Quite a bit of news for Criminal Minds: Evolution on Tuesday morning. Paramount+ has renewed the hit series for a 20th season for premiere in 2027 and set a May 28 premiere date for Season 19. We’re also getting a first look at the new season in the teaser above.
Season 19 also will feature a slew of guest stars, including Heated Rivalry‘s Connor Storrie, Justin Kirk (Angels in America), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Clark Gregg (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Paul F. Tompkins (Bojack Horseman), Cress Williams (Black Lightning), Kofi Siriboe (Queen Sugar), Lyndon Smith (Step Sisters), Richard Cabral (Mayans), Jeri Ryan (Star Trek Voyager), Rob Yang (The Menu), Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor), Inny Clemons (Judging Amy), Nicole Pacent (Westworld), Dash Mihok (Ray Donovan), Joseph Cross (Big Little Lies) and Cara Jade Myers (Killers of the Flower Moon).
Starring Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Zach Gilford, and RJ Hatanaka with Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster, Criminal Minds: Evolution follows the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, a team of profilers tasked with analyzing and capturing the country’s most dangerous criminals, before they strike again.
Season 18 — with more talk about serial killers, sadistic psychopaths and Elias Voit, the notorious Sicarius Killer played by the enthusiastic Zach Gilford — picked up six months after prisoners attacked Voit, leading his restless followers on the dark web to begin wreaking havoc all over the country. In order to stop this group from killing more women, er, innocents, the BAU was forced to play a “real-life game of Clue” while saying things like “yes indeedy” as they worked alongside the increasingly unpredictable Voit (who seems to stick to his own agenda).
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Criminal Minds: Evolution is produced by 20th Television and CBS Studios. Erica Messer (Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders) serves as showrunner and executive producer, with Breen Frazier, Chris Barbour, Glenn Kershaw, and Mark Gordon also executive producing.
All episodes of Criminal Minds: Evolution are available to stream on Paramount+.
