‘The Mentalist’ season 7: When will the final season premiere?

Fans of “The Mentalist” certainly had a chance to celebrate earlier this month with the somewhat-surprising news that CBS had renewed the show for a seventh season. However, the show was not a part of the schedule that was announced during the upfronts, and its 13-episode conclusion is instead somewhere out there in the TV ether.

So when will it premiere? While there are no official answers yet, we can at least provide you with a little more information now to point you in the right direction based on past network trends and what CBS likes to do with many of their shows.

• One thing that you can almost certainly rule out is a premiere this fall. Unless a CBS show does so badly that it is canceled a few episodes in, the network isn’t going to squeeze in another show into a jam-packed schedule that is already scattered thanks to NFL football.
• Given that there are only 13 episodes, we cannot see the show airing them in chunks. Most likely, they will try to do an episode a week until the story is over.
• Nights that you can rule out seemingly include Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays since these lineups are pretty set in stone. Therefore, we’d feel that Mondays, Wednesdays, or Sundays are the best destinations.
• In the end, we’re likely to see the show simply take back its old night depending on how new series “Madam Secretary” fares. It will not have the 10:00 p.m. spot, though, given that “CSI” and its “CSI: Cyber” spin-off are going to be taking the place of it.

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