A revival of criminal minds is back on the board at Paramount+.
Almost a year and a half after the project was first announced, the streamer has serialized the show, which will reunite cast members Joe Mantegna, Kirsten Vangsness, Adam Rodriguez, AJ Cook, Aisha Tyler and Paget Brewster. Longtime showrunner Erica Messer is also on board, although cast members Matthew Gray Gubler and Daniel Henney will not be returning.
mantegna teased the revival on Twitter Tuesday with a photo of herself on a partially finished set. “Today I did a small inspection for an upcoming project. #criminalminds,” he wrote.
Paramount+ announced the revival back in February 2021, when the streamer was still CBS All Access. It went through a long development process and lengthy negotiations with Messer and the cast, including what turned out to be premature reports that it would be scrapped.
Unlike the long-running CBS lawsuit, which typically settled cases at the end of an episode, the Paramount+ version of criminal minds will be serialized, with the BAU team working on a single case over the course of the season.
criminal minds ran for 15 seasons and 324 episodes on CBS and spawned two spin-offs, Suspicious behaviour and Across borders† The original series is consistently one of the most-watched acquired shows on Netflix, according to Nielsen; Paramount+ and Hulu also carry it.
TVLine given the green light for the new season.