 1 premiere posted 20.6 million multiplatform viewers (including CBS and Paramount+) within seven days, making it the most-watched broadcast original series premiere without an NFL lead-in since 2000, according to CBS. And then “CIA” was given a Season 2 order in March.
“Our long-term planning and development strategy is paying off and allowed us to announce our schedule earlier than ever,” Reisenbach stated. “We have a strong foundation of returning hits, many of which are still earlier in their life cycle.”
“Eternally Yours” just received your order for the 2026-2027 broadcast season final week. From “Ghosts” writers and government producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, stars Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards as “a vampire couple whose once-passionate romance has returned into a pulseless marriage after 500 years together. Living in present-day Seattle with their oddball coven, they’ve settled into an eternal rut—until their daughter’s (Helen J. Shen) earnest human boyfriend (Jaren Lewison) unexpectedly enters their lives and forces them to confront whether their love “can survive forever… or if forever is a life sentence.”
On the drama aspect, CBS had already found out its two new collection pickups for fall 2026 months in the past. In October, the Eye network had greenlighted the Silicon Valley authorized drama “Cupertino” from Robert and Michelle King, and starring Mike Colter, Rachel Keller, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Ella Stiller, Busy Philipps and Nik Dodani. The logline states that the present is “a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley that follows a lawyer (Colter) who is being cheated out of his stock-options by his former employer, a tech start-up. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney (Keller) to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite, and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley.”
And even additional again, the brand new drama “Einstein,” starring “Criminal Minds” alum Matthew Gray Gubler was initially meant to start airing throughout the 2025-2026 season, however was delayed to the 2026-2027 TV season back in April as a consequence of restricted shelf area on the Eye. (The undertaking has been within the works for fairly a while, having first been ordered to pilot in August 2024.) That present is now being held for midseason.
“Einstein” is government produced by Andy Breckman, Tariq. Jalil, Rose Hughes, Rodrigo Herrera Ibarguengoytia, Laura Beetz and director Randy Zisk.
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George Cheeks, the chair of TV media at Paramount, opened the CBS press convention by sharing his outlook on the community: “We develop year round, not on a traditional pilot calendar, and that’s been working for us,” he stated. “We continued to expand our key franchises this season, we launched ‘Marshals,’ ‘CIA,’ ‘Sheriff Country’ and ‘Boston Blue.’ Original concepts like ‘Tracker’ remain dominant, and we’ll be introducing some new original concepts for the next season, including ‘Cupertino’ and ‘Eternally Yours.’ So for us, any greenlight or renewal decision starts with one question: Will the series perform on CBS, to the core CBS older audience and find an unduplicated younger audience on Paramount+? Now, for the past few seasons, we’ve launched hit shows virtually every night of the week that do exactly that. “This all adds up to a schedule purpose built for launching new series and scaling audiences.”
Here is the total CBS lineup for fall 2026:
The 2026-2027 Fall Schedule Programming Highlights:
Mondays
8 pm FBI
9 pm CIA
10 p.m. Harlan Coben’s Final Twist
Tuesdays
8 p.m. NCIS
9 p.m. NCIS: New York
10 p.m. NCIS: Origins
Wednesdays
8 p.m. Survivor
9:30 p.m. The Amazing Race
Thursdays
8 pm Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage
8:30 pm Eternally Yours (NEW)
9 pm Elsbeth
10 pm Cupertino (NEW)
Fridays
8 p.m. Sheriff Country
9 p.m. Fire Country
10 p.m. Boston Blue
Saturdays
8 pm Repeats
10 pm 48 Hours
Sundays
7 pm 60 Minutes
8 p.m. Marshals
9 pm Tracker
10 pm Repeats
Midseason
Einstein (NEW)
Matlock
Ghosts
NCIS: Sydney
