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CBS Winter TV Schedule 2025: Here's When NCIS, Ghosts, and Tracker Return
Plus: Morris Chestnut is back on TV as Dr. John Watson
William McInnes, Tuuli Narkle, Todd Lasance, Olivia Swann, Sean Sagar, and Mavournee Hazel, NCIS: Sydney
Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+CBS is using one of the most powerful forces in entertainment — NFL football — to help launch its winter TV schedule, holding the returns of its biggest shows until after the network airs the AFC Championship game on Sunday, Jan. 26. Expect a LOT of commercials for CBS shows during the broadcast, especially ones for the new series Watson, which premieres immediately following the game.
Watson stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson — yes, the same Watson who palled around with Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novels. In this reimagining, Watson has opened up a clinic for rare and unusual diseases in Pittsburgh following the death of Holmes, but must also do battle with Moriarty. Though it comes from the same team as the Sherlock Holmes reimagining Elementary, which ran on CBS from 2012 to 2019, Watson is not connected to it. Watson returns for its second episode on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 9/8c in its regular time slot.
In the week following the AFC Championship game, NCIS, Ghosts, Matlock, Tracker, FBI and its spin-offs, and more return. Other notable premieres include Season 2 of NCIS: Sydney on Jan. 31, Season 48 of Survivor on Feb. 26, and Season 37 of The Amazing Race on March 5.
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Check out the full CBS winter TV schedule below. New shows are in bold. All times listed in Eastern Time.
CBS winter TV 2025 premiere dates
Morris Chestnut, Watson
CBSWednesday, Jan. 8
8 p.m.: The Price Is Right at Night (New time period premiere)
9 p.m.: Raid the Cage (Season 2 premiere)
10 p.m.: CBS drama encores
Thursday, Jan. 9
8 p.m.: Hollywood Squares (Series premiere; moves to Wednesdays at 10 p.m. starting Jan. 29)
9 p.m.: Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (Encores)
9:30 p.m.: Ghosts (Encores)
10 p.m.: CBS drama encores
Sunday, Jan. 26
6:30 p.m. ET (approx.): AFC Championship Game
10 p.m. ET (approx.): Watson (Series premiere)
Monday, Jan. 27
8 p.m.: The Neighborhood
8:30 p.m.: Poppa's House
9 p.m.: NCIS
10 p.m.: NCIS: Origins
Tuesday, Jan. 28
8 p.m.: FBI
9 p.m.: FBI: International
10 p.m.: FBI: Most Wanted
Wednesday, Jan. 29
8 p.m.: The Price Is Right at Night
9 p.m.: Raid the Cage
10 p.m.: Hollywood Squares (New time period premiere)
Thursday, Jan. 30
8 p.m.: Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage
8:30 p.m.: Ghosts
9 p.m.: Matlock
10 p.m.: Elsbeth
Friday, Jan. 31
8 p.m.: NCIS: Sydney (Season 2 premiere)
9 p.m.: Fire Country
10 p.m.: S.W.A.T. (New time period premiere)
Sunday, Feb. 2
7 p.m. ET: 60 Minutes (Original)
8 p.m. ET: Grammy Awards
Wednesday, Feb. 5
8 p.m.: The Price Is Right at Night
9 p.m.: Super Bowl Greatest Commercials
10 p.m.: Hollywood Squares
Sunday, Feb. 16
7 p.m.: 60 Minutes
8 p.m.: Tracker
9 p.m.: Watson (Episode 2, regular time period premiere)
10 p.m.: The Equalizer (New time period premiere)
Wednesday, Feb. 26
8 p.m.: Survivor (Season 48 premiere, two hours)
10 p.m.: Hollywood Squares (Original)
Wednesday, March 5
8 p.m.: Survivor (90-minute episodes)
9:30 p.m.: The Amazing Race (Season 37 premiere, 90-minute episodes)