CBS‘ Thursday night lineup will be a little less haunted this fall. While Ghosts is preparing for its sixth season on the network, it was previously announced that the comedy mainstay will miss out on premiere week, instead holding off until midseason to return to Woodstone Mansion. However, it’s for a good reason. Showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman are welcoming a new sitcom this fall in Eternally Yours, following a coven of vampires led by Charles (Ed Weeks) and Liz (Allegra Edwards), whose 500 years together have turned their loving union into a passionless marriage. It’s also not the only new show ready to define a transformed evening of entertainment.
With the Kathy Bates-led hit Matlock being held for midseason as well, the stage is set for Cupertino to shine. The latest series from The Good Wife creators Michelle and Robert King reunites the creative powerhouses with regular collaborator Mike Colter, who is the David in a “David vs. Goliath” legal drama after being fired without cause from his position with a Silicon Valley start-up to cheat him out of his lucrative stock options. Determined to help others fight back against towering tech giants, he opens a firm with another aggrieved lawyer, played by Rachel Keller, beginning a high-stakes legal battle with the power players in the industry. CBS revealed back in April that the series would close out Thursday nights in the fall at 10 PM ET, following the Kings’ other series, Elsbeth. Until Monday, however, an exact date for all these series was not confirmed.
The network has now finally unveiled its full schedule for the fall, confirming that Thursday night programming would kick off on October 8. Continuing to lead off the night will be the ever-popular Young Sheldon spin-off, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage at 8 PM, picking up from a cliffhanger finale that saw Mandy’s (Emily Osment) brother Connor (Dougie Baldwin) getting arrested. Eternally Yours will pair up with it in the 8:30 PM slot, followed by the double dose of the Kings between Elsbeth and Cupertino. The night accounts for two of the three new shows CBS will be debuting this fall, joining the latest NCIS branch, NCIS: New York, which premieres on Tuesday, October 6.
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
03
What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
04
You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
06
How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
‘Ghosts’ Won’t Be Entirely Absent From CBS This Fall
While Port and Wiseman will give the spotlight to their new supernatural ensemble, Ghosts will still make an appearance on CBS later this year. Two new two-part specials following the Arondekars and the ghostly inhabitants of their bed-and-breakfast will cover Halloween and Christmas on October 29 and December 10, respectively, keeping up the show’s holiday season tradition. The stars and showrunners recently teased both during a San Diego Comic-Con panel moderated by Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, revealing that the series’ first supersized take on the spookiest day of the year will introduce Hetty’s sister Margaret, while their latest Christmas special will send up the seasonal classic that is Die Hard. How they will address the Season 5 cliffhanger, with Pete (Richie Moriarty) disappearing and a time jump since, remains to be seen.
CBS’ Thursday night lineup returns to television on October 8. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on all the network’s series, new and old, airing this fall.
Release Date
February 29, 2024
Directors
Nancy Hower, Robert King, Lionel Coleman, Rob Hardy, Robin Givens, Ron Underwood, Rosemary Rodriguez, Aisha Tyler, Bille Woodruff, James Whitmore Jr., Joe Menendez, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Lily Mariye, Nick Gomez, Peter Sollett, Sam Hoffman, Tyne Rafaeli, Darren Grant, Fong-Yee Yap, Mary Lou Belli
Writers
Jonathan Tolins, Erica Shelton Kodish, Bryan Goluboff, Sarah Beckett, Michelle King
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