The cancellation time of year has come for network television in the 2026 TV schedule, and CBS finally came down with news for two scripted series that weren’t named in the ten-show renewal spree back in January. Medical drama Watson and freshman comedy DMV have both been axed, and while the news comes at the very end of March, they may have been doomed for cancellation much earlier in the month.
The cancellations don’t come as huge shocks after CBS gave pretty early renewals to the rest of the scripted slate, with the exception of CIA and Marshals, with the former not premiering until late February and the latter not premiering until March 1. Watson had an uphill battle for viewers in Season 2, as the fall move to Monday nights didn’t seem to pay off despite star Morris Chestnut’s optimism, and joining Tracker and eventually Marshals on Sundays this spring evidently didn’t result in the kinds of numbers that would save it.
