If anybody was going to be forged as a descendant of the late, nice, and apparently very horny Albert Einstein, Matthew Grey Gubler was the proper selection. Not solely did he play a equally enigmatic genius for 15 seasons on Felony Minds, however he’s additionally type of identical to that in actual life. Earlier this yr, Gubler stopped by The A.V. Membership to speak about his illustrated e-book The Little Child With The Massive Inexperienced Hand, throughout which he quipped that “all nice manifestoes [contain]… a confused weiner canine and a sunbathing worm” and that William Shakespeare wrote Bunnicula, a kids’s sequence a couple of rabbit vampire. This sequence may be his magnum opus. 

In line with Deadline, the pilot, which brings Gubler again to CBS for the primary time since Felony Minds, is presently being known as Einstein. It hails from the identical artistic staff as Monk; Andy Breckman is credited as creator and government producer, whereas Randy Zisk will direct and government produce. The commerce describes the brand new procedural, which was tailored from a German sequence of the identical identify, as a “drama with comedic undertones.”

A synopsis of the present reads, “Good however directionless, the nice grandson of Albert Einstein (Gubler) spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor till his dangerous boy antics land him in hassle with the legislation and he’s pressed into service serving to an area police detective resolve her most puzzling instances.”

Gubler hasn’t been on the small display in plenty of years. He didn’t take part in 2022 Felony Minds spinoff, Felony Minds: Evolution, however he has had a handful of roles since departing the present, together with a recurring half on Hulu’s Dollface, which led to 2022. Whereas he’s primarily often known as a TV actor, Gubler really has much more movie credit. Lately, he appeared in motion pictures like Endings, Beginnings, Horse Woman, and King Knight, earlier than taking a short hiatus, throughout which he wrote his e-book.