CBS’ new “Magnum P.I.” features a leading man with a goatee, but it sounds like star Jay Hernandez might shave off the chin-hair portion for Episode 2.

“We’re doing an homage to the mustache at some point,” Hernandez (pictured above) told a roomful of reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Association press tour.

Executive producer Peter Lenkov clarified that the nod will come in the freshman season’s second episode. Neither elaborated on the exact nature of the tip of the (Detroit Tigers) cap to original star Tom Selleck’s signature facial hair.

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“I think trying to clone Tom Selleck, trying to do that ‘Magnum,’ is a slippery slope,” Lenkov said on why the mustache will be a fleeting acknowledgement as opposed to a job requirement.

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