Fall is officially less than three weeks away, which means the return of network television is close at hand. All the major networks have unveiled their full schedules for the coming 2026-27 season, and the dates are set for the annual mix of new and returning shows that will grace the airwaves as the leaves turn brown. For CBS, it will largely be business as usual. 14 shows are continuing with new seasons starting on Sunday, October 4, with two of the eye’s biggest draws — Marshals and Tracker — followed by favorites like the NCIS, FBI, and Fire Country franchises, Elsbeth, Boston Blue, and more. However, things have been shaken up somewhat from where last season left off.
CBS will debut three new shows this fall, all of which come from some of the network’s most reliable creators. Elsbeth and The Good Wife duo Robert and Michelle King have a reunion with Evil star Mike Colter in store for Thursday nights in the form of the Silicon Valley legal drama, Cupertino, taking the place of Matlock, which returns for Season 3 during the midseason. Also being saved for the winter is Ghosts, giving way for Joe Portand Joe Wiseman‘s new vampire-centric comedy, Eternally Yours, starring Allegra Edwards and Ed Weeks. Most exciting for NCIS fans, meanwhile, is the introduction of NCIS: New York, bringing LL COOL J back to the franchise as Sam Hanna to lead a new team in his hometown with a new partner in Scott Caan. With all the changes and excitement surrounding the return of CBS’ original programming, the curtain will soon be pulled for an early peek at all the stories coming next month.
On Thursday, September 10, the Paramount-owned network will debut a half-hour CBS Fall First Look special at 9 p.m. ET/PT, going over the entire fall slate. It’ll consist of a treasure trove of exclusive sneak peeks from the coming premiere, as well as behind-the-scenes looks into how these programs, from the procedurals to the comedies, come together every year. No further details of the special were shared, but this may give viewers their best impression yet of the three new series that will look to establish themselves as CBS staples.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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CBS Has One More New Series Planned to Arrive in 2027
In addition to its three new shows airing this fall, CBS has also ordered a fourth, Einstein, that’ll have a midseason premiere. Criminal Minds alum Matthew Gray Gubler is set to lead as the titular Lewis Einstein, the great-grandson of renowned physicist Albert Einstein who is as brilliant as he is directionless and unambitious. Content to continue with his cushy job as a tenured professor, his antics finally catch up with him and land him in legal hot water, where he’s pressed to help a local homicide detective (Melissa Fumero) unravel Boston’s most confusing cases and, maybe, reform the institution from the ground up. The lightly comedic crime procedural hails from executive producers Randy Fisk and Monk creator Andy Breckman.
The CBS Fall First Look special will air on Thursday, September 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, less than a month before CBS’ premiere week starting October 4. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on the network’s shows until then.
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Release Date
September 23, 2003
Showrunner
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Donald P. Bellisario
Directors
Dennis Smith, Terrence O’Hara, Tony Wharmby, James Whitmore Jr., Thomas J. Wright, Michael Zinberg, Arvin Brown, Rocky Carroll, Diana Valentine, Leslie Libman, Tawnia McKiernan, Colin Bucksey, William Webb, Bethany Rooney, Alrick Riley, Jeff Woolnough, Alan J. Levi, Lionel Coleman, Martha Mitchell, Peter Ellis, Michael Weatherly, Edward Ornelas, Stephen Cragg, Tom Wright
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Writers
George Schenck, Frank Cardea, Jesse Stern, John C. Kelley, Jennifer Corbett, Christopher Silber, Reed Steiner, Nicole Mirante-Matthews, Jack Bernstein, Scott J. Jarrett, Matthew R. Jarrett, Kimberly-Rose Wolter, Don McGill, Gil Grant, Frank Military, Nell Scovell, Steven Kriozere, Brian Dietzen, Kate Torgovnick May, Jeff Vlaming, Sydney Mitchel, Katie White, Richard C. Arthur, Laurence Walsh
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