EXCLUSIVE: There’s a main forged departure on CBS‘ upcoming FBI offshoot CIA. Michael Michele, one of many collection’ leads, has left, sources inform Deadline. CIA, headlined by Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss, had been slated to start manufacturing in September for a midseason premiere. There are rumblings that Michele can be recast however that has not been confirmed and seems unclear in the mean time.
This can be a second main change on the crime drama, which was picked up in April with a straight-to-series order, following a showrunner swap over the summer season.
CIA facilities on two unlikely companions – a fast-talking, rule-breaking free cannon CIA case officer (Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned and good FBI agent (Gehlfuss) who believes within the rule of legislation. When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they have to be taught to work collectively to research instances and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, discovering that their variations may very well be their power.
Michele performed the pinnacle of CIA’s New York Station. The present additionally stars Natalee Linez as a CIA analyst.
Initially deliberate for a fall 2025 premiere, CIA in July was pushed to midseason whereas present process a showrunner change, with Warren Leight changing FBI: Most Needed showrunner David Hudgins.
Dick Wolf and Leight govt produce CIA alongside Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen, and Peter Jankowski. Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group, produces in affiliation with Wolf Leisure and CBS Studios.
Michele has an extended historical past with Wolf; in her first performing gig, she recurred on the primary season of his New York Undercover. She most lately recurred reverse Queen Latifah on one other CBS/Common TV crime drama, The Equalizer.
