Seriously? OMG! WTF?

‘Tis the season to find out what you will be watching in the Fall. CBS got things started off today by announcing their schedule for the 2025-2026 season.

The FBI and NCIS series are switching days. So, FBI and CIA will air on Mondays, while NCIS, NCIS: Origins, and NCIS: Sydney are moving to Tuesdays. Wednesdays and Thursdays will stay the same. On Fridays, Sheriff Country and Fire Country will lead into Donnie Wahlberg’s Boston Blue.

All I have to say is that there are too many spinoffs! But it works well for them.

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Last week, there were rumors that CBS picked up Einstein to series for the 2025-2026 season. However, on Tuesday, it was revealed that they are holding the show, which stars Matthew Gray Gubler and Rosa Salazar.

I should stay starred Rosa Salazar because Deadline is reporting that the actress asked to be released from her contract due to the delay, and they agreed.

Personally, when I heard that CBS decided to go forward with the procedural, I thought it was going to be next season’s biggest new show because it comes from Monk’s executive producers, Andy Breckman and Randy Zisk, and stars Criminal Minds’ fan favorite Gubler. But now I am wondering if the show is in trouble because of the delay and Salazar’s departure,  which I don’t blame her for doing. I hope not because I still think it can be a hit. And you know what they say, “Good things come to those who wait.” So I will wait.

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Last week, there were rumors that CBS picked up Einstein starring Matthew Gray Gubler for the 2025-2026 season. However, now the rumor is that they are holding it until the 2026-2027 one.

Why? Deadline is not sure. They are wondering if there is a surprise series that is going to replace it. We will find out on May 7th when they announce their schedule for next season.

I think that the series would have been next season’s most-watched new show on CBS because of Gubler and the plot. That and the network picked up several spinoffs, including Boston Blue with Blue Bloods’ Donnie Wahlberg, FBI, CIA with Tom Ellis, and the Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country, and is that too much of a good thing?

Einstein is about the 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 her most puzzling cases.

Do you think CBS made the right choice?

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On Friday, Fire Country ended its season with three of its stars’ lives in danger. Now, we know two of the cast members are not coming back.

Billy Burke, who plays Battalion Chief Vince Leone, his wife, Sharon (Dianne Farr), and his dad, Walter (Jeff Fahey), were all in Walter’s assisted living building, which was engulfed in flames. Bode (Max Thieriot), who had just escaped, watched as the roof collapsed down on his family, leaving us to wonder who, if any of them, will be back in the Fall.

Deadline is reporting that Burke has fought his last fire, but the people at CBS will not confirm his departure.

However, they did confirm that Stephanie Arcila, who plays Gabriella, an EMT and firefighter,
will not be returning as a series regular. Executive Producer Tony Phelan explained, “It was really a decision that came out of the dynamic between Bode and Gabriela; we felt like those two characters needed a reset. We love Stephanie, and we are committed to saying that the Bode-Gabriela story does not end here, it goes on.

“We’re hoping that we can bring that character back, because we think that they have such great chemistry, and the audience is really invested in the two of them. But we felt, with everything that’s happening in the finale and moving on into the next season, that it was time for that character to discover what’s next for her.”

These departures make me nervous for season 4. Burke was a big part of what kept this grounded. I hope they didn’t make a mistake.

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Today was a good day for some at CBS and a bad day for others. That is because the network opted not to renew Popps’s House, which stars Damon Wayans and his son Damon Wayans, Jr., and The Summit.

However, they picked up FBI: CIA with Lucifer’s Tom Ellis, Einstein with Criminal Minds’ Matthew Gray Gubler, and DMV with Tim Meadows for next year.

Einstein is 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 her most puzzling cases.

DMV is ased on award winning author Katherine Heiny’s short story, 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.

That leaves The Equalizer and Queen Latifah waiting by the phone.

UPDATE: CBS is not moving forward with the spinoffs for The Neighborhood and The Equalizer.

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