Criminal Minds exec producer Erica Messer admits she’s “hopeful” for a Season 11 renewal — and a series order for the procedural’s latest spinoff, Beyond Borders, which will air as a backdoor pilot on Wednesday (April 8).
TVGuide notes that there are six Criminal Minds stars up for contract renegotiations, a potential hurdle to renewal, but Messer is confident that both shows will be on the 2015-16 season map:
“I have been thinking of nothing but both of these shows! I’m hopeful for both. I don’t want to jinx it, but this [spin-off] opens up our storytelling a lot because it doesn’t have to be a serial crime of the week; it just has to be an American outside of the U.S. every week who’s in trouble.”
Evangeline G. says
I sure hope we didn’t just watch the series finale, the team flows so well together, a synergy that reflects the exxperience on which it lays – networks do not allow such time for series to ecome better with time as good wine – please keep them going; the world is so ful of stories more and more relevant for such a show now, so it makes sense to keep them going. Plus, I love the professionalism of each and every actor of this distribution. Also, the integration with new international team makes the new spinoff also very promising. Come on network – old is not always over and done with,the episodes just keep getting better and better, much more believable than several newer series.
Sharon says
Criminal Minds is my favorite show. It’s the best show on tv .
Kristin Hanley says
My husband & I have been devoted followers but if AJ Cook is fired Again, we will nolonger be viewers. They brought in another blond that couldn’t act. Then to replace Paget Brewster they brought another brunette that couldn’t act. It seems these producers can’t figure out the formula to good show. We watch shows where the characters interact & make it interesting. Change the formula & show flops. AJCook goes, so do we.
Denise Edwards says
I LOVE Criminal Minds, and have been watching since Season 1. I so desperately want a season 11 12….
And I would love to see lingering repercussions from what Hotch went through with MR. SCRATCH, and how he’s dealing with having been mind controlled.
As a long time CM watcher, if Thomas Gibson (my favorite and the reason I watch the show) leaves, I am gone. CM wouldn’t be CM without Aaron Hotchner leading the team.
Sam says
If Jennifer L Hewette comes back, I’m gone. She is terrible on the show. I’ve watched it go ten years and she is the worst. She does not blend in with the others and is not believable.