CBS has confirmed the primetime schedule for the upcoming season.
The network is coming off a successful broadcast year, with Tracker reigning as the most-watched scripted series on network television. It also launched the hit Yellowstone spinoff Marshals, which is headlined by Luke Grimes reprising the role of Kayce Dutton, and the FBI spinoff CIA. It will continue into 2026 by launching some new shows and relying on established CBS favorites.
Unlike other major networks, which will reveal their primetime schedules in May, CBS has shared the days and times for its major shows on Wednesday, April 15. However, a more surprising update is that Ghosts and Matlock will wait until midseason after they had been fall staples since their launches, as well as NCIS: Sydney.
New shows that will be added include a new NCIS spinoff, NCIS: New York, along with the legal drama Cupertino, the vampire sitcom Eternally Yours, and the Matthew Gray Gubler-led procedural Einstein. It's worth noting that Ghosts will return with two hour-long special episodes, timed for Halloween and Christmas.
The table below reveals the details of NCIS season 24, Marshals, and several others along scripted, reality, and non-fiction lines:
TV Show | Time (ET) | Day |
|---|---|---|
FBI | 8 PM | Monday |
CIA | 9 PM | Monday |
Harlan Coben’s Final Twist | 10 PM | Monday |
NCIS | 8 PM | Tuesday |
NCIS: New York | 9 PM | Tuesday |
NCIS: Origins | 10 PM | Tuesday |
Survivor | 8 PM | Wednesday |
The Amazing Race | 9:30 PM | Wednesday |
Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage | 8 PM | Thursday |
Eternally Yours (NEW) | 8:30 PM | Thursday |
Elsbeth | 9 PM | Thursday |
Cupertino (NEW) | 10 PM | Thursday |
Sheriff Country | 8 PM | Friday |
Fire Country | 9 PM | Friday |
Boston Blue | 10 PM | Friday |
48 Hours | 10 PM | Saturday |
60 Minutes | 7 PM | Sunday |
Marshals | 8 PM | Sunday |
Tracker | 9 PM | Sunday |
CBS will be adding some new scripted comedies and dramas. The most notable, arguably, is the latest NCIS spinoff. NCIS: New York will be led by franchise veteran LL Cool JJ, who is back as Sam Hanna. The veteran Special Agent returns to his home base of New York City and joins the field office where he teams up with a rebellious agent (Scott Caan) to help lead a new unit.
They take on high-risk missions together, aiming to protect one of the world’s most important cities and ports. It's executive produced by R. Scott Gemmill, who currently works on The Pitt, as well as Byron Balasco, LL Cool J, and Jason Barrett, with Balasco serving as showrunner.
As for Cuprterino, it's described as a David vs. Goliath legal drama and unfolds in the heart of Silicon Valley. The story follows a lawyer (played by Mike Colter) and catches up with him just as he's being cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech startup.
He refuses to back down, joining forces with another recently fired attorney (played by Tokyo Vice's Rachel Keller) to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back. The project reunites Colter with creators Robert and Michelle King, marking his first project since the end of Evil on Paramount+.
CBS is debuting these new offerings with the confidence of being home to 13 of the top 20 most-watched series, according to Nielsen. Those gains are led by Tracker and the fast success of Marshals. But the new shows have the potential to break out, as well, appealing to different audiences but all sticking to the type of stories that broadcast television does best.
CIA Season 2's Fate Officially Decided By CBS After Rocky Season 1 Production
The fate of CBS' new FBI spinoff series, CIA, has now been decided.
CBS confirmed that CIA has officially been renewed for season 2, following impressive viewership numbers from its series premiere. According to Paramount, the premiere episode saw 8.4 million multiplatform viewers via broadcast and streaming within the first seven days of its release.
Ratings for the first three episodes of the series showed a 39% improvement on Monday at 10 p.m. compared to the same timeslot in fall 2025.
Behind the scenes, though, CIA has had a rocky production. FBI: Most Wanted showrunner David Hudgins was initially in charge of the series, but Warren Leight later replaced him. That wasn't the end of the turnover, though, as he eventually departed, along with executive producer Eriq La Salle. Mike Weiss, who was the showrunner on the original FBI series, was hired as the CIA showrunner.
All of this turmoil, plus Michael Michele's departure from the cast, caused production delays, and CBS decided to give CIA a mid-season 2026 premiere after previously announcing it would debut in fall 2025.
CIA stars Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss as CIA Agent Colin Glass and FBI Agent Bill Goodman, respectively, who are tasked with working together on a secretive joint CIA/FBI task force. The two agents couldn't be more different, with the latter a rule-follower and the former more mischievous in nature.
While on the job together, Glass and Goodman stay in the shadows as they solve domestic and international crimes away from the eyes of the public.
Before CIA, Ellis was best known for his role as Lucifer Morningstar on the Fox/Netflix drama Lucifer, while Gehlfuss has starred in The Newsroom, Shameless, and Chicago Med (another Dick Wolf-created series).
Their CIA co-stars include Necar Zadegan and Natalee Linez. Zadegan, who plays Nikki Reynard, will guest star in the March 30 episode of FBI season 8, in which the Deputy Chief of Station is called in to help following a double homicide. The episode will mark Maggie Bell's return to the team after suffering a major loss.
Wolf created the hugely popular Law & Order and One Chicago franchises on NBC, and then went on to create the FBI crime procedural franchise for CBS. The first FBI series debuted in 2018 with star Missy Peregrym and is currently airing its eighth season.
Two years later, the first spinoff, FBI: Most Wanted, launched and aired for six seasons. FBI: International followed in its footsteps and aired for four seasons.
CIA, which currently has a 63% critic score and 51% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, marks the third FBI spinoff, with Wolf, Weiss, Ken Girotti, Paul Cabbad, Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen, Anastasia Puglisi, and Peter Jankowski serving as executive producers.
CIA airs Mondays at 10 p.m. EDT on CBS.
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