Criminal Minds Scores Early Renewal Ahead of Season 17 Premiere

Wheels up! And keep ’em up!

Paramount+’s Criminal Minds revival has been renewed for another season, it was officially announced on Wednesday morning. The good news comes a day ahead of the crime drama’s double-episode Season 17 premiere (streaming Thursday, June 6).

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Filming will begin in mid-August, series front woman Paget Brewster revealed on Will Harris’ Random Roles Substack.

Last season on Criminal Minds (aka Evolution), the BAU’s elite profilers — Emily Prentiss (played by Brewster), David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), “JJ” Jareau (A.J. Cook), Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness), Dr. Tara Lewis (Aisha Tyler) and Luke Alvez (Adam Rodriguez) — went up against Elias Voit (Friday Night Lights‘ Zach Gilford), an UnSub who had spent the COVID pandemic cultivating a network of serial killers.

Season 2 picks up just two weeks after the events of that finale, as the team investigates “Gold Star,” the mysterious entity Voit used to bait FBI Deputy Director Bailey, whom he then killed. As that conspiracy unfolds, Prentiss & Co. are met with an unexpected complication when Voit negotiates a deal that transfers him to federal custody, right in the BAU’s own backyard.

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Brewster, Mantegna, Cook, Vangsness, Tyler and Rodriguez are all returning for Evolution‘s second installment arriving this week — as are both Gilford and Ryan-James Hatanaka, as onetime person of interest Tyler Green. Additionally, former S.H.I.E.L.D. director Clark Gregg is now heading up the FBI, and Desperate Housewives‘ Felicity Huffman will show up as OG team member Jason Gideon’s ex-wife. (Get more guest star news.)

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