'Criminal Minds' Resurrected by Paramount Plus With Original Cast
etonline.coma 15-season run on CBS, formally greenlighting the revival series on Thursday.Original cast members Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster will return to reprise their characters.
Showrunner Erica Messer, who oversaw the flagship series, will return to run the new iteration. Notably missing among the returning cast are Matthew Gray Gubler and Daniel Henney, the latter of whom currently stars in Amazon Prime Video's .In the new , the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers.
Now, as the world opens back up, the network goes operational and our team must hunt them down, one murder at a time.“For 15 seasons,was at the forefront of cutting-edge scripted drama as it explored the psychology behind crime – thrillingly,” said Nicole Clemens, President of Paramount+ Original Scripted Series. “The series never stopped evolving during its run, and we are beyond excited to bring it back into a new era with new stories for a new generation of viewers at Paramount+.
Erica, the whole cast and creative team are building a season full of new twists that we are sure will electrify audiences.”Messer will serve as showrunner, executive producer and writer, while Breen Frazier and Chris Barbour will join as writers and EPs.
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