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 mid season,” 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 frosh drama “Cupertino” will run at 10 p.m. That puts “Elsbeth” on the night at 9 p.m.
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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.”
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“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.
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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
