CBS was dwelling to a few of community TV’s greatest freshman hits by the tip of the spring 2025 TV schedule, together with Morris Chestnut’s Watson. The physician/detective drama featured names like John Watson, Mary Morstan, and James Moriarty straight out of Sherlock Holmes tales, however with a contemporary medical twist. Whereas the collection was renewed for Season 2, one CBS exec defined why its return goes to be delayed, and that information made me suppose again on happier feedback from forged member Peter Mark Kendall.
Why CBS Is Delaying Watson Season 2
As an alternative of becoming a member of reveals like Dick Wolf’s new CIA collection and fellow 2024-2025 freshman hit Matlock in CBS’ 2025-2026 TV lineup this fall, Watson will as soon as once more premiere in midseason, which presumably means early 2026. CBS Leisure President Amy Reisenbach addressed the choice to Deadline, saying:
We’ll undoubtedly be pushing viewers to binge it on Paramount+ within the meantime. However there actually was an absence of room on the schedule. You take a look at that schedule, there’s no different actual logical place for it.
With the cancellation of The Equalizer, the community’s new Sunday night time lineup in midseason will probably be comprised of Justin Hartley’s Tracker Season 3, a Yellowstone spinoff starring Luke Grimes, and Watson Season 2. Tracker will maintain onto the 8 p.m. ET time slot, whereas Y: Marshals takes over 9 p.m. ET and Watson is pushed again to 10 p.m. ET.
Amy Reisenbach went on to say that she’s “pretty assured” the opposite two dramas will probably be “very, very large lead-ins” for Watson, then defined why the transfer might be good for anyone with a Paramount+ subscription:
Watson does actually, rather well for us on streaming as properly. So we count on that viewers who may not catch it at 10 o’clock will catch on streaming as a result of it’s had such a loyal fan base over on Paramount+. We predict it’s the perfect of each worlds.
So, it is not all unhealthy information from CBS about the way forward for Watson, even when followers will probably be dismayed with the wait till 2026 to see what’s subsequent for John after his surprising determination about Moriarty. Personally, I am simply glad to now suppose again on one thing a lot happier to look ahead to from Watson after what occurred within the finale for Peter Mark Kendall’s character(s).
Peter Mark Kendall On Stephens’ Relationships
The vast majority of the two-part Season 1 finale really wasn’t going nice for the Croft twins, to the purpose that it appeared that one may die and Peter Mark Kendall would solely be taking part in Stephens or Adam in Season 2. Fortuitously, each twins survived and Kendall is going through one other season taking part in two most important characters. Plus, Stephens went from circling the drain to getting a candy kiss from Sasha after her emotional speech to him whereas he was comatose earlier within the finale.
After I spoke with Peter Mark Kendall concerning the finish of Season 1, I requested what it was like for him to movie Sasha’s large speech to Stephens, with Inga Schlingmann placing on a robust efficiency whereas he may solely fake to be in a coma. He shared:
Properly, that is the perfect job on the planet, as a result of you haven’t any traces to recollect, and also you simply type of sit there and have somebody superbly act at you. [laughs] No, nevertheless it was actually significant to have a storyline that is been hinted at or type of subtextual for many of the season come onto the web page and are available onto the display screen. All people is simply a lot enjoyable to behave with, and so I hope that there is extra to return for Stephens and Sasha, regardless of the case could also be. It undoubtedly felt like a very cool, cathartic second to play on the finish of the season, when there’s been a lot ‘Will they or will not they?’
In a finale that included the primary character ruthlessly killing his nemesis (performed by the great Randall Park) and Ingrid probably working her final case with the staff, Sasha and Stephens’ pretty second collectively was an uplifting second forward of Season 2.
The finale two-parter was additionally key for the twins’ relationship, as Adam and Stephens needed to face doubtlessly shedding the opposite. They butted heads fairly often all through Season 1, however the strain was definitely on after they have been on demise’s door! So, will their relationship change after this ordeal? Season 2 could also be a methods off, however Peter Mark Kendall shared his ideas:
Relationships all the time change, and I think about the identical is true for Croft twins. We have seen them butting heads a lot, we have seen them disagree after which have this sort of second of reckoning on the finish of the season. However they’re nonetheless brothers. I consider them as they’re finest pals and worst enemies. Nobody can annoy you and nobody can get underneath your pores and skin like household can. However I feel they’ve grown nearer as properly. So I feel that may ratchet up the methods through which they struggle and the methods through which they love one another. [laughs]
As anyone with brothers of my very own, I’ve to agree that nobody can get underneath your pores and skin like household! It stays to be seen if Stephens actually will ever have a finest man speech for Adam on Watson, however as Peter Mark Kendall went on to say – “Fingers crossed.”
With the lengthy wait on for Season 2, followers can all the time take a look at the primary season of Watson streaming on Paramount+. Hopefully the present inheriting The Equalizer‘s time slot only a yr after Queen Latifah’s present was cancelled is not a nasty signal for the longer term.