{"id":370230,"date":"2026-03-06T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/370230\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:12:07","slug":"melissa-fumero-joins-cbs-dramedy-einstein-with-matthew-gray-gubler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/370230\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Fumero Joins CBS Dramedy &#8216;Einstein&#8217; With Matthew Gray Gubler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/melissa-fumero\/\" id=\"auto-tag_melissa-fumero\" data-tag=\"melissa-fumero\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Fumero<\/a> has joined the CBS original dramedy \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/einstein\/\" id=\"auto-tag_einstein\" data-tag=\"einstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Einstein<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine\u201d and \u201cGrosse Pointe Garden Society\u201d alum will star opposite Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Lewis Einstein, the brilliant but directionless great-grandson of Albert Einstein. Per the series logline, Lewis 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFumero will play Teri, the aforementioned detective inspector for the New Jersey state police. \u201cSharp and disciplined, Teri demands a lot from her colleagues and even more from herself, and feels conflicted about working with Professor Einstein,\u201d according to the character description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe series begins production this month and will air as part of CBS\u2019 2026-2027 broadcast season. \u201cEinstein\u201d is described by the network as a \u201cdrama with comedic undertones.\u201d The project was first ordered as a pilot in August 2024 and was initially slated for the 2025-2026 season before it was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/cbs-matthew-gray-gubler-drama-einstein-pushed-fall-2026-1236382197\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">punted a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tExecutive producers include Andy Breckman, Randy Zisk, Michael Rauch, Tariq Jalil, Rose Hughes, Rodrigo Herrera Ibarguengoytia and Laura Beetz.\u00a0Gubler serves as a producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFumero is best known for playing Detective Amy Santiago on Fox\u2019s \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine\u201d opposite Andy Samberg. The series garnered a Golden Globe win and 11 Emmy nominations \u2014 and it even survived an initial cancellation after fans led a campaign to get the show back on the air. Fumero\u2019s additional credits include NBC\u2019s \u201cGrosse Pointe Garden Society,\u201d Netflix\u2019s \u201cBlockbuster\u201d and the upcoming thriller \u201cRed Dirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFumero is represented by United Talent Agency, Corner Booth Entertainment and The Lede Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa Fumero has joined the CBS original dramedy \u201cEinstein.\u201d The \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine\u201d and \u201cGrosse Pointe Garden Society\u201d alum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[14589,18,117,19,17,171254,128],"class_list":["post-370230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-einstein","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-melissa-fumero","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116180047826379167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}