Morris Chestnutis coming back to prime time.

His newCBSseriesWatsonis set to premiere on January 26 following the AFC Championship game.

The modern take follows the historic detective as he turns his attention from solving crimes to solving medical mysteries.

‘Watson’ premiere date

Morris Chestnut in CBS’s ‘Watson’Colin Bentley/CBS

Watsonis produced by CBS Studios.

Craig Sweeny wrote the premiere episode and serves as showrunner and executive producer.

Larry Teng also directed the first two episodes.

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The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.