CBS is trying out its own sense of time and space: The network's drama Einstein was recently ordered to run a series and provide targeting for next season, which will continue until the second year.
This means that the Matthew Gray Gubler Starr was first ordered as a pilot in August 2024 until two years later - in the 2026-2027 TV season, and it won't be electrocuted until two years later. According to CBS, the reason is that there is no room for "Einstein" in the upcoming 2025-2026 framework.
Eye Execs is now making final decisions for the next season’s schedule and will launch its fall 2025 plan at a press conference Wednesday, May 7. CBS executives are believed to think there is no room for “Einstein” timeline and the show could benefit from longer pre-production times.
Other new shows that have been ordered next season include the "Blue Bloods" spin-off "Boston Blue", the "Fire Country" spin-off "Sheriff Country" and the "FBI" spin-off "FBI: CIA". Other script series that will be returned are "Elsbeth", "FBI", "Fire Country", "Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage", "Ghost", "Matlock", "NCIS", "NCIS", "NCIS: NCIS: NCIS: ORIGINS", "NCIS: NCIS: NCIS: SYDNEY: SYDNEY", "Community", "Neighborhood", "Tracker" and "Watson" and "Watson". The shows that set out are "Blue Blood", "FB: International", "FBI: The Most Wanted", "Poppa's House" and "Swat".
It's unclear what this delay might mean for the "equalizer", and this is the last CBS scripting series is still in the bubble.
The decision to delay is the latest example of the faster network development and programming timelines for broadcasters such as CBS, which has been providing a longer runway for its series launches. (Last year, although it didn't air until the 2025-26 season, the network also made early pickups to Sheriff's Country.)
Similarly, in the recent Hollywood strike, several networks have hampered scripted fares (especially NBC), with the idea of strike fares. By waiting until 2026, CBS will indeed have "Einstein" in its arsenal, another production shutdown.
Based on the German format, "Einstein" is a dramatic drama that was previously the brilliant but undirected great-grandson of Albert Einstein, a comfortable tenured professor until he encountered the law and was forced to help local police detectives resolve the case.
Gubler plays Lewis Einstein, whose gift helps resolve homicide cases and may offer some purpose to his life, with Rosa Salazar playing the keen and disciplined detective of the New Jersey Police Department.
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The original German "Einstein" began in a 2015 TV film starring Tom Beck (Cobra 11), authors Martin Ritzenhoff and Matthias Dinter. Ritzenhoff and Dinter then turned it into a series through Zeitsprung Pictures. The show lasted for three seasons and was distributed to more than 100 territories.
The adaptation of "Einstein" has been underway for many years. Michael Reisz and Carol Mendelsohn tried it once for NBC in 2018, and then Breckman and Zisk developed a version for CBS in 2019, but ultimately didn't move forward. Eye Net tried the gender-folded version again in 2020 from Lauren Gussis and Corinne Brinkerhoff, but it didn't go ahead in the end.