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08-05-2025
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After CBS' Latest Cancellation, Watson Showrunner And Star Talk Getting Renewed And Hype The 'Massive' Two-Part Finale
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The end is nigh for the first season of CBS' Watson, and the stakes are as high as they've ever been for John and Co. in the 2025 TV schedule. While there's plenty for fans to worry about with Moriarty coming face-to-face with Watson, there's one thing nobody needs to stress over: whether the doctor/detective show will be cancelled like The Equalizer was just days before its own finale. When I spoke with showrunner Craig Sweeny and actor Peter Mark Kendall, they shared their thoughts on their show's Season 2 renewal and why the finale case needs two parts. The two-part Watson finale kicks off on Sunday, May 4 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS (and streams next day with a Paramount+ subscription) with the first episode, called "Your Life's Work, Part 1." Per the network's logline, part of the team will fall ill after being targeted as part of a sinister plot, and I'd say that the first eleven episodes of the season are enough to guess that Moriarty is behind the plot. (Plus, that promo!) In light of the cancellation of The Equalizer, which is one of Watson's primetime partners on Sunday nights, there's more to celebrate than ever with Morris Chestnut's drama getting an early renewal. When I spoke with creator/showrunner Craig Sweeny, who came to Watson with experience in network TV renewals/cancellations after producing on shows like Medium and Elementary, weighed in: It's great! Unambiguously, just great. 10 out of 10. [laughs] No, complaints. As you say, I'm lucky to have been doing this for a minute now.... The 4400 went four seasons, and Medium went seven seasons, and Elementary went seven seasons. I wasn't on all those shows for all the seasons, but I began just kind of assuming that, yeah, you do one season and then you make another one, and subsequent events have shown that that is not always the case. I just couldn't be happier. I love this world, these characters. I feel really lucky to write the show. I'm just so excited we have a second season order. The executive producer of course isn't the only one at the show who has reason to celebrate the guarantee of another season, with Eve Harlow and Rochelle Aytes sharing their reactions to the good news earlier this season. When I spoke with Peter Mark Kendall, who plays double duty on Watson as twins Adam and Stephens Croft, he explained: It's such a strange thing making a show and then having a hiatus, especially when it's a show that is so dear and so beloved by so many people that [you're] just kind of hoping, praying that it happens, and then finally getting that news is such a relief. It's such excitement, you know, and so many texts and phone calls would be like, 'Aaaah! Guys, we get to do this again!' So I think now it's just excitement and kind of itching to get started again. Based on the promo for the first part of the finale, one of the Croft twins doesn't appear to be in the best shape, although it's impossible to say which one. After all, Stephens' glasses are usually the best giveaway, but nobody needs to wear spectacles when they're seemingly unconscious in a hospital bed! Paramount Plus: from $7.99 a month/$79.99 a yearHome to CBS TV shows like Watson, subscribe to Paramount Plus. Opt for its Essential plan or go ad-free and get double the catalog with Showtime through the Premium plan from $12.99 a month. Alternatively, get 12 months for the price of 10 with its annual Deal Watson doesn't often delve into crises that affect the characters' health personally, but it certainly looks like one (or both) of the Croft twins are in for a ride! And this time, it'll be a ride that takes two hours of television. When I asked Craig Sweeny what about the case of "Your Life's Work" needs a two-parter, he previewed: Of all the two partners I've done, none demands two parts more than more than this one, I would say, because it's a big case procedurally in that it pays off the storyline of what Moriarty has been doing with the clinic, and it pays it off in a scientifically accurate but also very scary way that feels like science fiction. It also brings all of the relationships that we've built up over the course of the season into high relief, and everybody feels tension, and some of them survive, some of the relationships survive, and some of them don't. And it also has life or death stakes for a couple of the main characters. Really, everything is on the table for a massive two part spectacle. All signs point toward Peter Mark Kendall having an eventful penultimate episode of Season 1 as both of his characters... unless the preview is pulling a fakeout about whether one of the twins is in danger! Kendall didn't specifically spoil what fans can look forward to in either half of the two-parter, but he did have his own thoughts on why this case needs back-to-back episodes: I think it's because, for the first time, part of our crew, our fellowship, we are also the patients as well as the doctors. And I think we get to see kind of vulnerability and heroism from people that we don't normally get to see that from. I think TV is always the most fun when it's life-or-death, especially for a hospital-slash-detective show. It kind of heightens the stakes and makes everything feel that much more exciting. In case you doubt those stakes with the first half of the finale quickly approaching, check out the preview of not only one of the Croft twins looking rough, but Moriarty meeting Watson and Ingrid seemingly connecting the dots about Randall Park's character: Part 1 of Watson's Season 1 finale airs on Sunday, May 4 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS, between Tracker at 8 p.m. ET and the series finale of Queen Latifah's The Equalizer at 10 p.m. ET. Part 2 of the finale airs on May 11 in the usual Watson time slot. All three shows are also available streaming on Paramount+.
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08-05-2025
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As CBS Confirms When Watson Will Return For Season 2, The Showrunner And Star Talk Getting To 'Go Bang' With The Life-Or-Death Finale
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This is an exciting time in the 2025 TV schedule to be a fan of CBS' Watson, the freshman doctor/detective drama that quickly joined Justin Hartley's Tracker as a Sunday night hit. One episode is left this spring, as the show will wrap its two-part finale on May 11 before starting summer hiatus. Well, with just days left before the second half of the finale, CBS has confirmed when Morris Chestnut's series will be back, and I'd say it puts an added twist on what showrunner Craig Sweeny and actor Peter Mark Kendall told CinemaBlend. As part of CBS' 2025-2026 schedule announcement, the network revealed that Watson will once again be absent from fall premiere season and instead arrive as a midseason premiere. If the schedule is similar to the first season, that could mean the first episode of Season 2 around late January to mid February. There's no precise date just yet, but now we officially know when to expect John Watson and his whole team of doctors back: early 2026. That is, if we assume that the entire Season 1 team of doctors makes it to Season 2! Prior to the first half of the finale two-parter, Ingrid's future at the Holmes Clinic seemed like it was the most in jeopardy after an ultimatum from Mary, but "Your Life's Work, Part 1" changed all that. Both of the Croft twins are currently approaching death's door, and the team seemingly only has the resources to save one of them. (You can stream Part 1 with a Paramount+ subscription now.) The extra note of tragedy coming out of Moriarty engineering diseases specifically to the DNA of the doctors? His target was only Adam, and Stephens is now in danger simply due to sharing DNA with his twin. (Peter Mark Kendall plays both twins.) When I spoke with the creator/showrunner, Craig Sweeny weighed in on raising the stakes so high before the second half of the two-parter: It's wonderful [to get to do]. When you get to the point of a season finale, whether it's playing out over two parts or one part, as a writer, things kind of burn along with a slow fuse. And then you get to go bang! [laughs] In this finale, we really got to go bang. So it's just great. It's both the plot mechanics of what Moriarty has been up to and the emotional through lines just all come to a climax simultaneously. It's so nice to get to write finales. 10 out of 10, would recommend. After learning why Craig Sweeny cast Randall Park as Watson's big bad and then seeing the first half of the finale, it's easy to understand why the villain's plan qualifies as – to quote the EP – "scientifically accurate but also very scary way that feels like science fiction." At this point, nobody is this scarier for on Watson than the Croft twins. I can admit that Watson successfully had me convinced that one of the twins might die in the first half, with the brothers bonding and Stephens coming up with a surprisingly lovely take on death and the first law of thermodynamics. While I was fortunately wrong that anybody was dying in Part 1, the team may be one the verge of deciding which of the two is going to have to perish. Peter Mark Kendall is in the unique position of not necessarily being killed off the show even if his character is killed, by virtue of playing both twins. Kendall explained what it was like to perform both halves of that very emotional conversation before Adam fell into a coma in the previous episode, saying: I think that what served me the best was there not being so much time to overthink it. Making TV, making a procedural on a network is so hard, just because it moves so quickly. I think the exhaustion of it and the intensity of the schedule kind of didn't allow me to overthink things. It was really, really fun to show Stephens in that moment maybe occupying a different role that he hadn't played before, as the more comforting brother who takes care of the other. So it was really, really fun to see how these characters change throughout the season, but also in this very, very intense two-episode block of how they change from from beginning to end. Whether there will be a happy end to this two-parter remains to be seen, although at least fans can count on the show itself coming back for Season 2 in the 2025-2026 TV schedule. The team has the immediate problem of the ailing Croft twins to deal with, as well as the macro threat of Moriarty out there, potentially with the means to strike any or all of them down as well. Paramount Plus: from $7.99 a month/$79.99 a yearSubscribe to Paramount Plus for the first season of Watson now. Opt for its Essential plan or go ad-free and get double the catalog with Showtime through the Premium plan from $12.99 a month. Alternatively, get 12 months for the price of 10 with its annual Deal For his part, Peter Mark Kendall didn't spoil the fates of his character(s) in the finale, but he did make sure to credit the man who has worked as his on-set double on Watson for when the brothers have scenes with each other. The actor said: We had a really great guy named Riley Orr, who is the Croft double. It's a very kind of Herculean task of learning all the lines for both, learning all the blocking, showing up to do exactly what I have to do each day, and we couldn't do it. The process doesn't work without him. It's a big task, and we had someone who was great for it. Fortunately, the wait to find out who will still be around to return for Season 2 isn't much longer. The second half of the Season 1 finale event, called "Your Life's Work, Part 2" airs on May 11 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS, and it's a safe bet that fans won't want to miss it. Just check out the promo below: As for Season 2, Watson will return to Sunday nights in early 2026, but episodes will air at 10 p.m. ET instead of 9 p.m. ET, with the Yellowstone spinoff Y: Marshals taking the earlier slot after Tracker. Watson will therefore inherit the time slot formerly held by Queen Latifah's The Equalizer, which was cancelled after five seasons just days before its season finale.
