Claim: Hawaii Five-0 is a TV series.

Hawaii Five-0 is an American action police procedural television series , which premiered on Monday , September 20 , 2010 on CBS . The series is a reboot of the original series , which aired on CBS from 1968 to 1980 . Like the original , it follows an elite state police task force set up to fight crime in the state of Hawaii .   The series is produced by K/O Paper Products and 101st Street Television in association with CBS Productions , originally an in-name-only unit of but folded into CBS Television Studios , which has produced the series since the beginning of season three . On March 25 , 2016 , CBS renewed the series for a seventh season , which premiered on September 23 , 2016 .   On March 23 , 2017 , CBS renewed the series for an eighth season .