FBI: International co-creator Derek Haas lends his support to the decision to cancel the series at CBS.
Speaking to TV Line, Haas stated, “I was so sad to hear about the cancellation, because I loved [Chicago P.D. vet] Jesse Soffer as Wes on the show and really thought it was a dynamic cast addition in Season 4… I love Amy [Reisenbach] and [EVP of current programming] Eric [Kim] over at CBS plus all my good friends at Wolf [Entertainment], and trust their instincts. So they must’ve had reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of the show.”
The second FBI spinoff series, FBI: International premiered on CBS in 2021 and garnered a mostly middling response from critics and audiences alike. The series’ core cast consisted of Luke Keintank and Hieda Reed as FBI agents Scott Forrester and Jamie Kellett, both of whom left after Season 3, as well as Carter Redwood, Vinessa Vidotto, Christiane Paul, Eva-Jane Willis, Christina Wolfe, and Jesse Lee Soffer. Despite the lukewarm reviews, the series maintained average ratings above the 5 million viewers mark over the course of its 78-episode, four-season run. The fourth and final season of FBI: International began in October and only recently concluded with the release of its twenty-second episode on May 20.
Two FBI Shows Got the Boot
The release of FBI: International’s final episode just so happened to coincide with that of the first FBI spinoff series, FBI: Most Wanted. Premiering in 2019, FBI: Most Wanted had an even higher average viewer count than FBI: International across all six seasons, running for a whopping 108 episodes, not including its backdoor pilot, which came in the form of the eighteenth episode of the first season of the mainline FBI series. Currently, the main FBI series is heading towards its eighth season, while another spinoff in the form of FBI/CIA is already in the works.
FBI/CIA will feature Lucifer star Tom Ellis in the leading role of Agent Hart Hoxton, a fast-and-loose CIA case officer who is assigned to work with a by-the-book FBI agent. Ellis himself recently described his character as “someone who has to use guile and deceit and lies to get what he wants. There’s large [doses] of moral ambiguity that comes with him.” Currently, there is no set premiere date for FBI/CIA, nor any firm details on who might be starring alongside Ellis when the series does eventually make its debut on CBS.
