It still feels like day two," Gubler said. Kirstin Vangsness, who played eccentric tech analyst and communications liaison Penelope Garcia, was on Criminal Minds for seasons 1 through 15 and was the only cast member to also appear on both of the series' spin-offs, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviors.
Penelope served as a key member of the crime-fighting team but also provided some much-needed comedic relief, particularly in her ongoing flirtation with Derek Morgan played by Shemar Moore. Vangsness told E! Cook was just 27 when the show premiered in , and she remained on it through season 15 as special agent Jennifer Jareau, aka JJ. The Canadian actress, now 42, has been through a lot during that time, including being pregnant with her first child during season 3. In an interview with TVLine, Cook said the series end was "nostalgic.
Brewster joined the series during season 2 and appeared through season 7. After several guest appearances in the years following, Brewster returned for season 12 as a series regular and has stayed on through the show's end.
Shemar Moore played heartthrob Derek Morgan for seasons 1 through 11 and appeared as a guest during both seasons 12 and Fans lamented Moore's departure from the show, but the actor said he was seeking more "balance" in his life in a interview with TVLine: "I love what I do for a living, I love it from 'action' to 'cut', but I also want to walk my dogs, travel, get married, have kids.
Mantegna, 72, posted on Twitter after filming his final scene for the show in May, calling the series a "truly wonderful experience. Aisha Tyler appeared as Dr. Tara Lewis for seasons 11 through 15 of Criminal Minds. The actress, who spent 6 years as a host on The Talk , has also directed several episodes of the show.
In , she told Parade that the series close was "bittersweet. See the list of episodes. Two spin-offs of the series were green-lit by CBS and aired on the network for the , , and seasons.
Both were eventually canceled due to bad ratings. The first spin-off, Suspect Behavior , was introduced in The Fight and, after being green-lit by CBS, premiered on February 16, with a episode order.
Due to the mild to bad ratings it received, only one season of 13 episodes aired before the show's cancellation on May 17, , ending in a cliffhanger. Kirsten Vangsness continued her role as Penelope Garcia , who was the team's technical analyst. The second spin-off, Beyond Borders , was introduced in the episode of the same name , and premiered on March 16, with a episode order. The series aired for two seasons, each consisting of 13 episodes, before eventually cancelling on May 14, due to bad ratings received from both audience and critics, based on reasons such as inaccurate depictions of countries the episodes were set in as well as their denizens.
It focuses on the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad. The team he trusts with his life includes Clara Seger Alana De La Garza , a new member who is a cultural anthropologist; Matthew Simmons Daniel Henney , a former military hero with split-second profiling skills he honed on the battlefield; and Russ "Monty" Montgomery Tyler James Williams , the unit's compassionate, brilliant tech analyst who additionally liaises stateside with the families of those in trouble while his group is far from home.
These agents are dedicated to safely returning U. A South Korean version of the series was announced in April Even the best series can and eventually do run out of ideas at some point, and having passed the episode benchmark makes this a logical, understandable time to close up the Behavioral Analysis Unit.
Not only has Criminal Minds ' time come, but it's out of step with other law enforcement shows on the air. Its reliable formula feels like it came from another, bygone era of TV Today's crime series have gone in two directions: gritty, challenging, and artsy — such as True Detective or American Crime Story — or safe and comfortable reboots like Magnum, P. Criminal Minds just didn't fall into either camp. A lot of factors play into a network's decision to end a popular series, but it almost always comes down to one big X-factor: ratings.
If enough people watch a show, a network can charge companies big bucks to advertise their products during that show. If the ratings stay high, the network earns a tidy profit in ad revenue. Should that pattern hold, a show could stay on the air indefinitely.
Case in point: 60 Minutes, still a major draw after more than 50 years on the air. Criminal Minds ' most recent numbers are nowhere near its highest levels. In the season, it placed just outside the top 40 most-watched shows on broadcast TV, pulling in an average of 8. That's a big fall from the season, when Criminal Minds was the 11th-most-watched show on TV. The numbers don't justify CBS keeping it around after next year. The longer a show sticks around, the more expensive it is to produce.
Actors can earn more money each time they re-negotiate their contracts to stick around for a few more seasons. They've got producers in a bind — they kind of have to pay the actors what they want so as to keep a show's audience-drawing cast intact. However, a show's popularity and ratings tend to naturally slip over time, meaning the longer a series runs, it becomes less profitable due to declining ad rates and increasing production costs. If it's no longer financially worth it for a network to proceed in such a matter, they'll cut the dead weight of an expensive, long-running show.
For example, Criminal Minds ratings were nowhere near series highs, but in , original cast members Kirsten Vangsness and A. Cook signed new contracts and got substantial raises, ones that gave them salary parity with well-paid co-star Matthew Gray Gubler.
All those salaries stick out on the CBS ledger, and couldn't help but play a part in the show being canceled. Crime procedurals are supposed to be rock-solid, ultra-reliable TV institutions. Viewers expect these kinds of shows to be pretty much the same thing, week in and week out, populated by the same set of familiar faces for years on end. Criminal Minds didn't adhere to those unwritten rules, churning out more than episodes despite sporting one of the most active revolving doors in TV casting history.
That lack of stability tends to turn off viewers, as Criminal Minds' downward-trending ratings over the last decade would indicate. Cook's characters, Emily Prentiss and Jennifer Jareau, respectively, were written out for a spell.
Throughout the s and into the early s, CBS got into a nostalgia habit, regularly airing two-hour-long, made-for-TV revival movies of some of its most popular crime, cop, and mystery shows of yesteryear.
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