New detective series Einstein, starring Matthew Gray Gubler as Albert Einstein’s crime-solving illegitimate great grandson, will premiere on CBS next year in mid-season..
Production moved from Toronto — where the pilot was shot in early 2025 — to Montreal to shoot the series.
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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 (Melissa Fumero) solve her most puzzling cases.
CBS picked up Einstein to series in the Spring of 2025 but decided to delay the launch of the show a season 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 cost Einstein its female lead Rosa Salazar, who played the local police detective in the pilot.
Melissa Fumero replaced Salzar as the local detective.
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..
Einstein -Season One
Montreal filming dates: March 23 2026 – August 13, 2026.
Showrunner: Andy Breckman
Cast: Matthew Gray Gubler, Melissa Fumero.
Producers: Matthew Gray Gubler, Andy Breckman, CBS Studios.