‘Watson’ Renewed for Season 2 — Which 2 CBS Shows Are Still up in the Air?
Dr. John Watson will have more medical mysteries to solve: The Morris Chestnut-led drama is coming back.
CBS has renewed Watson for Season 2, to air in the 2025-2026 season. This news comes seven episodes into the first season.
The renewal also brings the number of shows on CBS’ schedule for next season to 18 already. The returning shows are: The Amazing Race, Elsbeth, FBI, Fire Country, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, Ghosts, Hollywood Squares, Matlock, NCIS, NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Sydney, The Neighborhood (for its final season), Survivor, and Tracker. (FBI and Ghosts have both been picked up for the 2026-2027 season as well.) New shows include: Blue Bloods spinoff Boston Blue (working title), Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country, and singing competition The Road.
FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, and S.W.A.T. will all be ending with their current seasons. That leaves the fates of The Equalizer and Poppa’s House (which received a full-season order at the same time as NCIS: Origins in November 2024) still up in the air.
In addition to Chestnut, Watson stars Eve Harlow (as Ingrid), Peter Mark Kendall (as Adam and Stephens), Inga Schlingmann (as Sasha), Ritchie Coster (as Shinwell), and Rochelle Aytes (as Mary). Randall Park plays Moriarty, and his casting was kept a surprise until the premiere aired.
Watson picks up six months after the death of John’s friend and amateur sleuth Sherlock Holmes (whose voice – Matt Berry — he has since hallucinated) at Reichenbach Falls with Moriarty. The villain was since revealed to have survived and has unwillingly enlisted Shinwell to do his bidding. As head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders, Watson works with a team of fellows. But he and Moriarty have their own chapter of a story to write.
Watson averages 6.79 million viewers each week, according to Nielsen season-to-date most current data. The premiere, which aired on January 26 after the AFC Championship game, has been seen by 18.7 million multi-platform viewers in live plus 35 days of viewing, making it CBS’ most-watched scripted episode of the 2024-25 season. In streaming alone, the premiere is the most-streamed scripted episode of all CBS Original series this season on Paramount+ with 7 million streaming viewers.
What are you hoping to see in Season 2? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Renew Equalizer!
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CBS should have never cancelled FBI International or Most wanted. CBS also cancelled Blue Bloods, NCIS Hawaii, shows with good ratings. Why get hooked on a show and take a chance that CBS will cancel it anyway.
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Renew Blue Bloods. It was a good solid show. And relevant.
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The majority of the cast wanted to end the series, it wasn't exclusively the network decision
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It's still a darn shame that FBI: International and FBI: Most wanted were the BEST FBI shows and they were cancelled. The same with NCIS!! NCIS is great and so was NCIS: Hawaii! That was cancelled!!!! They kept NCIS: Sydney which is just ok!
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I enjoy NCIS: Sydney and enjoyed NCIS: Hawaii with the exception of the Lucy Tara character! Yasmine Al-Bustam is a horrible actress and her “storyline” with the Kate character was overdone and ridiculous! She was basically a “cringe” character with no talent!
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I totally despise Elsbeth and anything NCIS now. I enjoyed NCIS(mothership) until Harmon quit. I don't care for Clark in the role of head agent. Then sucking CBS cancelled NCIS LA and Hawaii so I quit NCIS anything. CBS still sucking with the cancellations of the two FBI's, Blue Bloods and SWAT. If they cancel Equalizer, Poppas House and Fire Country I will no longer watch anything on CBS. They cancelled Blue Bloods due to production costs( even after the cast took pay cuts to help) yet they are doing Boston Blue which will cost more for start up and to keep in Boston due to higher cost. Am I the only one who sees the nonsense of this?
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Pappas house, Elsbeth, and Fire Country could/should be gone before the FBI's and Swat as far as we are concerned!
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What is it with the shows these days that the network will find a show that works and then copy it over and over. Enough with the miracle cure medical shows.
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Would rather watch reruns of House. It is more entertaining. I love Morris Chestnut and was hopeful but can't get into this show.
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CBS u suck ur keeping dumb shows like Elsbeth, ghost, the marriage show over shows that people enjoy like the FBI series the whole thing and SWAT or now equalizer is on the possible chopping block get with the program keep shows that have made past 1 or more seasons for a reason.
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Poppa's House will not make the cut, PERIOD! 🤷🏾♂
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I LOVE Watson! Best new show with great acting. Chestnut is a fantastic lead!
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SWAT is a wonderful show! It shows us exactly what SWAT people do to save us!!
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AGREED 👍
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I was "shocked" when I saw that FBI:Most Wanted,FBI:International being cancelled. I never watched Georgie's First Marriage even though I was a big fan of The Big Bang Theory. I like NCIS, but never was interested in NCIS: Origins. Can't the network come up with original shows instead of spin-offs? On top of it, what is the use of watching these shows when every other week there seem to be a break for one or two weeks? TV seasons used to contain more episodes, now there are 10 episode seasons, 16 episode seasons. I finally cut the cord and went to streaming only. I have found the older shows are much more entertaining than the current ones, the storylines are so much better, and I can stream anytime when I felt like watching a specific show.
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I SO agree about how frustrating the breaks are in scheduling shows, when you need a good laugh you should probably watch georgies first marriage, don't fret too many tho about FBI shows, trust me they will come again with new actors and city of origin. At least not the networks give us some warning to what shows are being dropped, so fans can protest and request that they re consider. It's all business to them. I get frustrated when a show is doing good and is popular but Middle in ratings so they just cancel it.
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One "problem" (for the numbers crunchers who rule the roost) is: Good shows that are given a decent chance can indeed end up with a solid base of really dedicated fans. But then the show's longevity means a good chunk of the fan base eventually ages out of that key 18-49 (& much earlier, the coveted 18-34) demographic that advertisers are willing, even eager, to pay the most for. I had to learn to live with the fact that no one gives a fig about me as a viewer anymore. But I really do feel for people who are limited to broadcast shows because they can't afford (or sometimes even access at-all decent) cable or satellite, to say nothing of increasingly expensive streaming (which hits some buyers with excessive internet speed/download costs, too). It's just another manifestation of the greed that morphed the news shows from being a public service into having to be profit centers. * Sigh *
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I tried to watch Watson but after 3 episodes, I realized this was not a show I liked! I still do not understand why FBI International and FBI Most Wanted were cancelled! CBS needs to reconsider their decision! And, The Equalizer should be renewed also. CBS should reconsider renewing Watson and renew the 2 FBIs!
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Don't know if you remember "house" from many years back but watson is almost a remake of that show, same theme updated with a black actor as main character
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I'm not married to this show first, because the story is so far afield from the original. I AM wed to the Benedict Cumberbatch/Masterpiece version particularly - and that is closer to the original fiction. I think the writing is the problem in that a lot more mystery seems to surround the 'team' than is contained in the story. I'm sorry, please don't beat me up.
I too lament the loss of FBI Most Wanted.
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I agree! Can't wait for season 2!
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House was the best!!! I was the same with Watson but my sister said it was really good so I watch a few episodes and it's really really good.
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I was the same way with Watson but I stuck it out a couple more episodes and it's a very good series. Give it a few more episodes.
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Yeah like Supernatural
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I miss So Help Me Todd.
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I know no one who watch Ghosts. I know tons who watched Blue Bloods. I can't understand CBS programmers. I know it's all about the $$$ but shouldn't loyalty to folks who make these shows popular count for something? In my opinion Watson is only doing well because it follows Tracker and is followed by the Equalizer. I love Morris Chestnut but the premise of this show doesn't make sense. We have too many medical shows as is. Why not cancel long running shows like NCIS and Grey's Anatomy?
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