FBI: Most Wanted, FBI: International Both Cancelled at CBS — FBI: CIA Spinoff Still in Mix
Sad news for the #FBIFam: CBS‘ #TheFBIs soon might be singular.
TVLine has learned that FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International have both been cancelled, and will not be returning for the 2025-26 TV season.
TVLine’s oft-imitated, never replicated Renewal/Cancellation Scorecard has thusly been updated.
This double dose of bad news comes two weeks after CBS renewed nine (9!) shows in one fell swoop, including NCIS: Origins, Fire Country, Ghosts and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. That leaves The Equalizer, The Neighborhood, Poppa’s House, S.W.A.T. and Watson all still sitting on the proverbial bubble, awaiting renew/cancel decisions.
FBI: Most Wanted, which launched in January 2020 (after airing its backdoor pilot in an April 2019 episode of FBI), is currently unspooling Season 6 on Tuesdays at 10/9c.
FBI: International launched in September 2021, and is currently airing its fourth season Tuesdays at 9 pm, where it leads out of the mothership.
Both FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International are still in production on their current seasons, so there is at least the chance that fitting series finales for both/either can be shot.
FBI proper was the recipient of a three-season renewal last spring, and as such is guaranteed be around through at least Season 9 (Spring 2027).
‘FBI Most Wanted’
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FBI: Most Wanted this season is averaging 6.5 million total viewers, down 10% from its Season 5 average. Out of the 14 drama series that CBS has aired this TV season, it ranks No. 9 (behind broadcast’s most-watched show Tracker, the freshman hit Matlock, FBI, the cancelled but spinoff-bound Blue Bloods, NCIS, Elsbeth, the recently launched Watson and FBI: International).
Most Wanted last TV season was broadcast television’s No. 10 most-watched returning drama.
The series’ current cast includes original cast members Roxy Sternberg and Keisha Castle-Hughes, plus Dylan McDermott, Edwin Hodge and FBI transplant Shantel VanSanten.
‘FBI: International’
Photo : CBS
FBI: International this season is averaging 6.53 million total viewers, down 10% from its Season 3 average. Out of the 14 drama series that CBS has aired this TV season, it ranks No. 8 (behind broadcast’s most-watched show Tracker, the freshman hit Matlock, FBI, the cancelled but spinoff-bound Blue Bloods, NCIS, Elsbeth and the recently launched Watson).
Its current cast includes original cast members Vinessa Vidotto, Carter Redwood and Green the dog, plus Eva-Jane Willis, Christina Wolfe and Jesse Lee Soffer.
‘FBI’
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#TheFBIs’ one hope of staying plural is the prospective new spinoff FBI: CIA, which will air its backdoor pilot as a springtime episode of FBI.
In FBI: CIA, a dedicated, strait-laced FBI agent and a street-smart CIA agent join forces as part of a new, clandestine task force charged with solving and preventing domestic terrorism in and around New York City.
FBI: CIA is still in development and remains to be cast.