Why is the new CBS detective series Einstein, starring Matthew Gray Gubler as Albert Einstein’s crime-solving great grandson, .pushed a year to the 2026-2067 season?
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Lew Einstein (Matthew Gray Gubler), the brilliant but directionless great grandson of Albert Einstein spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor at Princeton until his bad boy antics land him in trouble with the law and he is pressed into service helping a local police detective solve her most puzzling cases.
The pilot shot in Toronto earlier this year and CBS picked up Einstein to series in mid-April.
A week later, CBS decided that it would be better to delay the launch of the show a year to give it more time for development, like it did with Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country — i.e. more scripts banked, more efficiencies in production and scheduling and more time to promote the new show.
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But the delay reportedly cost Einstein its female lead Rosa Salazar, who played the local police detective in the Toronto-shot pilot. Salazar asked that her option not be picked up and her role will be recast.
The CBS procedural-with-a-twist is adapted from the German series Einstein starring Tom Beck.
Monk creator Andy Breckman serves as showrunner and fellow Monk alum Randy Zisk directed the pilot in Toronto..