For a second year in a row, CBS presented a full-season schedule for 2025-26. It features a lot of franchise-branded blocks, including two hours of FBI on Monday — the mothership, moving from Tuesday, joined by new offshoot CIA — a three-hour NCIS “Super Tuesday” and new spinoff Sheriff Country paired with Fire Country on Friday.
In addition to Sheriff Country and CIA, CBS’ 2025-26 schedule includes two other new scripted series, comedy DMV for fall and Yellowstone offshoot Y: Marshals, starring Luke Grimes, for midseason. It is one of two new CBS series produced by Yellowstone boss Taylor Sheridan from the Paramount side of the company, along with new music competition The Road, one of four new unscripted CBS shows on the 2025-26 schedule. Held for midseason is freshman drama Watson.
Here is CBS’ schedule, which CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach said emphasizes flow, compatibility and lead-ins, followed by analysis and description of the new series.
CBS FALL 2025-26 SCHEDULE
(New programs in BOLD UPPER CASE; all times ET/PT
MONDAY
8-8:30 PM: The Neighborhood
8:30-9 PM: DMV
9-10 PM: FBI
10-11 PM: CIA
TUESDAY
8-9 PM: NCIS
9-10 PM: NCIS: Origins
10-11 PM: NCIS: Sydney
WEDNESDAY
8-9:30 PM: Survivor
9:30-11 PM: The Amazing Race
(Starting in January)
8-9 PM: Hollywood Squares
9-10 PM: The Price Is Right at Night
10-11 PM: HARLAN COBEN’S FINAL TWIST
(Starting in spring)
8-9:30 PM: Survivor 50
9:30-10:30 PM: AMERICA’S CULINARY CUP
10:30-11 PM: Hollywood Squares
THURSDAY
8-8:30 PM: Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage
8:30-9 PM: Ghosts
9-10 PM: Matlock
10-11 PM: Elsbeth
FRIDAY
8-9 PM: SHERIFF COUNTRY
9-10 PM: Fire Country
10-11 PM: BOSTON BLUE
8-9 PM: CBS Encores
SATURDAY
8-9 PM: CBS Encores
9-10 PM: CBS Encores
10-11 PM: 48 Hours
SUNDAY
7-8 PM: 60 Minutes
8-9 PM: Tracker
9-10 PM: THE ROAD
10-11 PM: CBS Encores
(Starting in spring)
9-10 PM: Y: MARSHALS
10-11 PM: Watson
After a four-season run on Mondays to make room for CBS’ FBI Tuesday lineup, the network’s drama stalwart NCIS is back in the time slot it had aired for its first 18 seasons, Tuesday at 8 PM, anchoring a three-hour NCIS lineup that also includes prequel NCIS: Origins and Australian offshoot NCIS: Sydney.
Citing the success of the three-way NCIS crossover two years ago, Reisenbach said, “We’ve heard the audience, and we have stacked Tuesday,” setting up a likely new three-way crossover next season. The network calls the NCIS-themed night Super Tuesday.
NCIS is swapping places with FBI, which is moving to Monday at 9 PM, leading into new offshoot CIA.
“There are higher PUT levels for Monday, and we feel this is great counter-programming to sports and reality on the other networks,” Reisenbach said about the crime drama’s relocation.
Getting the hammock slot between The Neighborhood, back for its eighth and final season, and FBI is new comedy series DMV, making for a lineup that features DMV, FBI and CIA airing back-to-back.
“Marketing will have a lot of fun with it, and so will Stephen Colbert,” Reisenbach quipped.
No scheduling changes on Thursday. “We are not going to mess with perfection,” Reisenbach said about the returning lineup of Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, Ghosts, Matlock, which improved the 9 PM hour by 63% in viewers this season, and Elsbeth.
Returning Friday drama Fire Country will anchor the night flanked by spinoff Sheriff Country and Blue Bloods universe drama Boston Blue, starring Donnie Wahlberg, which is taking over its predecessor’s signature Friday 10 PM slot. All three series come from Jerry Bruckheimer Television (as is reality veteran The Amazing Race, back alongside Survivor on Wednesday in the fall.)
Survivor will mark its 50th season in the spring when it will be joined by new reality series America’s Culinary Cup, hosted by Top Chef‘s Padma Lakshmi, which Reisenbach called a “bigger, broader and fresher” take on the cooking competition genre. In an unusual for broadcast air pattern, America’s Culinary Cup will run both 90-minute and 60-minute episodes. The hourlong ones will be followed by Hollywood Squares to fill the last half-hour of primetime.
The Drew Barrymore-hosted game show revival’s main time slot is Wednesday 8 PM, bridging the two seasons of Survivor, where it will be followed by another Drew-fronted game show, The Price Is Right At Night with Drew Carey. Bookmarking the night at 10 PM will be a new true crime docuseries, Harlan Coben’s Final Twist.
Taylor Sheridan is staking claim on the Sunday 9 PM time period next season, with The Road and Y: Marshals alternating in it. They will follow CBS’ flagship scripted series Tracker, returning for its third season at 8 PM.
“Tonally we think they will go great together, and we will use football to promote them,” Reisenbach said about pairing Tracker and The Road in the fall. Airing behind Y: Marshals in midseason will be sophomore Watson.
NEW FALL 2025-26 DRAMA SERIES
CIA, starring Tom Ellis, is a one-hour crime drama centered on two unlikely partners – a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer (Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned and smart FBI agent who believes in the rule of law. When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strength. CIA is a universe expansion of the FBI series.
