Tom Ellis New Show CIA | Series Announcement | Coming CBS Fall 2025 | CBS
Two agents. One mission. Two methods. New CBS Original drama CIA is coming this Fall 2026.
When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman (Nick Gehlfuss) is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA Agent Colin Glass (Tom Ellis). Together they will work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets. On CIA, Bill will learn the rules of this murky world on the fly as Colin leads him deeper into spy games where only one thing is clear -- their work keeps America safe, even if no one will ever know what they did in the shadows. Necar Zadegan and Natalee Linez also star.
From Wolf Entertainment, CIA premieres Monday, Feb. 23 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ Premium plan subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs).
CIA is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment and CBS Studios.
When a fast-talking, rule-breaking CIA case officer (Tom Ellis) teams up with a by-the-book, seasoned FBI agent working out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strength.
CIA, starring Tom Ellis, is a one-hour crime drama centered on two unlikely partners – a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer (Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned and smart FBI agent who believes in the rule of law. When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strength. CIA is a universe expansion of the FBI series.CIA is executive produced by Dick Wolf, David Hudgins, Nicole Perlman & David Chasteen and Peter Jankowski. Hudgins will showrun. Eriq La Salle is set as director and as executive producer of the first episode. The series is from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment and CBS Studios.
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CIA is a one hour crime drama centered on two unlikely partners - a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer (Tom Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned and smart FBI agent who believes in the rule of law. When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strength.
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Originally published: May 10, 2025.
Additional source: TheFutonCritic.com.
