2018 Midseason Schedule: CBS

UPDATED January 11 (Monday & Wednesday)

Monday

8:00 - Big Brother (February 12 & 19)
8:00 - Kevin Can Wait
8:30 - Man with a Plan
9:00 - Superior Donuts
9:30 - 9JKL
9:30 - Living Biblically (NEW - Beginning February 26)
10:00 - Scorpion
10:00 - Elementary (New Timeslot - Beginning April 30)

Most of the late fall lineup stays intact in the new year, though 9JKL, which only received a partial backorder, will be replaced by the new multicam comedy Living Biblically (which is reverting to its original title, before it was changed to By the Book at upfronts). The fall lineup returns January 2

Before then, however, CBS will be airing a special celebrity edition of its summer stalwart Big Brother opposite the Olympics on NBC. Big Brother will air four nights a week for three weeks, beginning on Wednesday, February 7 and finishing up on Sunday, February 25.

The sixth season of the very low-rated Elementary returns on April 30, with less than a handful of episodes airing in-season and the rest airing in summer.

Tuesday

8:00 - NCIS
9:00 - Bull
10:00 - NCIS: New Orleans

Tuesdays stay entirely as is.

Wednesday

8:00 - The Amazing Race (New Timeslot - Beginning January 3)
8:00 - Big Brother (February 7, 14 & 21)
8:00 - Survivor (Beginning February 28)
9:00 - SEAL Team
9:00 - The Amazing Race (2 Hours - February 7, 14 & 21)
10:00 - Criminal Minds
10:00 - Code Black (Beginning May 2)

Wednesdays get complicated for CBS. The new season of The Amazing Race will air one hour a week throughout January before being double-pumped behind episodes of Big Brother in February, with a season finale airing February 21. The new season of Survivor takes over the following week with a 2-hour premiere, leading into a new episode of freshman drama SEAL Team, which will take a short hiatus opposite the Olympics along with Criminal Minds.

The third season of ratings-challenged medical drama Code Black airs beginning May 2, with most of its episodes airing in summer.

Thursday

8:00 - The Big Bang Theory
8:00 - Big Brother (February 8 Only)
8:30 - Young Sheldon
9:00 - Mom
9:30 - Life in Pieces
10:00 - S.W.A.T.

Except for one special showing of Big Brother on February 7, the fall lineup remains for Thursdays.

Friday

8:00 - MacGyver
8:00 - Big Brother (2 Hours - February 9, 16 & 23)
9:00 - Hawaii Five-0
10:00 - Blue Bloods

Big Brother airs double episodes for three weeks while the rest of the lineup is on hiatus.

Sunday

8:00 - Big Brother (February 11, 18 & 25)
8:00 - Instinct (NEW - Beginning March 18)
9:00 - NCIS: Los Angeles
10:00 - Madam Secretary

Newly-canceled Wisdom of the Crowd airs its finale in early January and is replaced by three weeks of Big Brother before the new Alan Cumming vehicle Instinct joins Sundays on March 18.

CBS is aggressively counter-programming the Winter Olympics with Big Brother and The Amazing Race, and it'll be interesting to see if it pays off. Other than that, this is hole-filling, with a new comedy replacing a canceled one on Monday and a new drama replacing a canceled one on Sunday. The only program still unscheduled is Undercover Boss.

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