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CBS Reveals Fall 2026 Schedule:
'Matlock,' 'Ghosts' Held for Midseason
as Three New Series Set Premieres
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CBS unveiled a 2026-2027 primetime schedule on Wednesday with just
two new dramas (including the surprise addition of new spinoff
"NCIS: New York") and one new comedy - but otherwise filled with
returning series. New to the Eye network's fall schedule, along
with "NCIS: New York," is drama "Cupertino," while also new is the
comedy "Eternally Yours." As part of its fall announcement, CBS
revealed that two of its biggest hits - "Matlock" and "Ghosts" -
will 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 entertainment president Amy Reisenbach said.

In announcing their schedule, CBS said that newcomer "NCIS: New York"
would air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET, sandwiched between "NCIS" and
"NCIS: Origins." (Returning show "NCIS: Sydney" will return in
midseason.) On Thursdays, newbie "Eternally Yours" will air at
8:30 p.m., after "Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage," while fresh
drama "Cupertino" will run at 10 p.m. That puts "Elsbeth" on the
night at 9 p.m.

Mondays will consist of "FBI" and "CIA," followed by "Harlan Coben's
Final Twist" at 10 p.m. Wednesdays ("Survivor" and "The Amazing Race")
and Fridays ("Sheriff Country," "Fire Country" and "Boston Blue")
remain unchanged. On Sundays, "60 Minutes," new hit "Marshals" and
"Tracker" continue, with repeats at 10 p.m. And as usual, Saturdays
are repeats and "48 Hours."

Also on deck for midseason is newcomer "Einstein," which has been in
the works for some time and already has several episodes in the can.

Still up in the air are unscripted series 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
said.

As part of the schedule reveal, Reisenbach shared details on projects
still in development, including "Flint," starring and executive
produced by Matt LeBlanc and a medical-themed show set in the "Fire
Country"/ "Sheriff Country" universe.

CBS said it would once again air the MTV Video Music Awards in
simulcast with MTV on Sunday, Sept. 27; and for the first time, the
Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards will air on both CBS and Nick on
Saturday, Nov. 14.

Additionally, "The Price Is Right" will air its first ever live event,
a "The Price Is Right Live" Christmas special in December. Also back
are "New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash" on Dec. 31 and the
Golden Globes, once again hosted by Nikki Glaser, on Sunday, Jan. 10
at 8 p.m. ET.

The new shows fill the shelf space left by freshman comedy "DMV" and
sophomore drama "Watson," both of which?were recently canceled.
Long-running comedy "The Neighborhood" is also ending after this
final season.

"In terms of DMV and Watson, we love both those shows," Reisenbach
said. "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 series include freshman hits "Boston Blue" and "Sheriff
Country," both of which were given speedy Season 2 renewals by CBS in
December. In January, the Eye renewed the lion's share of its 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 previous year.) Revealed as
part of its schedule announcement was also the return of "Harlan
Coben's Final Twist" for a Season 2.

Most recently, 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 said.
"We have a strong foundation of returning hits, many of which are still
earlier in their life cycle."

"Eternally Yours" just received its order for the 2026-2027 broadcast
season last week. From "Ghosts" writers and executive producers Joe Port
and Joe Wiseman, stars Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards as "a vampire couple
whose once-passionate romance has devolved 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 side, CBS had already figured out its two new series
pickups for fall 2026 months ago. In October, the Eye network had
greenlighted the Silicon Valley legal 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 show 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 further back, the new drama "Einstein," starring "Criminal
Minds" alum Matthew Gray Gubler was originally meant to begin airing
during the 2025-2026 season, but was?delayed to the 2026-2027 TV
season back in April due to limited shelf space on the Eye. (The project
has been in the works for quite some time, having first been ordered to
pilot in August 2024.) That show is now being held for midseason.

Based on a German format, "Einstein" is a drama following the brilliant
but directionless great grandson of Albert Einstein, who works as a
comfortably tenured professor until he runs into the law and is forced
to help a local police detective solve cases.Gubler plays Lewis Einstein,
whose gift to help solve homicide cases may offer his life some purpose,
alongside Rosa Salazar as Veronica "Ronni" Paris," a sharp and
disciplined detective for the New Jersey State Police. "Einstein" is
executive produced by Andy Breckman, Tariq Jalil, Rose Hughes, Rodrigo
Herrera Ibarguengoytia, Laura Beetz?and director Randy Zisk.

George Cheeks, the chair of TV media at Paramount, opened the CBS press
conference by sharing his outlook on the network: "We develop year round,
not on a traditional pilot calendar, and that's been working for us," he
said. "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 full CBS lineup for fall 2026.

The 2026-2027 Fall Schedule Programming Highlights:

Mondays
8 p.m. FBI
9 p.m. 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 p.m. Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage
8:30 p.m. Eternally Yours (NEW)
9 p.m. Elsbeth
10 p.m. Cupertino (NEW)

Fridays
8 p.m. Sheriff Country
9 p.m. Fire Country
10 p.m. Boston Blue

Saturdays
8 p.m. Repeats
10 p.m. 48 Hours

Sundays
7 p.m. 60 Minutes
8 p.m. Marshals
9 p.m. Tracker
10 p.m. Repeats

Midseason
Einstein (NEW)
Matlock
Ghosts
NCIS: Sydney



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