{"id":900084,"date":"2026-04-18T15:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/cbs-cancels-watson-dmv-series\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:14:56","slug":"cbs-cancels-watson-dmv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/cbs-cancels-watson-dmv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Cancels \u201cWatson\u201d &#038; \u201cDMV\u201d Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdndark.darkhorizons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cbs-cancels-watson-dmv-series.jpg\" data-caption=\"CBS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/cdndark.darkhorizons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cbs-cancels-watson-dmv-series.jpg\"   alt title=\"cbs-cancels-watson-dmv-series\"><\/a><figcaption>CBS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>CBS has announced tonight that it has cancelled its shows \u201cWatson\u201d and \u201cDMV,\u201d the medical procedural ending after two seasons and the workplace comedy after a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Of the two, \u201cWatson\u201d was the more high-profile and an attempt to recapture the network\u2019s success with \u201cElementary\u201d \u2013 this time switching out a contemporary police procedural involving Sherlock Holmes with a contemporary medical procedural focusing on Dr. John Watson.<\/p>\n<p>Morris Chestnut leads the cast as the head of a medical clinic focused on rare disorders and medical mysteries, as Watson deals with the death of his best friend Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle), who disappeared over the Reichenbach Falls alongside James Moriarty (Randall Park) in the opening moments of the pilot.  Ultimately both are revealed to have survived.<\/p>\n<p>The show had a solid first season run in early 2025 but the audience didn\u2019t return much for the second season \u2013 the most recent episode pulling in 3.1 million in Live+Same Day numbers.  The show\u2019s season finale will now air on May 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Klein\u2019s Department of Motor Vehicles workplace comedy \u201cDMV\u201d starred Harriet Dyer, Tim Meadows and Tony Cavalero and will conclude with a finale on May 11th.  Its most recent episode garnered 2.8 million viewers in its live airing.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellations follow a slew of renewals for the 2026-2027 season including recent premieres like \u201cMarshals,\u201d \u201cCIA\u201d and \u201cGeorge &#038; Mandy\u2019s First Marriage\u201d along with regulars like \u201cTracker,\u201dMatlock,\u201d \u201cElsbeth,\u201d \u201cFire Country,\u201d \u201cSheriff Country,\u201d \u201cGhosts,\u201d \u201cFBI,\u201d \u201cBoston Blue,\u201d \u201cNCIS,\u201d \u201cNCIS: Origins\u201d and \u201cNCIS: Sydney\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/cbs-cancels-watson-dmv-1236549115\/\">THR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Garth Franklin<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/cbs-cancels-watson-dmv-series\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS CBS has announced tonight that it has cancelled its shows \u201cWatson\u201d and \u201cDMV,\u201d the medical procedural ending after two seasons and the workplace comedy after a single season. Of the two, \u201cWatson\u201d was the more high-profile and an attempt to recapture the network\u2019s success with \u201cElementary\u201d \u2013 this time switching out a contemporary police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[934,140],"tags":[7613,6143],"class_list":{"0":"post-900084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cancels","8":"category-watson","9":"tag-cancels","10":"tag-watson"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}