Tony Cavalero, Harriet Dyer and Tim Meadows in ‘DMV’

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Take it easy today on friends and acquaintances who love CBS’ Watson or DMV. On Friday CBS announced that it was canceling both shows after just two seasons and one season, respectively.

The network cut ties with creator Craig Sweeny’s short-lived medical spin on the Sherlock Holmes novels and creator Dana Klein’s Department of Motor Vehicles workplace comedy as it recommits to shows including Marshals and George & Mandy’s First Marriage.

Waston’s series finale will air May 3 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, while DMV will conclude with a final episode on May 11 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Starring Morris Chestnut as the titular buddy of Sherlock, Watson follows the head of a medical clinic focused on rare disorders, Dr. John Watson, as he navigates new medical mysteries following the death of his best friend, Sherlock Holmes.

The show was produced by CBS Studios and debuted in January 2025 on the network. After a solid inaugural run, the show was renewed for a second season in March of 2025. Showrunner Sweeny served as an executive producer along with Chestnut, Sallie Patrick, Teng, Shäron Moalem, Brian Morewitz and Aaron Kaplan. The latest season two episode, “Wrongful Life,” saw 3.1 million live plus same day viewers, per Nielsen figures.

DMV starred Harriet Dyer, Tim Meadows and Tony Cavalero as underpaid East Hollywood DMV workers dealing with office and personal dramas while interfacing with customers who deeply dread dealings with their workplace. DMV‘s March 16 episode “Test Drive” garnered 2.8 million viewers in its live airing.

The CBS Studios-produced show landed a series order in April 2025 and a full-season pickup later that year. Klein served as the showrunner and executive produced alongside Matt Kuhn, Aaron Kaplan, Wendi Trilling, Robyn Meisinger and Trent O’Donnell.

The cancellation news arrives after CBS announced a slew of renewals for its 2026-2027 season. In addition to Marshals and George & Mandy’s First Marriage, the network has renewed CIA, Tracker, Matlock, Elsbeth, Fire Country, NCIS, NCIS: Origins, NCIS Sydney, Boston Blue, Sheriff Country, FBI, Ghosts, Survivor and The Amazing Race.

CBS has also greenlit two new series. The Silicon Valley drama Cupertino from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King will see a lawyer (Mike Colter) take on Silicon Valley behemoths. The procedural Einstein from creator Andy Breckman will star Matthew Gray Gubler as the famed physicist’s “brilliant but directionless” grandson, who after a brush with the law is forced to team up with a detective on her cases.

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