Criminal Minds Season 16 Gets Promising Update From Paget Brewster

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The Criminal Minds reboot gets a promising update from Paget Brewster. CBS' police procedural ran for 15 years before it ended in 2020. Created by Jeff Davis, Criminal Minds centers on the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) which uses profiling to hunt down serial killers in the U.S..

Criminal Minds had two spinoffs, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, but nothing came close to the success of the original series. Over its 15 years on the air, the show went through several cast reshuffles, including some big exits from Mandy Patinkin, Shemar Moore, and Thomas Gibson, but it thrived, proving that it was a true ensemble project. When news of its revival broke out in early 2021, fans were both ecstatic and surprised. While many of them were thrilled about the news, it was also unexpected that a reboot was already in the works not long after Criminal Minds wrapped up.

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More than a year later, Brewster, who played BAU chief, Emily Prentiss, offers an update regarding the project. In a new interview with Decider, she reveals that the Criminal Minds reboot is quietly progressing behind the scenes. There are already personnel working on pre-production and a licensing agreement is currently in the works. While no cast member has signed a contract yet, Brewster says that she is optimistic that Paramount+'s Criminal Minds revival will move forward. Read her full quote below:

So the status of Criminal Mindscoming back as a Paramount+ series… I guess it’s still a “it’ll happen when it happens” situation?

It is! And there are people who have been hired in preproduction, but none of the cast have signed their contracts yet. So I believe