Today is Tax Day, and that is not the only bad thing that happened today. CBS announced its schedule for next season, and they are holding two of its best shows until midseason to make room for another NCIS. Because that is what we need, a fourth NCIS. Sorry, LL Cool J, I know the fans love this news, but I want my Matlock and Ghosts!!!
Mondays – Compelling drama block FBI and CIA moves up an hour to 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM, respectively, followed by HARLAN COBEN’S FINAL TWIST at 10:00 PM.
Tuesdays – The world’s #1 global franchise powers an all‑NCIS night from 8:00-11:00 PM, anchored by flagship NCIS (8:00 PM) and joined by the newest addition, NCIS: NEW YORK (9:00 PM), followed by NCIS: ORIGINS moving to 10:00 PM.
Wednesdays – Two reality television titans return with 90-minute episodes of SURVIVOR at 8:00 PM followed by THE AMAZING RACE at 9:30 PM.
Thursdays – Two new shows join the night. GEORGIE & MANDY’S FIRST MARRIAGE at 8:00 PM followed by new comedy ETERNALLY YOURS at 8:30 PM, then ELSBETH at 9:00 PM in a new time period and new series CUPERTINO at 10:00 PM.
Fridays – The winning action-packed lineup remains unchanged with three Jerry Bruckheimer Television‑produced dramas: SHERIFF COUNTRY at 8:00 PM, FIRE COUNTRY at 9:00 PM and BOSTON BLUE at 10:00 PM.
Sundays – CBS continues its winning Sunday lineup with 60 MINUTES at 7:00 PM, MARSHALS at 8:00 PM, TRACKER at 9:00 PM and drama encores at 10:00 PM during the fall.
In other news, even though Ghosts is being held until 2027, it will still get one-hour Halloween and Ghostmas special episodes to air this fall.
And there is one more announcement: Daytime Drama Beyond the Gates was picked up for two more seasons. Long live Soap Operas!!!
It is rumored that CBS parted ways with Stephen Colbert at the urging of donald trump. And with that, the network decided to end doing late night original programming, something they started in 1993 with David Letterman.
So what will be filling The Late Show’s timeslot? They will air a two-hour block of Byron Allen shows, Comics Unleashed and Funny You Should Ask.
Comics Unleashed has been used as filler at 12:35a between the end of The Late Late Show with James Corden and the start of After Midnight, and then it returned when that comedienne’s name I don’t remember left.
Today, CBS announced that Comics Unleashed will move to 11:35p and 12:05a, and then Funny You Should Ask will follow at 12:35a and 1:05a.
So get ready for lots of PSA and religious ads during that two-hour block, because who is going to want to advertise during those two shows? I also expect that the 11p local news will suffer because people used to tune into watch the news before Colbert.
Yes, it is cheaper to air this. But in the long run, I think it will be more expensive.
Tonight at 10p on CBS, Boston Blue celebrates St. Patrick’s Day. At least they are hoping to.
The episode starts off with Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green) showing up at a scene. When she gets there, she hears shots being fired. The person who called is dead, and now she needs to find out why.
Her, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), and Sara (Maggie Lawson) learn that the victim always wanted to be a cop, and he had something to share. What is it? He found out that there is a threat to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. However, he didn’t say what it was before he died.
Therefore, the clock is ticking, and they need to find out what the threat is before there is another Boston Marathon situation. Can they do it?
They need to do it because Danny and his son, Sean (Mika Amonsen), want to celebrate their first St. Patty’s Day in Boston, a day the Silvers hate because of all the non-Bostonians who come to celebrate and ruin their city.
Wahlberg says that is the one thing that Boston does better than NYC. As a Bronx girl who went to NYC’s parade for the holiday, he is wrong.
Back to Boston Blue. The police procedural keeps proving that it is a worthy spinoff from Blue Bloods. It was the push the legacy needed.
The Yellowstone universe expanded from Paramount and Paramount+ to CBS with Marshals, and the show is already a huge hit after just two episodes. Therefore, it makes sense that CBS picked it up for a second season after just two airings.
The first episode was watched by 20.6 million viewers across TV and streaming after seven days, making it the most-watched series premiere without a football lead-in since Young Sheldon in 2017. Not only that, it is the streamer’s most-streamed episode to date.
“MARSHALS delivered a breakout performance, capturing a massive audience across platforms and quickly establishing itself as one of TV’s most powerful new series,” said Amy Reisenbach, president, CBS Entertainment. “The overwhelming viewer response speaks to the strength of the Yellowstone world, the bold character driven storytelling from the creative team and the dynamic cast performances led by Luke Grimes.”
Marshals stars Luke Grimes reprising his role as Kayce Dutton as he joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana.
Marshals airs Sundays at 8p, and streams on Paramount+ the next day.
David Del Rio was fired from Matlock after an investigation over a sexual assault allegation brought on by his co-star, Leah Lewis, in October.
Since they had already filmed half of season 2 and were going on a filming hiatus around the same time, the show had to figure out how to move forward without him.
So, in the second-to-last episode before the winter break, they had his character depart the show after his girlfriend had a miscarriage.
That was then. The legal drama returns on February 26th, and there will be three new faces in the midseason premiere. They are Sarah Wright Olsen, Edwin Hodge, and Henry Haber.
Today, Lewis shared a photo of her new male co-stars with Kathy Bates and Skye P. Marshall, and they look like they already fit in. Granted, Hodge has an advantage because he is married to Marshall in real life.
According to TVLine, this is a description of the three new characters: “Wright Olsen plays Gwen, an efficiency expert analyzing the firm. Haber plays Hunter, a younger associate from the floater pool who is a total bro. Hodge plays Langston, ‘the kind of guy who can show up late, knowing he’ll charm everyone into forgetting about it as soon as he arrives. A double PhD in neuroscience and philosophy, he is a deep thinker… and a smooth talker.'”
Will they be able to smooth-talk fans into liking them? We shall find out when the series returns later this month.
Del Rio asked CBS for another investigation into the allegations, and he was granted one by the network. The investigation has reportedly been concluded recently, but the outcome has not been revealed.
