CBS Orders Full Seasons of Stalker, Scorpion, NCIS: New Orleans, and Madam Secretary

I hope you like nerds, Mardi Gras murders, Tea Leoni, and violent perverts who fill women's bedrooms with snakes, because you're about to get a lot more of all those things. CBS donned its good news suit on Monday and ordered full seasons of all four of its freshman dramas: Scorpion, NCIS: New Orleans, Madam Secretary, and Stalker. Yep, even Stalker.

The NCIS: NOLA pickup is the least surprising of the bunch, as the show is the most-watched new show of the fall season so far. Boring though it may be, the Scott Bakula-starring procedural is averaging 18.16 million viewers on Tuesday nights, according to CBS.

Meanwhile, Scorpion has been doing well on Monday nights at 9pm after starting the season with The Big Bang Theory as its lead-in, and the show about a bunch of smart-yet-socially-challenged problem-solvers remained steady last week when The Millers debuted in the 8:30pm timeslot. On Sundays, Madam Secretary has a large, albeit older, crowd, as evidenced by its tendency to finish first or second in overall viewers for its time period, but last in the 18-to-49 demographic. And Stalker is winning its time period on Wednesdays at 10pm against weak competition, though NBC's Chicago P.D. is catching up fast.

CBS's quartet of freshman dramas joins ABC's Black-ish and How to Get Away With Murder, The CW's The Flash and Jane the Virgin, and Fox's Gotham on the list of new fall shows that've already earned full-season orders.

ABC's Manhattan Love Story is the only cancellation of the season so far.

Sorry I told y'all to pick Stalker in your Dead Pools. I figured a show that infuriated lots of people would get canceled quickly, but I underestimated the power of shock violence on procedurals. My bad!