CBS Fall 2026 Schedule: ‘Marshals’ Moving to Fall, Plus ‘FBI’ & ‘Elsbeth’ Changes
What To Know
- CBS announced its Fall 2026 schedule, with Marshals moving to Sundays, Elsbeth shifting to a new time slot, and Ghosts and Matlock moving to midseason.
- The lineup features new shows, including NCIS: New York starring LL Cool J and the detective drama Flint in development.
- Get a full breakdown of the CBS Fall 2026 schedule.
It’s officially time to begin looking ahead to the 2026-2027 season. CBS is the first broadcast network to announce its lineup for the fall (and beyond), ahead of its season finales airing.
The big changes: Ghosts, Matlock, and NCIS: Sydney are moving to midseason, Elsbeth is moving up an hour, Marshals is getting bumped up to the fall, and there’s a new NCIS spinoff, NCIS: New York, premiering this fall starring LL Cool J and Scott Caan. The network has also announced that Flint, a new detective drama starring Friends‘ Matt LeBlanc, is in development for the 2027-2028 season.
Eternally Yours, a new vampire comedy from Ghosts creators Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, is taking Ghosts‘ place on Thursday nights this fall. Elsbeth is moving into Matlock‘s time, 9/8c. Elsbeth will be followed by a new drama called Cupertino, made by Elsbeth and The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King and starring Mike Colter and Rachel Keller. Colter previously starred in Evil, made by the Kings. The new Matthew Gray Gubler and Melissa Fumero dramedy Einstein will get a midseason premiere.
“CBS broadcasts the most-watched entertainment shows in the country and continues to launch more every season,” said Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment. “We’ll build on that this fall by expanding the powerful NCIS franchise, introducing a new original drama from the creators of The Good Wife and Elsbeth, and a new comedy from the acclaimed duo behind Ghosts. This all adds up to another schedule built for launching new hits, scaling audiences, and growing content value.”
Check out the CBS fall 2026 schedule below. Keep an eye out for airtime changes for each show, as many of them are moving times, except for the Friday schedule with Sheriff Country, Fire Country, and Boston Blue.
Mondays
8:00 p.m.: FBI
9:00 p.m.: CIA
10:00 p.m.: Harlan Coben’s Final Twist
Tuesdays
8:00 p.m.: NCIS
9:00 p.m.: NCIS: New York
10:00 p.m.: NCIS: Origins
Wednesdays
8:00 p.m.: Survivor
9:30 p.m.: The Amazing Race
Thursdays
8:00 p.m.: Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage
8:30 p.m.: Eternally Yours
9:00 p.m.: Elsbeth
10:00 p.m.: Cupertino
Cupertino (Elizabeth Fisher / CBS)
Fridays
8:00 p.m.: Sheriff Country
9:00 p.m.: Fire Country
10:00 p.m.: Boston Blue
Sundays
7:00 p.m.: 60 Minutes
8:00 p.m.: Marshals
9:00 p.m.: Tracker
10:00 p.m.: Drama encores
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Glad I have better things to do on Wednesdays. This 'reality' TV is a mystery to me. I want to be entertained and watching a bunch of narcissistic people bully their way to winning...what do they win...bragging rights?? No thank you!!
Give me a good mystery to solve, a heart warming or funny story or an escape from reality, I would rather watch that.
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M
Agree 💯!! Sick of all these weird reality shows especially freaking Survivor!
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B
AMEN!!!!!
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If CBS would quit scheduling so many sports shows on Sunday night there would not be a problem with scheduling the series program(s). Let CBS get another channel for sports ONLY so the sports lovers can watch til their hearts content and not tick off the people that watch the serial programs. I do not watch any sports and am tired of them screwing up my program viewing.
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C
I agree. The tv shows are all ajoke. Why don’t you people live the good shows alone
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S
I don't watch ANY reality TV. On Wednesdays I have been watching Chicago Med and Chicago PD on NBC.
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N
I hate sports and hate it when we miss out on our movies. Why do we have to pay for tv and lose our shows. That is why they have sport channels!!!
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J
What happened to FBI franchise they should have left that alone. But here we go with ncis franchise. And anything on Sunday night is doomed because of football. That's what happened to NCIS nola. This is not to be cbs it use to be
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M
Agree! I liked FBI most wanted! CIA doesn't even compare!
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C
I watch Elsbeth at 10 ,pm on Thursday I like that time slot & love the show because I watch Georgie & Maddy at 8 & Ghost at 8:30 then watch Abc 911 Nashville before Elsbeth at 10 pm on CBS ..Now it is saying Elsbeth will be at 9 pm then I can't watch it now..Why can't they just leave it were it's at?? Upset now. 🙁
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M
Agree. I will miss Ghosts.
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K
It's depressing to only see two half-hour comedies on the fall schedule. And I guess CBS leadership really looked at DMV and Watson and said, "Nah, let's renew Harlan Coben instead." Seriously, did anyone watch Harlan Coben's Final Twist?
Reruns at 10 on Sundays? That's just pouring lemon juice onto Watson's cut - they definitely could have brought it back if they really wanted to.
I'll conclude with a pitch that CBS could have done where they would have had an entire night of comedy on Thursday. Start by canceling Harlan Coben and move Cupertino to Mondays at 10. Here's how the schedule would look: for the 8PM hour, keep as is with Georgie & Mandy along with Eternally Yours; for 9PM, have The Tillbrooks (which CBS passed on but could have saved) and DMV then close out the night by keeping Elsbeth where it's been - the network is trying to make us believe it's an outright comedy anyway.
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N
I watch Harlan Coben. I am a crine, mystery, and horror.
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J
It’s not life altering use your dvr to record what you can’t watch live
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C
Drama encores on Sunday when they have plenty of shows to put on. Bad idea CBS.
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They stopped scheduling 10 pm shows on CBS on Sunday because sports would frequently run over and push all the shows to later start times. The 10 pm shows would be starting nearer to 11 pm most weeks.
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Good idea since some sports stuff ALWAYS screws up Marshals a n d Tracker ALL the time
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The drama encores is because of the Sunday late afternoon NFL games that pushes back the start time of the Sunday night lineup
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M
Most people enjoy Marshals on Sunday night to relax and watch before bedtime!
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I agree. It's especially frustrating when it messes up my DVR recordings of the Sunday night shows.
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D
Ghosts should stay where it is and CBS should not make its fans wait until midseason for it to return.
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C
Only day worth watching is Friday night until Boston Blue and Matlock returns.
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Where is Watson?? Bring another season of Watson!! Love it like I did House!!!
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CBS cancelled Watson about a month ago.
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M
Moving Ghosts out is a very BAD decision. NBC will dominate Thursdays.
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Ghosts is mid season now?? The whole fam likes that show. My son just asked when the new episodes start.
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Seems Wednesday night will be a trash night on the former tiffany network. What a shame.
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I don't care what they do with Elspeth I stopped watching it when they brought in the gay characters and let go that great female cop. It was excellent BEFORE all that change.
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K
Art,
Elsbeth has no character part of the main cast who is gay let alone more than one. Teddy, Elsbeth's son, is but he literally only appears in a third of the episodes. I understand not watching anymore because Kaya isn't there but "the gay characters" doesn't add up and "change" is what allows any show to grow.
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I liked her too! 👍
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