Paramount+ has announced a Thanksgiving Day (November 24th) premiere for the ten-episode “Criminal Minds: Evolution” revival.
The first two episodes will release on November 24th and run through to December 15th with a mid-season finale. The season will then return on Thursday, January 12th with all-new episodes dropping weekly through the finale on Thursday, February 9th.
Speaking at the shows virtual Television Critics Association panel today, showrunner Erica Messer says the two absent series regular characters – Matthew Gray Gubler’s Spencer Reid and Daniel Henney’s Matthew Simmons – aren’t being written out of the series.
Messer says: “It’s a little bit more of a mystery what Reid and Simmons are up to. They’re certainly not forgotten. Their desks are still there, still have stuff on it. We’re definitely playing that. They are not gone gone.”
She adds that she hopes more stars from the original series “will be able to come back and play at some point” in the series. The original show aired across 15 seasons from 2005 to 2020.
Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster are set to return for the revival while Zach Gilford has been cast in a season-long recurring role as a serial killer.
Source: TV Line
