CBS Announces ‘Blood & Treasure,’ ‘Elementary’ and ‘Instinct’ Summer Premiere Dates

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Matt Barr, Sofia Pernas and James Callis in ‘Blood & Treasure’ (Photo: Jonathan Wenk © 2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

CBS has set its summer primetime lineup premiere dates for returning shows Elementary and Instinct, as well as newcomer Blood & Treasure. The network confirmed the seventh and final season of Elementary starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu will debut on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT. The second season of Instinct with Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic will premiere on Sunday, June 16th at 9pm ET/PT.

The action adventure drama Blood & Treasure bows on Tuesday, May 21st with a two-hour premiere airing at 9pm ET/PT. The series will kick off immediately following the season finale of NCIS. CBS also announced the season finale of NCIS: New Orleans will move up a week to May 14th at 10pm ET/PT. Blood & Elementary will slip into its regular time slot of Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT on May 28th.

In addition, CBS released details on the upcoming seasons of the three summer series:

Elementary – In season seven, Holmes (Miller) and Watson’s (Liu) new careers as consultants for Scotland Yard are disrupted by news that a member of their inner circle has been gravely wounded in the United States. As Holmes’ stateside legal trouble – the result of a confession to a murder he didn’t commit – threatens to keep them from returning to New York, their greatest foe to date, tech billionaire Odin Reichenbach (James Frain), waits on the horizon to test their limits.


The final season cast also includes Aidan Quinn and Jon Michael Hill. Rob Doherty, Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman, Jason Tracey, Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Robert Goodman executive produce.

Instinct – In season two, NYPD consultant Dylan Reinhart (Cumming) is reinstated after being put on leave, just in time to join his partner, NYPD detective Lizzie Needham (Novakovic), on their new case, the “Sleeping Beauty Killer.”

Season two of the series based on the novel by James Patterson also features Daniel Ings, Naveen Andrews and Sharon Leal. Cumming, Patterson, Michael Rauch, Marc Webb, Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin, Bill Robinson, and Leopoldo Gout are the executive producers.

Blood & Treasure – The serialized drama stars Matt Barr and Sofia Pernas as a brilliant antiquities expert and a cunning art thief, respectively, who team up to catch a ruthless terrorist who funds his attacks through stolen treasure. As they crisscross the globe hunting their target, they unexpectedly find themselves at the center of a 2,000-year-old battle for the cradle of civilization.

Joining Barr and Pernas in season one are Michael James Shaw, Katia Winter, James Callis, Oded Fehr, Alicia Coppola, and Mark Gagliardi. Blood & Treasure is executive produced by Matthew Federman, Stephen Scaia, Taylor Elmore, Ben Silverman, Marc Webb, Mark Vlasic, and Howard T. Owens.