CBS has unveiled its 2025-2026 midseason lineup which features the series premieres of FBI offshoot CIA, Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone sequel Y: Marshals, Harlan Coben’s Final Twist and America’s Culinary Cup, the returns of Watson, Tracker, The Neighborhood, DMV, the NCIS franchise and more.

Meanwhile, Watson, originally set to air on Mondays in the fall, is moving back to its original night, premiering its second season Sunday, March 1 at 10 p.m. It follows Tracker, which shifts to a new 9 p.m. timeslot. The series premiere of Y: Marshals kicks off the night at 8 p.m.

New true-crime series Harlan Coben’s Final Twist debuts Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 10 p.m., and new series America’s Culinary Cup, hosted by Padma Lakshmi, premieres Wednesday, March 4 at 9:30 p.m.

CBS’ planned year-long celebration of Survivor‘s 50th anniversary will kick off with a special two-week programming event featuring 10 encore episodes from the show’s history, showcasing players from the S50 cast, leading up to the Survivor 50 three-hour premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 25 from 8-11 p.m.

The encore episodes will air Monday Feb. 9 and Tuesday Feb. 10 (8-9 p.m.); Wednesday Feb. 11 and Thursday Feb. 12 (8-10 p.m.) Friday, Feb. 13, Monday, Feb. 16 and Tuesday, Feb. 17 (8-9 p.m.) and Wednesday, Feb. 18 through Friday Feb. 20 (8-9:30 p.m.)

2026 MIDSEASON SCHEDULE:
All times below Eastern/Pacific unless noted; programs also available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.

Sunday, March 1
7-8 p.m. — 60 MINUTES
8-9 p.m. — Y:MARSHALS (series premiere)
9-10 p.m. — TRACKER (new time period)
10-11 p.m. WATSON (new night and time period)

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Yellowstone spinoff series Y: Marshals has rounded out the main cast, with three more cast members of Taylor Sheridan’s mothership series, Gil Birmingham, Brecken Merrill and Mo Brings Plenty, joining Luke Grimes as series regulars.

Additionally, Arielle Kebbel (Rescue: HI-Surf), Ash Santos (Pulse) and Tatanka Means (Reservation Dogs) have been cast as series regulars and Brett Cullen as recurring in the offshoot, joining star Grimes and previously cast fellow lead Logan Marshall-Green.

In Y: Marshals, with the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Kayce Dutton (Grimes) joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence.

Merrill will reprise his role as Kayce’s son, Tate Dutton, with Birmingham and Mo Brings Plenty reprising their Yellowstone characters as Thomas Rainwater and Mo, respectively. MIA from the new series is Kelsey Asbille, who played Kayce’s wife and Tate’s mom Monica on the mothership. Her absence will likely be explained.

Kebbel, Santos and Means will plays Belle, Andrea and Miles, respectively — all members of the U.S. Marshals. Cullen plays Harry Gifford, the head of the U.S. Marshals in Montana.

The series is produced by Paramount TV Studios, with Sheridan executive producing along with David C. Glasser for 101 Studios as well as Hudnut, who serves as showrunner, Grimes, Yaitanes, John Linson, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Michael Friedman and Keith Cox. Y: Marshals will be distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

Kebbel, who most recently starred in Fox’s Rescue: HI-Surf, will be seen in I Can Only Imagine 2, coming out in 2026. She is repped by Independent Artists Group, Untitled Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson Teller.

Santos is coming off Netflix’s medical drama Pulse. She is part of the Taylor Sheridan universe with her recurring role on Mayor of Kingstown. She is repped by M88, Gersh and Myman Greenspan Fox.

Veteran Cullen can be seen in the golf film The Long Game and the Netflix series Ransom Canyon. He is repped by Innovative Artists and Lovett Management.

Means, whose recent credits include Killers of the Flower Moon, Reservation Dogs, Echo, Horizon: An American Saga and Ransom Canyon, is repped by Amsel, Eisenstadt, Frazier & Hinojosa Inc., and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

Birmingham’s recent credits also include Poker Face. He is repped by Amsel, Eisenstadt, Frazier & Hinojosa.

Merrill, also seen in the indie Lifeline and on NBC’s This is Us, is repped by Industry Entertainment, Paloma Model & Talent and Jared Bloch | Bloch Law.

Playboy John Tucker would get his “karmic retribution” if a sequel got the green light.

Over a year after teasing its existence, Jesse Metcalfe says he’s read the script for the John Tucker Must Die sequel. And no, it doesn’t seem like John Tucker has returned to his womanizing ways.

Instead, Metcalfe revealed that the infamous heartthrob would be getting his “karmic retribution” by having to witness his teen daughter deal with “a bunch of John Tuckers.”

On the most recent episode of Tori Spelling’s MisSPELLING podcast, the Desperate Housewives actor shared that the script is finished and sitting at 20th Century Fox. However, he admitted that the sequel seems unlikely.

“I’d say it’s probably not gonna happen,” Metcalfe said. “They’ve been sitting on the script for a while. Everyone in the cast said they’d participate and it just hasn’t happened.”

The original 2006 film follows Heather (Ashanti), Beth (Sophia Bush) and Carrie (Arielle Kebbel), high school queen bees from different cliques who enlist the help of new girl Kate (Brittany Snow) to enact revenge on their shared lover John Tucker (Metcalfe).

Metcalfe, Bush, and Kebbel first shared news of a John Tucker sequel last year. While the costars had said the original cast would be involved, Snow and Penn Badgley, who plays John’s brother Scott, later said they hadn’t gotten a call to join the project. Although if Metcalfe’s recent comments are any indication, neither has anyone else.

Metcalfe shared one more detail about the sequel’s script, which was that John would be coaching the girls basketball team at his daughter’s high school.

“That’s the broad premise without ruining a movie that’s not even greenlit yet,” Metcalfe said.

It’s low tide for Rescue HI-Surf as Fox has opted not to renew the freshman drama from producer John Wells for a second season. The news will come as a blow to diehard fans of the Hawaiian lifeguard series who have been showing their support by voting en masse in various Save the Show polls where Rescue HI-Surf has been ranking high. There are no plans for the show to be shopped by producing studio Warner Bros. Television, sources said.

The cancellation comes more than a month after Rescue HI-Surf‘s Season 1 finale, which aired March 31, and a year after Fox revealed its big expectations for the series last spring — giving it a very early seven-episode back order and assigning it the post-Super Bowl slot. That was soon followed by a special Sunday series premiere date behind an NFL double-header.

Rescue HI-Surf developed a loyal following but, possibly hurt by the fact that there is no well known, promotable star in the cast, it was not a breakout the way fellow freshman Fox drama Doc was, earning an early 22-episode renewal. That is despite the strong sampling for the Rescue HI-Surf premiere, which, boosted by the football lead-in, drew 4.7 million Live+Same Day viewers.

The first red flag came in November, two months into Rescue HI-Surf‘s run, when Fox did a very rare last-minute switch of its Super Bowl lead-out program, replacing the freshman drama with the Season 3 premiere of game show The Floor.

Because the decision came so late, the special Super Bowl episode of Rescue HI-Surf had already been filmed; it aired as a regular episode the following Monday after promotion during the big game. There was no post-Super Bowl bump, and the first responders drama wrapped its freshman season with steady but modest ratings, drawing 1.4 million L+SD viewers for the finale. The linear delivery was somewhat offset by Rescue HI-Surf’s streaming performance on Hulu but it ultimately wasn’t strong enough to secure a pickup.

Even with the modest ratings, Rescue HI-Surf was seriously considered for a renewal, in large part because of Wells’ involvement in the show, co-produced by Warner Bros. TV, where his John Wells Production is based, and Fox Entertainment Studios. The prolific producer is behind such popular series as ER, The West Wing, Maid and The Pitt.

While it fits in Fox’s $3M-$4M-an-episode model, Rescue HI-Surf is believed to be at the high end of the range and among the network’s more expensive drama series — despite no big stars in the cast — because it films in Hawaii. The pricey location gives the series its lush look and feel which, along with the characters, has been a main draw for its devoted fans.

Fox’s planned Baywatch reboot is not believed to have played a significant part in deciding Rescue HI-Surf‘s fate as Fox had been considering running both series simultaneously, one in-season, one during the summer. (Baywatch has not been greenlighted yet but has been looking good.)

Fortunately for fans, Rescue HI-Surf did not end its first season on a massive cliffhanger. The finale saw Will (Adam Demos) heading back to Australia, though he did tell Em (Arielle Kebbel) he would be back, and the series’ creator Matt Kester confirmed to TV Insider at the time that Will was expected to return should the show get renewed.

Rescue HI-Surf follows the personal and professional lives of the heavy-water lifeguards who patrol and protect the North Shore of O’ahu — the most famous and dangerous stretch of coastline in the world.

In addition to Demos and Kebbel, the series starred Robbie Magasiva, Kekoa Kekumano, Alex Aiono and Zoe Cipres.

Kester created the series and served as executive producer and showrunner. Wells, who directed the first two episodes, executive produced through John Wells Productions along with JWP’s Erin Jontow. Daniele Nathanson also served as an executive producer.

The romance from The Vampire Diaries is living forever.

Arielle Kebbel and Zach Roerig, who starred as vampire Lexi Branson and human boy-next-door Matt Donovan on the supernatural show, appeared to confirm their romance at a fan convention held in Covington, Ga. The Georgia town served as the location for the popular CW show’s fictional Mystic Falls setting.

Roerig and Kebbel, both 40, briefly shared screen time during The Vampire Diaries’ first season in 2009 and final season in 2017. A fan captured a video dated April 6 from Epic Cons’ I Was Feeling Epic 3 that showed Roerig bringing Kebbel a bouquet of flowers before the couple shared a kiss.

The fan’s video was captioned, “I love a couple 🥹 ❤️ The ultimate romantic,” to which the actress responded “❤️❤️❤️.” PEOPLE reached out to representatives for Kebbel and Roerig.

The pair previously reunited when filming the Hallmark Channel film Love in the Great Smoky Mountains: A National Park Romance in 2023. In The Vampire Diaries world, Kebbel’s character was a longtime vampire friend of Stefan Salvatore’s (Paul Wesley), who helped him control his blood cravings. Roerig’s character was Elena Gilbert’s (Nina Dobrev) first love, and one of the only humans in the know about the supernatural activity in Mystic Falls.

Roerig and Kebbel are not the first romantic Vampire Diaries reunion. In December 2023, Candice King confirmed her relationship with former Vampire Diaries’ spinoff Originals star Steven Krueger. The couple’s relationship began after King’s 2022 divorce from The Fray guitarist Joe King, whom she married in New Orleans in 2014.

Kebbel famously starred in the 2006 romantic dramedy John Tucker Must Die, and currently stars in the Fox series Rescue: HI Surf.

Roerig appears in the upcoming Netflix series The Waterfront, which was written and produced by TVD creator, writer and executive producer Kevin Williamson. The show debuts on June 19.