Across broadcast and streaming, Elsbeth is netting nearly 11 million viewers after 35 days of viewing. That’s up 52% from CSI: Vegas’ performance in the time slot last year.
The latenight program will broadcast live from Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre during this year’s Democratic National Convention, also taking place in Chicago Aug. 19-22 on CBS. The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will also be available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+. Colbert announced the news on Wednesday night’s episode.
The network has handed out a formal series order to The Gates. The network on Monday announced that the series, following the lives of a wealthy Black family in a posh, gated community, will debut in January 2025. The specific time period, launch date and other details will be revealed later. The official series pickup comes a month after CBS announced it was teaming with the NAACP to develop The Gates.
CBS just announced that the network will rebroadcast Billy Joel: The 100th – Live at Madison Square Garden special in its entirety this Friday, April 19, after Sunday’s presentation cut out in some parts of the country as the singer was in the middle of his signature hit Piano Man. The special will be rebroadcast in its entirety on CBS on April 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
After bringing back CSI: Crime Scene Investigation with CSI: Vegas, CBS is looking to revive another Jerry Bruckheimer Television-produced crime procedural from the 2000s. The network is in negotiations with Warner Bros. TV for a reboot of Cold Case, which aired on CBS for seven seasons from 2003 to 2010. The followup comes from the series’ creator/executive producer Meredith Stiehm.
Exclusives
The Talk is coming to an end: CBS revealed today that its daytime talk show has been picked up for a 15th and final season and will wrap its run in December.
CBS has renewed S.W.A.T. for the 2024-2025 season, which will be Season No. 8 for the drama. Shemar Moore leads the cast. The show was canceled in 2023, but resurrected three days later amid protests on social media, including those from Moore.
CBS will feature some high-profile soccer matches, with Barcelona playing Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Tuesday, April 16, and Manchester City taking on Real Madrid Wednesday, April 17. Both matches are UEFA Champions League quarterfinals and will air on CBS and Paramount Plus at 2 p.m. ET on their respective days. Both matches will have the UEFA Champions League Today show on before, starting at 1:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Golazo Network, and 2 p.m. on CBS and Paramount Plus.
NCIS has been a top 20 series for 18 of its 20 full seasons and has ranked as the No. 1 drama for the last five consecutive seasons – and 13 of the last 14. Now in its 21st season, NCIS is the No. 2 entertainment program this season, trailing only Tracker on CBS. The renewal brings NCIS through its 22nd season. The Neighborhood is averaging 5.83 million viewers season to date and is TV’s third-ranked comedy. This renewal brings the sitcom through its seventh season.
Spinoffs International and Most Wanted will also return on one-year pickups for 2024-25.
The end of CBS’s strikes-shortened 2023-24 season will begin on May 2, when Ghosts conjures up its Season 3 finale. The Rose McIver-led comedy is among 20 series to receive finale dates Monday. The list also includes NCIS, Fire Country, Tracker and FBI, and a series finale date for S.W.A.T. As previously reported, Young Sheldon will wrap its seven-season run with back-to-back episodes, while fellow outgoing Chuck Lorre sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola — which was initially slated to end on Monday, May 13 — will now wrap a week earlier than expected.
The Big Four affiliates want federal regulators to drop plans of keeping a record of signal blackouts that result from contract disputes between TV stations and cable and satellite TV providers. Lawyers for some 600 stations affiliated with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox networks delivered that message to the FCC this week along with a fresh request that online linear video providers like YouTube TV should be classified as the legal equivalent of cable and satellite TV operators and brought within the carriage distribution system known as retransmission consent.
Executives from CBS, Fox Television Stations, Fremantle and Apploff Entertainment to discuss the need for cross-platform interactivity and other strategies to keep viewers more engaged in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 14. Register here.
Two months after the Golden Globes aired on CBS for the first time in more than four decades, the network has closed a new five-year deal to continue to broadcast the awards show and stream it live on Paramount+.
The network has ordered a second season of the series, the first international edition of its NCIS franchise. The pickup corresponds with a second-season order for the show from Paramount+ in Australia.
The network is trying to develop partnerships with a cluster of marketers that typically find their customers among decision-making executives at corporations. One such advertiser is Codingscape, a technology consultant that sees an alliance with Tomlinson as something that will help get potential clients to view the company as innovative. Instead of putting traditional TV ads on Tomlinson’s latenight show, however, Codingscape wants to run digital ads with its message posted alongside clips of her in action.
Why CBS Thinks It Can Survive The Streaming Wars
The failure of Hollywood studios to strike a timely deal with writers and actors last summer meant the traditional fall TV season was canceled in 2023. But while all of the Big Four broadcasters experienced some Nielsen pain as a result, none took a bigger hit than CBS. George Cheeks, the president and CEO of CBS and chief content officer for news and sports at Paramount+, does not attempt to sugarcoat his network’s fourth-quarter struggle.
The NCIS prequel series at CBS has added Mariel Molino to its cast. Malino joins previously announced series lead Austin Stowell in the series, which is titled NCIS: Origins. The series was originally ordered at CBS in January with plans to launch during the 2024-25 broadcast season. Mark Harmon, who played Gibbs for nearly two decades in the mothership series, will serve as the show’s narrator and executive producer.
NCAA’s “March Madness,” the three-week men’s college basketball tournament on CBS and Turner cable networks and platforms, has seen TV advertising price increases of mid- to high-single digit percentage gains with overall ad-revenue volume of similar percentage hikes.
The two shows join Tracker in securing a spot in the network’s lineup for next season.
The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will air live Friday, June 7, on CBS and will stream on Paramount+, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday. Ceremonies will take place at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles. This marks the 18th time the Daytime Emmys will have streamed on CBS, the most of any network.
CBS Studios’s joint venture with the NAACP is developing a new daytime drama about a Black family that is expected to air on the CBS Television Network. The series, The Gates, will be co-produced by P&G Studio, a division of big advertiser Procter & Gamble.
Brian Beneker, a script coordinator on the show who claims “heterosexual, white men need ‘extra’ qualifications” to be hired on the network’s shows, is represented by a conservative group founded by Trump administration alum Stephen Miller.
Austin Stowell (Catch-22 TV series) is taking on Mark Harmon’s signature NCIS character Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Stowell has been cast as young Gibbs in CBS’s new drama NCIS: Origins, a prequel to the venerable procedural, which has a straight-to-series order for the 2024-25 broadcast season. CBS Studios is producing.
The series premiere aired directly after the Super Bowl — which Nielsen measured as the most-watched telecast of all time — and reached 18.4 million viewers, a number that Paramount Global says has now grown to 30 million across platforms. Three more episodes have aired since, and continue to perform strongly without football lead-in: Episode 2 hit 6.9 million viewers, Episode 2 hit 7.1 million and Episode 3 hit 7.4 million.
Deaf artists Shaheem Sanchez, Anjel Piñero and Daniel Durant were introduced during the game before their performances. Sanchez performed Lift Every Voice and Sing with Andra Day, Piñero was introduced to perform alongside Post Malone’s America, The Beautiful and Durant interpreted the National Anthem alongside Reba McEntire. “I am absolutely SHOCKED at CBS for introducing the Deaf performers at today’s pregame #SuperBowl and then not showing even one second (or more) of their performance… as has been tradition for the last 30 years. WHY!?” Matlin posted on X.
“What a thrill to be able to say that we witnessed an overtime Super Bowl game and what will go down in history as one of the greatest games of all time and the longest Super Bowl game of all time. That’s what I’m trying to process right now,” Nantz said after the Kansas City Chiefs 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers. “I’m thrilled for our team and thrilled for the sport. It was an unbelievably fitting finish to a remarkable football season.” Pictured: Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce with Jim Nance (George Walker IV/AP)
On Sunday night, Mike Benson gets a little over seven minutes to cap off weeks of work. The CBS marketing chief will use promo time allotted to Paramount Global during the Super Bowl to turbocharge a broad array of campaigns he has set in motion in the past few months aimed at getting viewers excited about one of the most unorthodox TV seasons in history.
The storied network is facing a wave of change, including new leadership, the possible sale of its parent company and the continued challenge of streaming. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AP)
The network will use 165 cameras this Sunday for its coverage of the game in Las Vegas as well as pregame, halftime and postgame shows, which CBS says is the most ever for a Super Bowl. They will be supported by 19 mobile production trucks. And CBS’s 1080p HDR production from Allegiant Stadium will also be used as the backbone of an alternative broadcast on the children’s network Nickelodeon, Super Bowl LVIII Live from Bikini Bottom, that will use enhanced graphics and augmented reality to incorporate characters from the popular SpongeBob SquarePants animated series into live game coverage. Plus, there are the “doink cams.”
CBS said the president declined its invitation to appear ahead of what may be the highest-rated television broadcast of the year.
Dolly Parton has teamed up with CBS to present the Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala special which is slated to premiere on CBS Network and on Paramount+ on Feb. 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The special will air live and on demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs.
Morena Baccarin (Deadpool franchise) is set to appear in an upcoming episode of CBS’s Fire Country, playing a sheriff character that could lead her own series. Baccarin will guest star in the Season 2 episode with an option to become a series regular in a potential spinoff series. Like the mothership series, the proposed offshoot would be produced by CBS Studios.
The group reups KIMT Rochester, Minn.; KHSL Chico, Calif.; WTHI Terre Haute, Ind.: WLFI West Lafayette, Ind.; and WEVV Evansville, Ind.
CBS debuted its newest latenight show on Tuesday and the numbers are. After Midnight, hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, was watched by an average of 686,000 viewers in the 12:37am hour, per Nielsen’s live+same day fast national data. This compares to The Late Late Show with James Corden’s live+same day average of 806,000 for its final season.
In the latest TV show ratings, Part 1 of NCIS: Sydney‘s Season 1 finale on CBS was Tuesday’s most-watched program, while Fox’s The Floor tied ABC’s Celebrity Jeopardy! for the night’s highest demo rating.
It is the third time the trio will call the big game together. The telecast will be produced by Jim Rikhoff and directed by Mike Arnold.
