CBS’s 2025-2026 primetime lineup will look surprisingly different from the 2024-2025 version, considering that the network is bringing back l8 shows. The network’s primetime schedule will include one new comedy, four new dramas, and three unscripted series, along with its returning fare.
CBS’s schedule announcement revealed they’ve greenlit a Yellowstone spinoff starring Luke Grimes, reprising his role as Kayce Dutton. For now the drama is called Y: Marshals and is expected to premiere during the 2025-2026 midseason. The network’s also ordered a true crime series based on Harlan Coben’s Final Twist for midseason.
New fall dramas include the Blue Bloods spinoff Boston Blue, the Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country, and CIA, a universe expansion of FBI. DMV, the only new comedy, is described as a workplace comedy set at, obviously, the Department of Motor Vehicles. Taylor Sheridan, Blake Shelton, and Keith Urban’s The Road singing competition series also debuts this coming primetime season.
“Our 2025-2026 primetime schedule boasts a star-studded lineup of returning hit shows and new, exciting series from top creators and producers,” said Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment. “Coming off another winning season enabled us to make bold scheduling moves and fortify our strong lineup with thematically compatible programs every night of the week for strong viewer flow and to serve as a powerful launchpad for the new shows. Additionally, we’re appreciative of our loyal audiences who regularly watch on CBS and Paramount+ and to our creative partners who continue to deliver outstanding content.”
CBS’s Fall 2025 Primetime Lineup:
• Mondays – The Neighborhood, DMV, FBI and CIA
• Tuesdays – All NCIS night, taking over for the 2024-2025 FBI block
• Wednesdays – Survivor and The Amazing Race. The Wednesday midseason lineup includes Harlan Coben’s Final Twist, Padma Lakshmi’s America’s Culinary Cup, Survivor season 50, Hollywood Squares, and The Price is Right at Night
• Thursdays – Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage, Ghosts, Matlock, and Elsbeth
• Fridays – Sheriff Country, Fire Country, and Boston Blue
• Sundays – Tracker and The Road. Y: Marshals and Watson join Tracker at midseason
THE ROAD (Sundays, 9:00-10:00 PM) – The Road offers viewers a backstage pass into the gritty and unforgiving life of a touring artist. With exclusive access to behind-the-scenes workings of the music industry, viewers will see what happens when some of the best up-and-coming performers pile into a tour bus and tackle a grueling schedule in pursuit of their dreams.
From executive producers Taylor Sheridan, Blake Shelton, David C. Glasser, Lee Metzger and Keith Urban, the series trails GRAMMY Award winner Urban on his journey to discover the next big artist alongside GRAMMY Award winner Gretchen Wilson, who acts as the “tour manager.” Singers will join the headliner on tour, performing as opening acts in venues across the country. They will compete to win over local fanbases to secure a spot in the next city and remain on the tour.
DMV (Mondays, 8:30-9:00 PM) – DMV, based on award-winning author Katherine Heiny’s short story, is a single-camera workplace comedy set at the place everyone dreads going most: the DMV. Our quirky and lovable characters are making minimum wage, doing a thankless job where customers are annoyed before they even walk in the door. Good thing they have each other.
DMV stars Harriet Dyer, Tim Meadows, Tony Cavalero, Molly Kearney, Gigi Zumbado and Alex Tarrant.
CIA (Mondays, 10:00-11:00 PM) – CIA, starring Tom Ellis, is a one-hour crime drama centered on two unlikely partners—a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer (Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned, and smart FBI agent who believes in the rule of law. When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strength.
SHERIFF COUNTRY (Fridays, 8:00-9:00 PM) – SHERIFF COUNTRY stars Morena Baccarin as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Fire Country‘s Diane Farr). She investigates criminal activity while she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater, contending with her ex-con father, Wes (W. Earl Brown), who is an off-the-grid marijuana grower, and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.
SHERIFF COUNTRY stars Morena Baccarin, W. Earl Brown, Matt Lauria, Christopher Gorham and Michele Weaver.
BOSTON BLUE (Fridays, 10:00-11:00 PM) – BOSTON BLUE stars Donnie Wahlberg as he reprises his role as NYPD officer Danny Reagan in a universe expansion of the long-running top drama BLUE BLOODS. In the new drama, Reagan takes a position with Boston PD. Once in Boston, he is paired with detective Lena Peters (Sonequa Martin-Green), the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family.
Y: MARSHALS (Working Title) (Premieres Sundays, Midseason, 9:00-10:00 PM) –
Y: MARSHALS (working title) stars Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton. With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Dutton joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence.
HARLAN COBEN’S FINAL TWIST (Wednesdays, Midseason 10:00-11:00 PM, Between Fall and Spring Editions of SURVIVOR) – HARLAN COBEN’S FINAL TWIST brings the world’s best-selling mystery author into the true-crime television genre for the first time. With over 90 million books sold globally and scripted series, Harlan Coben is known for his twisting narratives and intricate plots. In each one-hour episode, Harlan will guide audiences through gripping tales of murder, high-profile crimes, and life-altering surprises, each meticulously unraveled to reveal hidden truths, deceptions, and lies. With exclusive interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, the series will provide an in-depth look at stories where nothing is as it seems.
AMERICA’S CULINARY CUP (Wednesdays, in Spring after SURVIVOR, 9:30-10:30 PM) – AMERICA’S CULINARY CUP, from Emmy-nominated food expert Padma Lakshmi is a new cooking competition series. Lakshmi serves as creator and host of this new culinary showdown featuring a cast of the nation’s most decorated chefs as they embark on a one-of-a-kind, high-stakes competition designed to challenge their creativity, endurance, presentation, leadership, and more.
EINSTEIN (for the 2026-2027 season) – EINSTEIN is a drama with comedic undertones starring Matthew Gray Gubler as Lew Einstein. Brilliant but directionless, the great-grandson of Albert Einstein spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor until his bad boy antics land him in trouble with the law and he is pressed into service helping a local police detective solve the most puzzling cases.
CUPERTINO (Writers Room for 12 episodes, 2026-2027 season) – CUPERTINO is a David vs. Goliath legal show set in Silicon Valley. The series is executive produced by Emmy Award-winning producers Robert and Michelle King and Liz Glotzer for King Size Productions and CBS Studios.
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