Warning: spoilers are ahead for the series premiere of The Road in the 2025 TV schedule on CBS, available streaming next day with a Paramount+ subscription.
Country music has come to CBS in a big way this fall with The Road, a music competition show that already set itself apart from series like NBC's The Voice and ABC's American Idol. Following country superstar Keith Urban's tour and featuring Blake Shelton as an on-screen executive producer and Grammy-winner Gretchen Wilson as Tour Manager, The Road showcases twelve singers who are hoping to make it big in country music. That is, it showcased twelve singers until the first elimination, and the premiere sold me on why Wilson described Urban as a "force to be reckoned with" in an interview with CinemaBlend.
