CBS Renews 18 Shows for 2014-15 Season

NEW YORK: CBS has renewed 18 of its prime-time shows for next season, including nine dramas.

The 18 series announced join the two previous pickups, meaning that CBS has now renewed 20 returning series for the 2014-15 season.

The returning dramas include NCIS, which is TV's number one drama/scripted program for the fifth consecutive year, and NCIS: Los Angeles, the number two drama for the fourth consecutive year. CBS also renewed the time-period winners Person of Interest, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods. Criminal Minds, Elementary and The Good Wife are coming back as well.

The renewed comedies are 2 Broke Girls; The Millers, which is the number one freshman comedy of the 2013-14 season; Mike & Molly; Mom; and the long-running Two and a Half Men.

CBS is also bringing back The Amazing Race and Undercover Boss. 60 Minutes, which is TV's number one news program for more than four decades, is coming back, as is 40 Hours, which is Saturday's number one non-sports program.

“The best way to launch new shows in the fall and throughout the season is to surround them with a strong and stable lineup of successful series,” said Nina Tassler, the chairman of CBS Entertainment. “The shows we’re picking up today cut across every night of the week and feature genre leaders, time-period winners and the most-watched shows on broadcast television.”