Matthew Grey Gubler followers must wait longer for Prison Minds star’s return to CBS. His new comedic drama procedural Einstein, initially picked as much as collection final week for the 2025-26 season, is now being held for 2026-27.
The transfer is just not totally stunning. Beneath the community’s longterm improvement technique, CBS final Might picked up Hearth Nation spinoff Sheriff Nation for the 2025-26 season. Given the community’s tight shelf house, it was thought of doubtless that CBS once more may decide up a brand new present now for 2026-27, offering it with an extended manufacturing runway and launch promo marketing campaign that may kickoff throughout March Insanity 2026, one thing CBS has beforehand achieved with reveals like Tracker and Sheriff Nation.
Nonetheless, it’s intriguing that the choice to carry Einstein got here every week after the present had been initially ordered to collection. It’s unclear whether or not the transfer is simply based mostly on scheduling — CBS brass at the moment are within the thick of placing collectively the community’s 2025-26 schedule, which will probably be unveiled Might 7 — or whether or not there was a last-minute piece added for subsequent season that has pushed Einstein off the board.
CBS is but to make a renewal resolution on drama Equalizer, which has been vying for a sixth — and certain closing — season. The community additionally has Robert King and Michelle King’s Silicon Valley-set authorized one-hour Cupertino on a slower improvement monitor, with a wild card within the combine — the potential Yellowstone spinoff starring Luke Grimes, which might be fast-tracked at any level.
EINSTEIN – Drama
EP/W: Andy Breckman
EP/D: Randy Zisk
NW/EP: Tariq Jalil; Rose Hughes, Rodrigo Herrera Ibarguengoytia and Laura Beetz (Seven One Studios Worldwide)
STUDIO: CBS Studios
The collection is a drama with comedic undertones.
LOGLINE: Good however directionless, the good grandson of Albert Einstein spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor till his unhealthy boy antics land him in hassle with the regulation and he’s pressed into service serving to a neighborhood police detective resolve her most puzzling instances.
Starring: Matthew Grey Gubler, Rosa Salazar
