CBS Moves 'Watson' Season 2's Premiere to October

The institutional collapse of a production studio that stood for over a century was never going to be pleasant, but the current situation at Paramount is particularly horrifying. After bribing a sitting president to allow her to offload her family's legacy, Shari Redstone's soon-to-be-former company has managed to make everything exponentially worse. Between courting right-wing grifters, planning to hire back people it was well rid of, and the mass cancellation of the streaming franchise that propped it up for a decade, there's not much good news coming out of Paramount+ or CBS. And that was before it pulled the plug on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

However, lost in the (entirely correct) uproar over the ending of a television institution is a surprising piece of news: Watson Season 2 will return much earlier than expected. The series was a mid-season launch for CBS in early 2025. Although it was a Sherlock Holmes series without Sherlock Holmes as the lead, the series performed exceptionally well for the network, especially when streaming on Paramount+. When the series was announced for a second season, it was clear no one wanted to mess with success, listing the series to return in the same post-New Year's slot.

(Sherlock series have been doing well in general, Sherlock & Daughter, on CBS' collapsing neighbor network, CW, was also one of the small bright spots in the 2024-2025 TV season, though it had not yet been renewed.)