CBS Pushes ‘Einstein’ Drama Back a Year to 2026-27 (2025)

CBS has calculated that it won’t have room for its recently ordered procedural Einstein on next season’s schedule.

The network announced a series order for the show, in which Criminal Minds alum Matthew Gray Gubler plays the famed physicist’s great-grandson, a week ago. As CBS began assembling its schedule for the 2025-26 season, however, the network decided that it didn’t have enough space(-time) to fit Einstein into the slate.

From there, it was apparently a relatively easy decision to push the series back to the 2026-27 season.

Einstein was one of two new series CBS ordered last week; the other, a workplace comedy titled DMV, is still a go for next season. The network will also have three other new dramas in 2025-26, all based on current or recently ended shows: Boston Blue, a Blue Bloods spinoff following Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny Reagan to a new city; CIA, which is set in the same fictional universe as FBI; and Sheriff Country, a Fire Country spinoff that CBS ordered more than a year ago.

CBS has also renewed a dozen scripted series and will have reality staples Survivor and The Amazing Race, along with a new music competition called The Road, on tap for next season.

Based on a German series, Einstein centers on Lewis Einstein (Gubler), the “brilliant but directionless” great-grandson of Albert Einstein and a tenured professor at Princeton who gets in trouble with the law. He’s pressed into service helping a detective (Rosa Salazar) solve her most puzzling cases.

CBS Studios is producing Einstein. Andy Breckman (Monk) created the American version and executive produces with director and fellow Monk alum Randy Zisk, Tariq Jalil, and Rose Hughes, Rodrigo Herrera Ibarguengoytia and Laura Beetz of Seven One Studios International.

CBS will announce its 2025-26 schedule on May 7. Keep track of new series orders, renewals and cancellations with THR’s network scorecard.