Paramount+ Renews 'Criminal Minds: Evolution' For A Second Season

TV & Film

Jan 15

The reunion of the BAU has officially been extended. Paramount+ has renewed Criminal Minds: Evolution for a second season. News broke on Thursday, its return day from its midseason and winter break with the episode “True Conviction”. More accurately, it might be that Criminal Minds has been renewed for a seventeenth season.

See, Criminal Minds: Evolution was promoted as a sequel series akin to CSI: Vegas in terms of CBS legacy procedurals, but instead. it’s been posted under Criminal Minds as season 16, with the show adopting the Evolution key art. Should the show even retain the subtitle after this season? It’s got its evolution already (following its 2005-2020 original run) in its serialization as a streaming series. The chief programming officer of Paramount Streaming, Tanya Giles loves the show and has expressed great investment in the series, with the streamer touting it as one of its top five originals. The overall franchise has seen an increase of nearly six times in month-over-month viewership. Whichever season they consider it to be, it will go into production within the just-beginning year.

This season has the BAU’s top profilers going up against Elias Voit, an UnSub who cultivated a broader network of serial killers over the course of the pandemic, making him, as he's touted “their greatest threat yet”. Played by Zach Gilford, the character was driven by an obsession with death, he was previously an operations analyst for a global cyber-security firm. It brought back Joe Mantegna as Rossi, Paget Brewster as Prentiss, A.J. Cook as JJ, Kirsten Vangsness as Garcia, Aisha Tyler as Tara and Adam Rodriguez as Luke. With four episodes left in this season, whether it's the first or sixteenth, dropping weekly, it is set to conclude on February 9.

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