EXCLUSIVE: There’s a main forged departure on CBS‘ upcoming FBI offshoot CIA. Michael Michele, one of many sequence’ leads, has left, sources inform Deadline. CIA, headlined by Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss, has been in manufacturing for greater than a month, concentrating on a midseason premiere. There are rumblings that Michele could be recast however that has not been confirmed and seems unclear in the mean time.
That is the second main change on the crime drama, which was picked up in April with a straight-to-series order, following a showrunner change over the summer time.
CIA facilities on two unlikely companions – a fast-talking, rule-breaking free cannon CIA case officer (Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned and sensible 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 need to study to work collectively to research circumstances and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, discovering that their variations may very well be their energy.
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 Wished showrunner David Hudgins.
Dick Wolf and Leight government produce CIA alongside Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen, and Peter Jankowski. Eriq La Salle is directing and government producing the pilot episode. Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group, produces in affiliation with Wolf Leisure and CBS Studios.
Michele has a protracted historical past with Wolf; in her first appearing gig, she recurred on the primary season of his New York Undercover. She most just lately recurred reverse Queen Latifah on one other CBS/Common TV crime drama, The Equalizer.
