The reboot of Criminal Minds for what will be its 16th season now has an official title. After taking a couple of years off, the popular drama returns with a new title – Criminal Minds: Evolution – and a new home on Paramount+.
The title announcement included details on the plot as well as the news that Zach Gilford (Midnight Mass) is joining season 16 as a recurring guest star. Per Paramount+, Gilford will play “Elias Voit, an operations analyst for a global cyber-security firm who has a dark side and obsession with death.”
Returning original cast members include Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez, and Paget Brewster. The series also brought back Criminal Minds‘ Erica Messer as a writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Writer Breen Frazier, writer Christopher Barbour, director Glenn Kershaw, and Mark Gordon are also serving as executive producers.
Criminal Minds: Evolution is an ABC Signature and CBS Studios production.
The Plot: CBS’s original Criminal Minds series, which ran from 2005-2020, followed an elite team of FBI profilers who analyzed the country’s most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they struck again. And now, the BAU is back! In the all-new Criminal Minds: Evolution episodes exclusively available on Paramount+, the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers. Now, as the world opens back up, the network goes operational, and our team must hunt them down, one murder at a time.
