CBS Announces Post-Strike Return Dates

CBS has set return dates for 14 prime-time series, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men. The network set the dates as Hollywood writers returned to work Wednesday after a three-month strike. How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory will return March 17. Producers will make nine new episodes before the season ends. CSI: Miami and Cold Case will return in late March. Others are set for early April returns, including CSI on April 3.

How I Met Your Mother, March 17, with new 9 episodes
The Big Bang Theory, March 17, with new 9 episodes
Two and a Half Men, March 17, with new 9 episodes
CSI: Miami, March 24, with new 8 episodes
Cold Case, March 30, with new 5 episodes
Criminal Minds, April 2, with new 7 episodes
CSI: NY, April 2, with new 7 episodes
CSI, April 3, with new 6 episodes
Without a Trace, April 3, with new 6 episodes
Ghost Whisperer, April 4, with new 6 episodes
Numb3rs, April 4, with new 6 episodes
NCIS, April 8, with new 7 episodes
Moonlight, April 11, with new 4 episodes
Rules of Engagement, April 14, with new 6 episodes