CBS is including to its already intensive listing of collection renewals for the 2024-25 season.
The newest pickup for the community is Elsbeth, the Columbo-esque Good Spouse offshoot starring Carrie Preston because the title character, lawyer-turned-investigator Elsbeth Tascioni. The collection has carried out effectively over its first few episodes, rating because the second most watched newcomer on the published networks this season (behind fellow CBS present Tracker). It averages about 11 million viewers over 5 weeks of viewing on all platforms (CBS, Paramount+ and CBS TV apps).
“Elsbeth has charmed audiences with its singular mix of pleasant humor, distinctive ‘how-done-it’ storytelling, and the creative, good quirkiness of Elsbeth Tascioni,” mentioned CBS Leisure president Amy Reisenbach in an announcement. “Government producers Robert and Michelle King have a stellar monitor document for creating critically acclaimed collection filled with unforgettable characters and, alongside showrunner Jonathan Tolins and his writing crew, have developed an extremely entertaining and engrossing New York Metropolis-centric world for the present to discover.”
In an look on The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s High 5 podcast in March, the Kings mentioned they have been hesitant to name Elsbeth a direct spinoff of The Good Spouse, even because it acknowledges the previous of Preston’s character. “I don’t assume that is like The Avengers, the place they’re most likely residing in the identical universe however in numerous timelines,” Robert King mentioned. “It’s New York and Elsbeth does say that she was a lawyer in Chicago. However I don’t wish to by no means say by no means since you by no means know what’s going to come down the pike. You by no means know whether or not you actually wish to use Julianna Margulies as a killer or one thing.”
Michelle King added, “We’re making an attempt to stay true to the concept that Elsbeth labored as an legal professional in Chicago and moved to New York. It isn’t as if she’s had a reminiscence wipe and he or she doesn’t bear in mind anybody.”
The renewal additionally continues the Kings’ lengthy relationship with CBS and its guardian firm Paramount, which dates again to The Good Spouse’s debut in 2009. The couple’s different present collection, Evil, is slated to finish with its fourth season on Paramount+.
Elsbeth additionally stars Wendell Pierce and Carra Patterson. The Kings govt produce through their King Measurement Productions, together with Tolins, Liz Glotzer, Erica Shelton Kodish and Bryan Goluboff. CBS Studios produces the collection.
CBS has now picked up 11 of its scripted collection for the 2024-25 season, with Elsbeth becoming a member of fellow rookies Tracker and NCIS: Sydney and veteran collection Fireplace Nation, Ghosts, NCIS, The Neighborhood, SWAT and all three entries within the FBI franchise.
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