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!!!
CBS picked up ten of their shows for next season today, but Watson and DMZ were not two of them.
What did they pick up? Tracker, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, Matlock, Elsbeth, Fire Country, NCIS, NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Sydney, Survivor, and The Amazing Race. They join the series that were already picked up for the 2026=2027 season: Boston Blue, Sheriff Country, FBI, Ghosts, and two new series, Cupertino and Einstein.
CBS also had not made a decision on the upcoming scripted originals, CIA and Marshalls, and Hollywood Squares and The Road.
With all of that, there is not a lot of room for anything else, like a potential Tracker or Ghosts spinoff.
Before kids were dressing up as Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven from Stranger Things for Halloween, she was dressing up as Harry Potter to go trick-or-treating on NCIS. How cute was the 10-year-old in that 2014 episode?
Tony (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva (Cote de Pablo) are NCIS’s most famous couple, even though both have not been regulars on the series for a long time. Therefore, Paramount+ decided to give them a series where they investigated crimes in Europe.
With all of that going on, it sounds like it will be a hit. Well, NCIS: Tony &Zi wasn’t. So, today, comes news that the show was cancelled after just one season.
“We feel incredibly lucky to have had the chance to play these characters once again and to tell the next chapter of Tony and Ziva’s story,” Weatherly and de Pablo said in a statement. “Our deepest thanks go to our extraordinary cast, crew, writers, directors, and producers, and to our partners at CBS Studios and Paramount+ who helped make this dream a reality. But most of all, we want to thank the fans around the world who joined us on this adventure and finally got to see Tony and Ziva find their happily ever after.”
Earlier this week, CBS announced that Mark Harmon will reprise his role as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS: Origins. Today, they shared a photo of him dressed up as the character he played for over 18 years, and I can’t believe we have not seen him like that for four years.
So what would bring Harmon out of on-camera retirement (he is the narrator on the prequel)? His return is for a crossover episode between NCIS: Origins and NCIS: OG.
When a naval officer mysteriously dies in the ‘90s, Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and the team travel to the small dust-blown town of Serenity, Calif., where they encounter secret-harboring residents, an uncooperative sheriff and an investigation that will reverberate for decades.
