UPDATED OCTOBER 13
I will place the original schedule behind a jump, but the updated schedule is now below.
Monday
8:00 - The Neighborhood (Premieres November 16)
8:30 - Bob ❤ Abishola (Premieres November 16)
9:00 - One Day at a Time (Broadcast Premiere - October 12)
9:00 - All Rise (Premieres November 16)
10:00 - Manhunt: Deadly Games (Broadcast Premiere - September 21)
One Day at a Time gets some back-to-back episodes on CBS that already aired this summer on POP, before the comedies and All Rise return in mid-November.
Tuesday
8:00 - NCIS (Premieres November 17)
9:00 - FBI (Repeats)
10:00 - The FBI Declassified (NEW - Premieres October 13)
The new six-part docuseries about the FBI premieres at 10:00 in October, with new episode of NCIS coming in November. There is currently no air date for the new season of FBI, which will continue in repeats for the time being.
Wednesday
8:00 - The Amazing Race (Premieres October 14 at 9:00)
9:00 - SWAT (Premieres November 11)
10:00 - TBA
Big Brother continues into October, with a finale on October 28. SWAT, which was originally scheduled for midseason, will return on November 11 with a two-hour premiere after being the first broadcast show back in production.
Thursday
8:00 - Young Sheldon (Premieres November 5)
8:30 - B Positive (NEW - Premieres November 5)
9:00 - Mom (Premieres November 5)
9:30 - TBA
10:00 - Star Trek: Discovery (Broadcast Premiere - September 24)
Big Brother and Love Island finish their summer runs in October. They're joined by the first season of Star Trek: Discovery on September 24, which is a CBS All Access exclusive (and which starts is third season on the streaming platform on October 15, in a nice bit of advertising). Most of the comedy lineup, including the new series B Positive, returns on November 5. A premiere date for The Unicorn, which was scheduled for 9:30, is TBA.
Friday
8:00 - Greatest #AtHome Videos (Premieres September 25)
9:00 - Undercover Boss (Premieres October 2)
10:00 - Blue Bloods (repeats)
Greatest #AtHome Videos aired for episodes this summer and returns for the fall, joined by the new season of Undercover Boss, previously held for midseason. Pushed back to 2021 are MacGyver, Magnum PI, and Blue Bloods.
Sunday
7:00 - 60 Minutes (Premieres September 20)
8:00 - NCIS: Los Angeles (Premieres November 8)
9:00 - NCIS: New Orleans (Premieres November 8)
10:00 - NCIS (repeats)
New drama The Equalizer is pushed to 2021, replaced by repeats and leftover summer runs of Big Brother and Love Island until November. Then NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans shift forward an hour each (likely to avoid late starts due to NFL outrun), followed by NCIS repeats of "fan favorite episodes from the first 17 seasons."
Monday
8:00 - The Neighborhood
8:30 - Bob ❤ Abishola
9:00 - All Rise
10:00 - Bull
No changes to Monday nights.
Tuesday
8:00 - NCIS
9:00 - FBI
10:00 - FBI: Most Wanted
Again, the midseason Tuesday schedule remains the same.
Wednesday
8:00 - Survivor
9:00 - The Amazing Race (New Timeslot)
10:00 - SEAL Team (New Timeslot)
The Amazing Race was supposed to air this summer, but with a potential lack of programming, it's pushed to fall. SEAL Team moves back an hour and SWAT gets held for midseason.
Thursday
8:00 - Young Sheldon
8:30 - B Positive (NEW)
9:00 - Mom
9:30 - The Unicorn (New Timeslot)
10:00 - Evil
B Positive is the only pilot this season which actually got made, so it was a shoo-in for CBS's 2020-21 schedule; that it's from powerhouse producer Chuck Lorre probably helped. It gets the plum post-Young Sheldon slot, bumping The Unicorn to 9:30. Evil returns for its second season to the slot it previously occupied.
Friday
8:00 - MacGyver
9:00 - Magnum P.I.
10:00 - Blue Bloods
No changes, again, from midseason.
Sunday
8:00 - The Equalizer (NEW)
9:00 - NCIS: Los Angeles
10:00 - NCIS: New Orleans
The first of CBS's two new dramas, a small-screen adaptation of the Denzel Washington property The Equalizer, itself a big-screen adaptation of a 1980s CBS procedural, starring Queen Latifah, takes over the slot previously belonging to God Friended Me. This is traditionally a difficult slot for CBS to program. It's a bit of an odd move (why not move MacGyver, Magnum P.I. or SEAL Team?) but it's also exciting to see an original drama on the fall schedule.
Midseason
Held over are, as previously mentioned, SWAT and the return of Undercover Boss. They'll be joined by one new drama, Clarice, a sequel to Silence of the Lambs following the titular FBI agent.
This is a very, very optimistic schedule. Granted, CBS didn't announce premiere dates, so "fall" can mean they expect this schedule to be airing sometime before December, but even then... this feels ambitious, particularly for shows like Survivor, which will have to literally navigate international waters to resume production (unless they can get creative and drop them in the Californian desert or something). The network did say that, since their merger with Viacom, they have many options available to them for acquisitions and such should this not work out, but they also said they've been talking to studios, producers, and guilds and are confident they can resume production sometime this summer in time for a fall premiere. Let's hope!
Click after the jump for new show descriptions.
Clarice - Clarice, from acclaimed executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, and starring Rebecca Breeds (Pretty Little Liars) in the title role, is a deep dive into the untold personal story of FBI Agent Clarice Starling as she returns to the field in 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs. Brilliant and vulnerable, Clarice's bravery gives her an inner light that draws monsters and madmen to her. However, her complex psychological makeup that comes from a challenging childhood empowers her to begin to find her voice while working in a man's world, as well as escape the family secrets that have haunted her throughout her life. Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet, Elizabeth J.B. Klaviter and Heather Kadin are executive producers for MGM Television and CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout. Aaron Baiers is a co-executive producer. Maja Vrvilo will direct the pilot episode from a script by Lumet and Kurtzman.
The Equalizer - The Equalizer is a reimagining of the classic series starring Academy Award nominee and multi-hyphenate Queen Latifah (Chicago, Bessie) as Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall presents to most as an average single mom who is quietly raising her teenage daughter. But to a trusted few, she is The Equalizer - an anonymous guardian angel and defender of the downtrodden, who's also dogged in her pursuit of personal redemption. Andrew Marlowe, Terri Miller, Dana Owens (Queen Latifah), John Davis, John Fox, Debra Martin Chase, Richard Lindheim (co-creator of the original "Equalizer" TV series that ran on CBS for four seasons), Shakim Compere and Liz Friedlander (pilot only) are executive producers for Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, in association with CBS Television Studios. Friedlander will direct the pilot episode from a script by Marlowe and Miller.
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