Does CBS Have Too Many Shows for Next Season? Draft Your Dream Fall Schedule!
America’s Most-Watched Network is looking more and more like America’s most-crowded network. Does CBS have enough time slots to accommodate its programming for the 2024-25 TV season?
CBS currently airs 17 scripted series per week — 13 hour-long dramas and four half-hour comedies. That’s a combined 15 hours of scripted programming.
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Heading into the 2024-25 season, nine 10 hour-long dramas (Blue Bloods, Elsbeth, FBI, FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, Fire Country, NCIS, NCIS: Sydney, S.W.A.T. and Tracker) and two half-hour comedies (Ghosts and The Neighborhood) are already set to return.
That’s 11 (out of 15) fall programming hours potentially spoken for….
What’s more, CBS has also ordered three new dramas — Matlock (led by Kathy Bates), NCIS: Origins (a Young Gibbs-centric prequel narrated by Mark Harmon) and Watson (a medical procedural starring Morris Chestnut as Sherlock Holmes’ right-hand man) — and two new comedies — Poppa’s House (featuring Damon Wayans Sr. and Jr.) and Untitled Young Sheldon Spinoff (with Montana Jordan and Emily Osment reprising their fan-favorite roles as Georgie and Mandy) — for the 2024-25 season.
Combined with the renewed/returning programs, all 15 fall programming hours are potentially spoken for….
Lest we forget, CBS has four series — CSI: Vegas, The Equalizer, NCIS: Hawai’i and So Help Me Todd — that have yet to be renewed but could return, plus an Untitled Fire Country Spinoff (starring Morena Baccarin as Sheriff Mickey Fox) awaiting a formal series order. And we assume the network will stick with its all-reality Wednesday lineup (consisting of Survivor and The Amazing Race).
How, exactly, is CBS supposed to schedule it all? That’s where you come in!
TVLine wants you to channel your inner network executive and come up with a primetime lineup for CBS’ 2024-25 season. Lay out your full fall schedule in Comments, and also tell us what they’ll hold for midseason. Review all new and returning series below, then have at it!
CBS RETURNING SHOWS
Blue Bloods (final eight episodes confirmed for fall)
Elsbeth
FBI
FBI: International
FBI: Most Wanted
Fire Country
Ghosts
NCIS
NCIS: Sydney
The Neighborhood
S.W.A.T.
Tracker
CBS ‘BUBBLE’ SHOWS (AS OF APRIL 18)
CSI: Vegas
The Equalizer
NCIS: Hawai’i
So Help Me Todd
NEW CBS SHOWS
Matlock
NCIS: Origins
Poppa’s House
Watson
Untitled Young Sheldon spinoff
POTENTIALLY NEW NEXT SEASON
Untitled Fire Country spinoff (not yet ordered)
CURRENT CBS SCHEDULE
Grey = vacant time slot
Red = on the bubble/potentially vacant time slot
SUNDAY
7 pm 60 Minutes
8 pm The Equalizer
9 pm Tracker
10 pm CSI: Vegas
MONDAY
8 pm The Neighborhood
8:30 pm Bob Hearts Abishola
9 pm NCIS
10 pm NCIS: Hawai’i
TUESDAY
8 pm FBI
9 pm FBI: International
10 pm FBI: Most Wanted
WEDNESDAY
8 pm Survivor
9:30 pm The Amazing Race
THURSDAY
8 pm Young Sheldon
8:30 pm Ghosts
9 pm So Help Me Todd
10 pm Elsbeth
FRIDAY
8 pm S.W.A.T.
9 pm Fire Country
10 pm Blue Bloods
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