'Person of Interest' Season 5 Spoilers: Will Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson Arrive Summer 2016?

Season 5 of Person of Interest will return to CBS in 2016. In the upcoming 13 episodes, do John Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) have a "summer 2016 premiere date?"

In our fourth season finale recap, the war between the Machine and Samaritan left casualties and forged new alliances in its wake. After presumed dead, Sameen Shaw (Sarah Shahi) was last seen walking away willingly with Samaritan's agents. While Samaritan was executing its master plan, Greer's men put a bag over Control (Camryn Manheim)'s head and took her hostage. In the cliff-hanger, as Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine started playing, Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) walked out, with no gun, alongside Reese (Caviezel) and Root (Amy Acker) as they started shooting down Samaritan's agents.

According to Io9, CBS released its upcoming spring 2016 schedule. Unfortunately for fans of the show, Person of Interest wasn't even on it. There are two possibilities; either CBS is waiting to air the 13 episodes during March or April. Because summer shows, such as Under the Dome and Extant, have been canceled, this could mean there's a spot open to follow-up the surprise horror hit, Zoo.

As the site explains its speculations, while waiting for confirmation, "A lot of people are assuming the latter, that Person of Interest is being turned into a summer series. (And maybe there's a chance for it to get renewed, if it does better in the summer months than Dome and Extant were.) But there's no official explanation."

We previously mentioned, the cast and crew are among this year's honorees at the People's Choice Awards. Person of Interest is nominated for Favorite TV Crime Drama and the Passion of the Christ actor has earned himself a nod too for Favorite Crime Drama TV Actor.

Don't forget to check out our MStars Interview with Michael Emerson (Finch) and executive producer Greg Plageman.

Glee actress Jane Lynch will host the People's Choice Awards on Wednesday, January 6 CBS at 9pm.

Readers, do you think Season 5 of POI will air in the summer?