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CBS boss Amy Reisenbach has defended the network’s decision to cancel spinoffs FBI: International, and FBI: Most Wanted, whilst launching a CIA spinoff series.
Per TV Line, Most Wanted and International have both been canceled ahead of the 2025-26 season, following a slight dip in ratings. Reisenbach justified the decision, despite CBS greenlight an FBI offshoot show, starring Lucifer‘s Tom Ellis, and tentatively titled CIA. She revealed that CBS has enjoyed its working relationship with (FBI franchise creator) Dick Wolf, but claimed that keeping the FBI spinoffs did not make sense from an economic perspective. She highlighted the need to be fiscally responsible, and compared the move to the recent cancellation of The Equalizer. Check out Reisenbach’s comments below:
“Obviously we love working with Dick [Wolf] and we’re so excited to be bringing [the new FBI franchise expansion] CIA onto the schedule. But going back to what we just said [about The Equalizer‘s cancellation], we have to be fiscally responsible, and ultimately those deals and the shows just weren’t penciling out for us for an economic perspective.”
Source: TV Line