CBS unveils 2016-2017 programming slate
CBS has unveiled its 2016-2017 prime time line-up, featuring three new comedies, five new dramas and 21 returning series.
The new series will join a line-up that will finish the current season as America’s most-watched network in viewers for the 13th time in 14 years, including the last eight years straight. The Network will also finish No 1 in adults 25-54 and adults 18-49.
In 2016-2017, CBS will expand its comedy line-up, increasing the number of comedies from four to eight, compared to last autumn, and programming two two-hour blocks on Mondays and Thursdays.
The network’s new series will feature stars in comedy and drama such as Kevin James, Matt LeBlanc, Joel McHale, Michael Weatherly, Katherine Heigl, Dermot Mulroney, Laverne Cox, Dulé Hill and Bill Paxton.
The new fall comedies are: Kevin Can Wait, starring Kevin James as a newly retired police officer who faces tougher challenges at home with his wife and three kids than he ever did on the streets; Man with a Plan, starring Golden Globe Award winner Matt LeBlanc as a contractor who starts spending more time with his kids when his wife goes back to work and discovers the truth every parent eventually realises: his little angels are maniacs; and The Great Indoors, starring Joel McHale as a renowned adventure reporter for an outdoor magazine who becomes the desk-bound boss to a group of eager millennials in the publication’s digital edition.
The new fall dramas are: Bull, starring Michael Weatherly as a brilliant and charming trial consultant; the action-adventure drama MacGyver, an origin story of the classic series starring Lucas Till and George Eads; and Pure Genius, starring Dermot Mulroney and Augustus Prew in a medical drama about a Silicon Valley billionaire superstar who enlists the world’s best medical minds to work in his state-of-the-art hospital.
Two new series also set to premiere in 2016-2017 are: Training Day, a crime drama that begins 15 years after the events of the successful feature film, starring Bill Paxton as a hardened, morally ambiguous detective for the LAPD, and Justin Cornwell as a young, idealistic officer tapped to go undercover as his trainee to spy on him; and the legal drama Doubt, starring Katherine Heigl, Steven Pasquale, Dulé Hill and Laverne Cox, about an attorney who begins to fall for her charismatic client accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Michelle Clancy | 19 May 2016
CBS has unveiled its 2016-2017 prime time line-up, featuring three new comedies, five new dramas and 21 returning series.
The new series will join a line-up that will finish the current season as America’s most-watched network in viewers for the 13th time in 14 years, including the last eight years straight. The Network will also finish No 1 in adults 25-54 and adults 18-49.
In 2016-2017, CBS will expand its comedy line-up, increasing the number of comedies from four to eight, compared to last autumn, and programming two two-hour blocks on Mondays and Thursdays.
The network’s new series will feature stars in comedy and drama such as Kevin James, Matt LeBlanc, Joel McHale, Michael Weatherly, Katherine Heigl, Dermot Mulroney, Laverne Cox, Dulé Hill and Bill Paxton.
The new fall comedies are: Kevin Can Wait, starring Kevin James as a newly retired police officer who faces tougher challenges at home with his wife and three kids than he ever did on the streets; Man with a Plan, starring Golden Globe Award winner Matt LeBlanc as a contractor who starts spending more time with his kids when his wife goes back to work and discovers the truth every parent eventually realises: his little angels are maniacs; and The Great Indoors, starring Joel McHale as a renowned adventure reporter for an outdoor magazine who becomes the desk-bound boss to a group of eager millennials in the publication’s digital edition.
The new fall dramas are: Bull, starring Michael Weatherly as a brilliant and charming trial consultant; the action-adventure drama MacGyver, an origin story of the classic series starring Lucas Till and George Eads; and Pure Genius, starring Dermot Mulroney and Augustus Prew in a medical drama about a Silicon Valley billionaire superstar who enlists the world’s best medical minds to work in his state-of-the-art hospital.
Two new series also set to premiere in 2016-2017 are: Training Day, a crime drama that begins 15 years after the events of the successful feature film, starring Bill Paxton as a hardened, morally ambiguous detective for the LAPD, and Justin Cornwell as a young, idealistic officer tapped to go undercover as his trainee to spy on him; and the legal drama Doubt, starring Katherine Heigl, Steven Pasquale, Dulé Hill and Laverne Cox, about an attorney who begins to fall for her charismatic client accused of murdering his girlfriend.