CBS unveils a very, very tentative fall 2023 schedule
CBS has revealed the lineup of primetime shows it hopes to air this fall, but the ongoing writer's strike makes for a pretty major asterisk
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As CBS gears up to celebrate its fifteenth consecutive year as America’s most-watched primetime network, the state of affairs may seem like all upside. But as a tentative new fall 2023 lineup reveals, anything is subject to change, especially as the ongoing writers’ strike threatens to disrupt production on a myriad of shows.
Announced today under the watchful eye of CBS’ new entertainment president Amy Reisenbach, the planned fall 2023 schedule doesn’t do all that much deviating. Reality juggernauts Survivor and The Amazing Race will remain a network centerpiece with expanded 90-minute episodes and full command of Wednesday nights (the longer episode runtimes eliminate any need for a third hour of primetime programming).
However, plenty of CBS’ proposed scripted programs—including two new dramas, a Kathy Bates-led reboot of the classic procedural Matlock and The Good Wife spinoff Elsbeth— completely depend on how the strike plays out. If the Guild continues its collective action through the summer, none of the scheduled scripted series will be ready in time for a September premiere. Per Deadline, CBS is currently in the process of formulating a back-up plan relying on more reality TV programming and some “targeted repeats.”
Beyond 2023, CBS has also slated two new scripted series. Tracker, which stars Justin Hartley as a “lone-wolf survivalist” named Colter Shaw, is set to debut in the precious post-Super Bowl time slow on Sunday, February 11, 2024, and Poppa’s House, a new comedy starring Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. as father and adult son, is scheduled for a midseason premiere (there’s no official word yet on a time slot). Like Matlock, Elsbeth, and other returning scripted series, Poppa’s House and Tracker’s respected premieres now depend on the status of the strike, which in its second week is showing no signs of dissipating anytime soon.
See CBS’ full proposed fall schedule below:
MONDAY
8-8:30 pm — The Neighborhood
8:30-9 pm — Bob Hearts Abishola
9-10 pm — NCIS
10-11 pm — NCIS: Hawai’i
TUESDAY
8-9 pm — FBI
9-10 pm — FBI: International
10-11 pm — FBI Most Wanted
WEDNESDAY
8-9:30 pm — Survivor
9:30-11 pm — The Amazing Race
THURSDAY
8-8:30 pm — Young Sheldon
8:30-9 pm — Ghosts
9-10 pm — So Help Me Todd
10-11 pm — Elsbeth
FRIDAY
8-9 pm — S.W.A.T.
9-10 pm — Fire Country
10-11 pm — Blue Bloods
SATURDAY
8-10 pm — CBS Encores
10-11 pm — 48 Hours
SUNDAY
7-8 pm — 60 Minutes
8-9 pm — Matlock
9-10 pm — The Equalizer
10-11 pm — CSI: Vegas
21 Comments
I can’t wait to not watch any of this!
Well, they could always just air old Matlocks if they had to.
Just re-use the old scripts and update absolutely nothing.
I LOVED Carrie Preston as Elsbeth. I know she’s essentially quirk city, but I’m very quirk tolerant as evidenced by the fact I’m enjoying “Mrs. Davis”. Can’t wait to check that out. Hope they do her right.
Stand by for a few more FBI spin-offs.FBI: white collarFBI: Forensic AccountingFBI: Quantico janitorial staff
Just give the people what the want: “FBI: Deep State”
I have never seen The Good Wife but I’d have a hard time not seeing Carrie Preston as anyone other than her True Blood or Claws characters
She was fantastic on The Good Wife, but I can’t imagine sitting through an hour of that character, which was essentially a massive blast of quirkiness that Preston was talented enough to pull off in small doses, week after week. Especially if the Kings are writing the show.She was pretty great on Person of Interest too (and I’m sure everything else she’s ever done)
The image on the right really looks like the entrance to the Pawnee Parks Department
CBS, the most watched in a dying form of entertainment.
I’m really excited for 90 minute episodes of Survivor.
Holy shit. If you would have swapped “CSI:Vegas” with “Murder She Wrote” I would have accused you of plagiarizing a copy of TV Guide from 1989.
Why even call it Matlock?
Oh wow, so literally just using the name and nothing else. I wasn’t going to watch anyway, but still, WTF?
I know it’s on P+ but any word on “Evil”?
Will miss East New York. It had some pretty, pretty good moments.
Me too.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahtlock
Forgive me if someone else wrote this, but why don’t they *rerun old classics*! I mean much older series, such as Wally Cox’s “Mr. Peepers” and the original “The Goldbergs”. Add one season wonders such as “He and She” and “Frank’s Place.”
its all the same damn show reskinned and retitled constantly. Network TV has become just pure garbage. I hope the FBI stars show up and send Young Sheldon to some off shore extrajudicial holding facility