CBS is shaking the table ahead of the 2025–26 season, canceling several series—including Poppa’s House, the Damon Wayans-led comedy—and making room for fresh new titles, including a new spinoff in the FBI universe: CIA starring Tom Ellis.
Let’s start with what’s not coming back.
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The show followed Wayans Sr. as a legendary talk radio host navigating a new co-host (played by Essence Atkins) and the realities of still parenting his adult son (Wayans Jr.), a dreamer trying to juggle passion and fatherhood. Tetona Jackson and Atkins rounded out the main cast. Poppa’s House was CBS’s only freshman scripted show to get the axe this season.
After just one season, Poppa’s House has officially been canceled. The comedy, which brought Damon Wayans and his son Damon Wayans Jr. together on-screen for the first time as leads, won’t be returning despite a full-season pickup last fall and solid viewership. CBS reportedly asked for a budget trim to help the show’s renewal chances, but ultimately passed in favor of new comedy DMV.
But the cancellation news didn’t stop there. CBS also confirmed that The Summit—a reality competition that dropped 16 strangers in the New Zealand Alps—won’t be returning, nor will FBI: International and FBI: Most Wanted, which we announced were canceled back in March.
Now, here’s what is coming to your screens soon.
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CBS is expanding its FBI universe with CIA, a straight-to-series drama set in the same world but shifting its focus to the Central Intelligence Agency. Lucifer and Miranda alum Tom Ellis leads the new show as a fast-talking, rule-breaking CIA case officer who’s forced to team up with a by-the-book FBI agent. Together, the odd couple will tackle national security threats stateside—and probably butt heads along the way.
While CIA was originally meant to be a planted backdoor pilot inside FBI, CBS and producers instead opted for a standalone straight-to-series order. The show comes from Dick Wolf and FBI: Most Wanted showrunner David Hudgins, with Universal Television, Wolf Entertainment, and CBS Studios producing.
The series joins a growing slate of franchise spinoffs at CBS. CIA will air alongside newly ordered shows like Boston Blue (from the Blue Bloods universe), Sheriff Country (from the Fire Country world), and a The Neighborhood spinoff featuring Marcel Spears and Sheaun McKinney. Not to mention the planned Equalizer spinoff starring Titus Welliver and Juani Feliz.
Back to Ellis: he’s continuing his streak of genre-bending roles following Lucifer and Hulu’s Tell Me Lies, and he’ll also star opposite Sterling K. Brown in Washington Black. The rest of the CIA cast has yet to be announced.
As for Poppa’s House, its short run marked a meaningful moment of legacy casting—seeing two generations of the Wayans family lead a sitcom together was something TV hadn’t really done before. It may not have had the ratings to stay, but it left its mark.
CBS is clearly in a transitional phase—clearing out what didn’t work and doubling down on its existing IP, hoping these new spin-offs and fresh comedies like DMV will strike a chord.
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