CBS’ hit FBI sequence is planning to increase with its upcoming offshoot CIA, which has been coping with a number of exits and a attainable recasting.
FBI debuted on CBS in 2019 and follows the brokers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York Metropolis. The community adopted that up with FBI: Most Needed, which aired from 2020 to 2025, concerning the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Fugitive Process Pressure. There was additionally the FBI: Worldwide spinoff concerning the Worldwide Fly Workforce that ran for 4 seasons earlier than concluding in 2025.
In April 2025, CBS gave CIA a straight-to-series order starring Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss. In response to the official synopsis, CIA facilities on “two unlikely companions — a fast-talking, rule-breaking unfastened cannon CIA case officer and a by-the-book, seasoned and good FBI agent who believes within the rule of legislation.”
The outline continued: “When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they need to be taught to work collectively to analyze instances and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, discovering that their variations may very well be their power.”
After rounding out the solid, CIA initially confronted a showrunner change earlier than dropping certainly one of its leads. Hold scrolling for a breakdown of the onscreen — and offscreen — shifts forward of CIA‘s premiere on CBS:
The Key Gamers
FBI, which premiered in 2018, facilities on the inside workings of the New York Metropolis subject workplace felony division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the place the brokers work to make sure the security of New York Metropolis and its residents.
The police procedural at the moment stars Zeeko Zaki, Missy Peregrym, Jeremy Sisto, John Boyd and Alana De La Garza. After discovering success on CBS, FBI expanded with FBI: Most Needed and FBI: Worldwide, which have each come to an finish.
The Gist
Zeeko Zaki and Missy Peregrym on ‘FBI.’ Bennett Raglin/CBS
CBS introduced in April that CIA, which can dwell in the identical universe as Dick Wolf’s FBI, was greenlit for the 2025-2026 broadcast season.
Initially deliberate for a fall 2025 premiere, CIA was pushed to midseason after Warren Leight changed FBI: Most Needed‘s David Hudgins as showrunner. The adjustments saved coming when Michael Michele, who was one of many sequence’ leads, left in November 2025. Days later, Eriq La Salle left the sequence as govt producer. He was connected to CIA since its conception and directed the pilot earlier than his exit.
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What Has Been Mentioned
Whereas nobody has but to handle the shakeups, Ellis teased what FBI followers can count on from the present.
“We’re going to take what the FBI guys have arrange in that sort world,” Ellis solely informed Us Weekly in Could 2025. “We’re going to then go to it by means of the eyes of the CIA.”
He continued: “We would get just a little little bit of crossover with FBI occasionally, however in the end, that is going to be about how the CIA goes about its enterprise on homeland soil and why it’s vital that these very totally different bureaus share data with one another and the way for the larger good.”
What’s Subsequent
Zeeko Zaki and Consolation Clinton on ‘FBI.’ Bennett Raglin/CBS
Along with Ellis, CIA additionally stars Gehlfuss and Natalee Linez. Filming on the sequence began in September 2025, and manufacturing has continued with out being impacted by the departures. CIA continues to be anticipated to have a midseason premiere on CBS.
