Rosa Salazar will no longer lead CBS’ “Einstein” alongside Matthew Gray Gubler.
The news comes just over a week after CBS greenlit the drama series, and days after the network pushed it from the 2025-2026 television season to 2026-2027. Variety has learned that Salazar requested to be released from her option after she learned about the delay in production, and that all parties agreed to honor her wishes.
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CBS Delays Matthew Gray Gubler Drama ‘Einstein’ Until 2026-2027 TV Season
“Einstein” stars Matthew Gray Gubler as Lewis Einstein, Albert Einstein’s great grandson who, per the official logline, “spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor 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.” Lewis is described as “irreverent and misguided,” regularly missing class as his “genius and famous name weighs heavily on him.”
Salazar was set to play Veronica “Ronni” Paris, a detective inspector for the New Jersey State Police who “went into law enforcement after the death of her husband. Sharp and disciplined, Ronni demands a lot from her colleagues and even more from herself and feels conflicted about working with professor Einstein.”
“Einstein” is written by Andy Breckman and directed by Randy Zisk. Both executive produce alongside Tariq Jalil as well as Rose Hughes, Rodrigo Herrera Ibarguengoytia and Laura Beetz for Seven One Studios International. CBS Studios produces.
The series is based on a German TV movie from 2015 that later became a popular three-season series. The CBS adaptation was ordered to pilot in August of 2024.
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