Gold, who also directed the HBO documentary “If You’re Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast,” about famous nonagenarians, takes a chummy approach to his depiction of Einstein’s life. He films ...

Born to Hermann Einstein (a featherbed salesman) and his wife Pauline in Ulm, Germany. Settles into a program of self-education at age 10 and begins reading as much about science as he can.

The CBS show, a pilot tentatively titled “Einstein,” is based on the German series of the same name. Matthew Gray Gubler, who for 15 seasons starred as profiler Spencer Reid in the CBS series ...

Einstein hails from CBS Studios, which co-produces Criminal Minds: Evolution. If the pilot gets picked up to series, that may pave the way for Gubler to appear as Dr. Reid in Criminal Minds ...