CBS Fall TV Shows 2025: The Complete Schedule and Premiere Dates

Looking at CBS's fall TV schedule for the 2025-2026 season, one of the first things you'll notice is that The Eye is losing three of its acronymic TV shows — the network's trademark TV titling style choice that really kicked into gear with 1995's JAG and continued with CSI, NCIS, and their legions of spin-offs. Gone are FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, and S.W.A.T., all of which were canceled. But fans of ALL CAPS shouldn't worry, because CBS is adding three new shows, all with big, capital letters: CIA, DMV, and Y: Marshals. P.H.E.W.!

One of those shows will be slotted on Mondays starting Oct. 13., with new comedy DMV following the latest season of The Neighborhood. DMV stars Harriet Dyer, Tim Meadows, and Tony Cavalero and is set at a Department of Motor Vehicles office. That's followed by FBI, which returns for its eighth season, and sophomore drama Watson caps off the evening.     

With the cancellation of two FBI series, Tuesdays are taken over by a trio of NCIS shows — NCIS, NCIS: Origins, and NCIS: Sydney — beginning Oct. 14. Wednesdays feature the familiar pairing of Survivor and The Amazing Race (they get an earlier start in late September), with game shows and the new true crime series Harlan Coben's Final Twist taking over in mid-winter. In the latter series, the popular author will present criminal cases with unusual twists. Come spring, Survivor returns for its 50th season and will be followed by the new reality cooking series America's Culinary Cup, hosted by Padma Lakshmi. 

Thursdays remain unchanged with Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Ghosts, Matlock, and Elsbeth, but Friday has a mostly new look — but with familiar faces. Starting the evening at 8/7c is a new drama, the Fire Country spin-off Sheriff Country, starring Morena Baccarin as the keeper of laws in Edgewater, the small California town where Fire Country takes place. (Could Doctor Country be coming next year!?!?) A new season of Fire Country airs at 9/8c, followed by Boston Blue, a spin-off of the canceled Blue Bloods that follows Donnie Wahlberg's cop Danny Reagan as he moves from the Big Apple to Beantown. However, for their premieres on Oct. 17, Fire Country and Sheriff Country will swap spots, likely to ease new fans into Sheriff Country with a Fire Country lead-in.

Sundays are once again anchored by Tracker, which enters its third season. In the fall, it will be followed by The Road, a new music competition series produced by Taylor Sheridan. In the spring, Tracker will lead into the new series Y: Marshals (working title), a spin-off of Yellowstone starring Luke Grimes, whose Yellowstone character Kayce Dutton joins the U.S. Marshals in Montana. 

CIA was originally scheduled to premiere in the fall on Monday, but in July, it was moved to the spring while it undergoes a showrunner switcheroo. CIA is a spin-off of FBI, or, if you ask CBS, it's a "universe expansion of the FBI series," and stars Lucifer's Tom Ellis as a reckless CIA agent partnered with a by-the-book FBI agent who is yet to be cast.

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• Fox summer 2025 TV show schedule
• ABC summer 2025 TV show schedule

Renewed CBS TV shows returning for the 2025-2026 season

48 Hours, 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race, Elsbeth, FBI, Fire Country, Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Ghosts, Hollywood Squares (mid-winter), Matlock, NCIS, NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Sydney, The Neighborhood, Survivor, Tracker, Watson

New CBS TV shows for the 2025-2026 season

Boston Blue, CIA (spring), DMV, The Road, Sheriff Country, America's Culinary Cup (spring), Harlan Coben's Final Twist (mid-winter), Y: Marshals (spring)

Canceled CBS TV shows that won't be back

Blue Bloods, The Equalizer, FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, Poppa's House, The Summit, S.W.A.T.

Check out the full CBS fall TV schedule below. Premiere dates are at the bottom of the page. New series in bold. All times listed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

CBS 2025-2026 Monday night schedule

8 p.m.: The Neighborhood (Season 8)
8:30 p.m.: DMV (Season 1)
9 p.m.: FBI (Season 8)
10 p.m.: Watson (Season 2)

CBS 2025-2026 Tuesday night schedule

8 p.m.: NCIS (Season 23)
9 p.m.: NCIS: Origins (Season 2)
10 p.m.: NCIS: Sydney (Season 3)

CBS 2025-2026 Wednesday night schedule (early fall)

8 p.m.: Survivor (Season 49)
9:30 p.m.: The Amazing Race (Season 38)

CBS 2025-2026 Wednesday night schedule (mid-winter)

8 p.m.: Hollywood Squares
9 p.m.: The Price Is Right at Night 
10 p.m.: Harlan Coben's Final Twist (Season 1)

CBS 2025-2026 Wednesday night schedule (spring)

8 p.m.: Survivor (Season 50)
9:30 p.m.: America's Culinary Cup (Season 1) 
10:30 p.m.: Hollywood Squares

CBS 2025-2026 Thursday night schedule

8 p.m.: Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (Season 2)
8:30 p.m.: Ghosts (Season 5)
9 p.m.: Matlock (Season 2)
10 p.m.: Elsbeth (Season 3)

CBS 2025-2026 Friday night schedule

8 p.m.: Sheriff Country (Season 1)
9 p.m.: Fire Country (Season 4)
10 p.m.: Boston Blue (Season 1)

CBS 2025-2026 Saturday night schedule

8 p.m.: Drama repeats
10 p.m.: 48 Hours

CBS 2025-2026 Sunday night schedule

7 p.m.: 60 Minutes
8 p.m.: Tracker (Season 3)
9 p.m.: The Road (Season 1)
10 p.m.: Drama repeats

CBS 2025-2026 Sunday night schedule (spring)

7 p.m.: 60 Minutes
8 p.m.: Tracker (Season 3)
9 p.m.: Y: Marshals (Season 1)
10 p.m.: TBD

CBS fall TV 2025 premiere dates

Sunday, Sept. 7
8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT: 2025 Video Music Awards

Sunday, Sept. 14
8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT: 77th Emmy Awards

Sunday, Sept. 21
8 p.m.: A Grammy Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire Live: The 21st Night of September

Wednesday, Sept. 24
8 p.m.: Survivor (Season 49 premiere, two hours)
Regular 8:00-9:30 p.m. Wednesday timeslot begins Oct. 1

Thursday, Sept. 25
8 p.m.: The Amazing Race (Season 38 premiere)
Regular 9:30-11 p.m. Wednesday timeslot begins Oct. 1

Saturday, Sept. 27
10 p.m.: 48 Hours (Season 38 premiere)

Sunday, Sept. 28
7 p.m. ET: NFL on CBS doubleheader
7:30 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT: 60 Minutes (Season 58 premiere)
7-8 p.m. Sunday timeslot on Oct. 5
8:30 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT: Big Brother (Season 27 finale, two hours)

Wednesday, Oct. 1
8 p.m.: Survivor
9:30 p.m.: The Amazing Race

CBS Premiere Week — Sunday, Oct. 12
7 p.m. ET: NFL on CBS doubleheader
7:30 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT: 60 Minutes
8:30 p.m. ET / 8:00 p.m. PT: Matlock (Season 2 premiere, sneak peek)
Regular 9-10 p.m. Thursday timeslot begins Oct. 16
9:30 p.m. ET / 9:00 p.m. PT: Elsbeth (Season 3 premiere, sneak peek)
Regular 10-11 p.m. Sunday timeslot begins Oct. 16

Monday, Oct. 13
8 p.m.: The Neighborhood (Season 8 premiere)
8:30 p.m.: DMV (series premiere)
9 p.m.: FBI (Season 8 premiere)
10 p.m.: Watson (Season 2 premiere)

Tuesday, Oct. 14
8 p.m.: NCIS (Season 23 premiere)
9 p.m.: NCIS: Origins (Season 2 premiere)
10 p.m.: NCIS: Sydney (Season 3 premiere)

Wednesday, Oct. 15
8 p.m.: Survivor
9:30 p.m.: The Amazing Race

Thursday, Oct. 16
8 p.m.: Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (Season 2 premiere)
8:30 p.m.: Ghosts (Season 5 premiere)
9 p.m.: Matlock
10 p.m.: Elsbeth

Friday, Oct. 17
8 p.m.: Fire Country (Season 4 premiere)
Regular 9-10 p.m. Friday timeslot begins Oct. 24
9 p.m.: Sheriff Country (series premiere)
Regular 8-9 p.m. Friday timeslot begins Oct. 24
10 p.m.: Boston Blue (series premiere)

Saturday, Oct. 18
10 p.m.: 48 Hours

Sunday, Oct. 19
7 p.m.: 60 Minutes
8 p.m.: Tracker (Season 3 premiere)
9 p.m.: The Road (series premiere)
Airs at 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 and Nov. 2; returns to regular 9-10 p.m. Sunday timeslot on Nov. 9

Friday, Oct. 24
8 p.m.: Sheriff Country
9 p.m.: Fire Country
10 p.m.: Boston Blue