‘Criminal Minds’ Matthew Gray Gubler To Headline ‘Einstein’ Pilot In Return To CBS
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Big news for Criminal Minds fans — one of the long-running series’ most popular stars, Matthew Gray Gubler, is returning to television as the lead of another CBS crime procedural, Einstein (working title).
Gubler is set to play the title role and produce the CBS Studios pilot, from the Monk team of creator/executive producer Andy Breckman and director/executive producer Randy Zisk.
Like Monk, as well as the German series Einstein is based on, the CBS procedural is a drama with comedic undertones. In it, brilliant but directionless, the great grandson of Albert Einstein (Gubler) 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.
Gubler’s Lew Einstein is a popular professor at Princeton… when he actually shows up for class. Irreverent and misguided, Lew’s genius and famous name weighs heavily on him but using his gift to help solve homicides may– finally– offer his life some direction and purpose.
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