Dr. John Watson can have extra medical mysteries to unravel: The Morris Chestnut-led drama is coming again.
CBS has renewed Watson for Season 2, to air within the 2025-2026 season. This information comes seven episodes into the primary season.
The renewal additionally brings the variety of exhibits on CBS’ schedule for subsequent season to 18 already. The returning exhibits are: The Superb Race, Elsbeth, FBI, Fireplace Nation, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, Ghosts, Hollywood Squares, Matlock, NCIS, NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Sydney, The Neighborhood (for its remaining season), Survivor, and Tracker. (FBI and Ghosts have each been picked up for the 2026-2027 season as effectively.) New exhibits embrace: Blue Bloods spinoff Boston Blue (working title), Fireplace Nation spinoff Sheriff Nation, and singing competitors The Street.
FBI: Worldwide, FBI: Most Needed, and S.W.A.T. will all be ending with their present seasons. That leaves the fates of The Equalizer and Poppa’s Home (which acquired a full-season order concurrently NCIS: Origins in November 2024) nonetheless up within the air.
Along with Chestnut, Watson stars Eve Harlow (as Ingrid), Peter Mark Kendall (as Adam and Stephens), Inga Schlingmann (as Sasha), Ritchie Coster (as Shinwell), and Rochelle Aytes (as Mary). Randall Park performs Moriarty, and his casting was stored a shock till the premiere aired.
Watson picks up six months after the loss of life of John’s pal and novice sleuth Sherlock Holmes (whose voice – Matt Berry — he has since hallucinated) at Reichenbach Falls with Moriarty. The villain was since revealed to have survived and has unwillingly enlisted Shinwell to do his bidding. As head of a clinic devoted to treating uncommon problems, Watson works with a group of fellows. However he and Moriarty have their very own chapter of a narrative to put in writing.
Watson averages 6.79 million viewers every week, based on Nielsen season-to-date most present knowledge. The premiere, which aired on January 26 after the AFC Championship recreation, has been seen by 18.7 million multi-platform viewers in reside plus 35 days of viewing, making it CBS’ most-watched scripted episode of the 2024-25 season. In streaming alone, the premiere is the most-streamed scripted episode of all CBS Unique collection this season on Paramount+ with 7 million streaming viewers.
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Watson, Sundays, 9/8c, CBS