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‘FBI’ Offshoot ‘CIA’ Starring Tom Ellis Ordered Straight-To-Series By CBS For 2025-26 Season


FBI's spinoff with a CIA twist is moving forward with a straight-to-series order at CBS and Tom Ellis as star, sources tell Deadline.

Originally announced as a planted spinoff, the new FBI universe extension was supposed to be introduced in an episode of the mothership series this spring. As Deadline reported last month, that plan was eventually scrapped, with the attention shifting to a straight-to-series order, which was considered contingent on casting the main lead. Word started circulating about a month ago that negotiations with the Lucifer star had broken off but the project remained alive and casting.

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