CBS announced not only its fall schedule, but a full lineup for the 2024-2025 broadcast season at a Los Angeles press briefing on Thursday.
As “Young Sheldon” is currently wrapping up its final season on Thursdays at 8 p.m., a headline of the slate is spinoff series “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” taking over that spot, leading into “Ghosts” at 8:30 p.m. Additionally, “Tracker” — not only the No. 1 new series of the 2023-2024 season, but the most-watched series overall — is getting an earlier position, moving from Sundays at 9 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Several CBS traditions remain intact. Tuesdays remain “FBI” night with the flagship series airing at 8 p.m. followed by “FBI: International” at 9 p.m. and “FBI: Most Wanted” at 10 p.m. On Mondays, “NCIS” holds onto its 9 p.m. timeslot, and after the cancellation of “NCIS: Hawai’i,” it’s 9:30 p.m. position will be taken over by the franchise’s newest iteration, “NCIS: Origins.”
The Wednesday schedule continues to be dominated by unscripted programming but will vary throughout the season, with a separate January lineup to bridge the gap between fall and spring seasons. In both the fall and the spring, “Survivor” will continue airing 90-minute episodes beginning at 8 p.m. Though “The Amazing Race” typically runs directly afterward, it will skip the fall and return for a new season at 9:30 in the spring. In the fall, the new competition series “The Summit” will take its place.
In between those two segments of the schedule, Wednesdays in January will open with “The Price Is Right at Night” at 8 p.m. “Raid the Cage” will air at 9 p.m., with a newly ordered reboot of the game show “Hollywood Squares” hosted by Drew Barrymore at 10 p.m.
Other new shows on the CBS lineup include are the Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. comedy “Poppa’s House” on Mondays at 8 p.m., the “Matlock” reboot on Thursdays at 9 p.m. and Morris Chestnut medical drama “Watson” on Sundays at 10 p.m.
Like Wednesdays, Fridays differ between fall and spring, driven by the recently announced to decision to air the final season of “Blue Bloods” in two parts, wrapping up before the year’s end. In the fall, “S.W.A.T.” will return for its eighth season at 8 p.m. followed by “Fire Country” at 9 p.m. and “Blue Bloods” at 9 p.m. The spring will instead be opened by “NCIS: Sydney,” with “Fire Country” remaining at 9 p.m. and “S.W.A.T.” moving to 10 p.m.
