After a strong begin to its first season, CBS’ drama CIA is locking down a second.
The community has renewed CIA, a derivative of FBI, for the 2026-27 season. The pickup comes after simply 4 weeks on the air for CIA, which has put up good scores numbers to this point. It follows a equally fast renewal for the community’s Yellowstone spinoff Marshals.
The present’s Feb. 23 premiere drew 8.4 million viewers after every week of streaming and different delayed viewing, and the second episode on March 2 got here in at 7.6 million. In each instances, CIA greater than doubled its preliminary viewers over seven days (the primary two episodes averaged 3.78 million and three.59 million same-day viewers).
CIA follows an FBI agent (Nick Gehlfuss) who’s loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI process drive and partnered with an company operative (Tom Ellis) with a really completely different strategy to his job. Necar Zadegan and Natalee Linez additionally star.
The collection is produced by Universal Television in affiliation with (*2*)’s Wolf Entertainment and CBS Studios. CBS had initially scheduled the present for a fall 2025 premiere however pushed it back to midseason after showrunner modifications and a comparatively sluggish casting course of. Mike Weiss (FBI) is the showrunner, having succeeded Warren Leight, who in flip took over for David Hudgins.
Weiss govt produces the collection with Wolf, Ken Girotti, Paul Cabbad, Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen, Anastasia Puglisi and Peter Jankowski.
Keep monitor of all of the community renewals, cancellations and new collection orders with THR’s broadcast scorecard for 2026.
