‘Criminal Minds’ Revival Gets Title; Zach Gilford is coming again – Deadline – newsdubai

Paramount+ is on the way Criminal minds revival now has an official title. Criminal Minds: Evolution, from ABC Signature and CBS Studios, will premiere this fall exclusively on Paramount+. Zach Gilford has also been tapped to repeat in a season-long arc.

Criminal Minds: Evolution will continue and expand the franchise to streaming audiences, mixing serialized elements into the show’s format. CBS’ original “Criminal Minds” series, which ran from 2005-2020, followed the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, the best of the best, profiling the worst of the worst.

IN Criminal Minds: Evolution, the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers encounter their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers. As the world opens up again and the network goes live, the team must hunt them down, one murder at a time. Original cast members reprising their roles include Joe Mantegna, AJ Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster.

Gilford will play Elias Voit, an operations analyst for a global cyber security firm with a dark side and obsession with death.

Criminal Minds: Evolution is produced by ABC Signature and CBS Studios. Erica Messer (Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders) serves as showrunner, executive producer and writer. Breen Frazier and Christopher Barbour will serve as writers and executive producers, Glenn Kershaw will direct and executive produce, and Mark Gordon will also serve as executive producer.

Gilford, known for his role as QB Matt Saracen on friday night light, most recently appeared in Netflix’s Midnight mass horror series, as well Good Girls and LA’s finest. His recent film credits include The Purge: Anarchy and Boy Geniusand he will be seen in the upcoming Lifetime movie The disappearance of Cari Farver. Gilford is repped by Gersh and Untitled Entertainment.