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CBS has renewed its freshman series, CIA, for a 2nd season.
The Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss-led play bid airs Monday nights astatine 10 p.m. ET/PT connected CBS and streaming connected Paramount+
On CIA, when by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman (Gehlfuss) is loaned retired to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up pinch secretive and roguish CIA Agent Colin Glass (Ellis). Together, they will activity connected covert operations successful New York, uncovering world plots, violent cells, and geopolitical secrets.
Bill will study nan rules of this murky world connected nan alert arsenic Colin leads him deeper into spy games wherever only 1 point is clear – their activity keeps America safe, moreover if nary 1 will ever cognize what they did successful nan shadows.
The bid besides stars Natalee Linez and Necar Zadegan.
CIA’s February 23 premiere was seen by 8.4 cardinal multiplatform viewers wrong 7 days, according to Nielsen. Further, nan clip play viewership improved +39% from past autumn done its first 3 episodes (airing Feb. 23, March 2, and March 9), winning nan clip slot against ABC’s The Rookie and NBC’s The Voice, CBS touts.
The show has already counted connected nan information of Jeremy Sisto, who plays Jubal Valentine connected FBI, pinch a typical crossover successful nan premiere. As Deadline reported exclusively early past month, location will beryllium much backmost and distant betwixt nan 2 shows, pinch FBI‘s Alana De La Garza and Missy Peregrym owed to sojourn CIA, and Zadegan heading to FBI, successful early episodes.
At nan bosom of CIA is nan overseas mates narration betwixt Colin and Bill, which nan actors who play them told maine successful February was seamless to enactment acknowledgment to their real-life friendship. The characters don’t linger successful a love-hate narration connected nan show; location are plentifulness of nosy moments wherever 1 is influencing nan other. This is particularly enjoyable erstwhile straightman Bill is influenced into being much for illustration Colin.
Executive producers of CIA include Dick Wolf, Mike Weiss, Ken Girotti, Paul Cabbad, Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen, Anastasia Puglisi and Peter Jankowski. The bid is produced by Universal Television, a section of Universal Studio Group, successful relation pinch Wolf Entertainment and CBS Studios.
