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The Fly Team won’t be heading out for more missions in the 2025-26 season. FBI: International has been cancelled so viewers won’t be seeing a fifth season on CBS. The fourth and final season will continue airing on Tuesdays.
A procedural drama series, the FBI: International TV show is the second spin-off in the FBI franchise and stars Jesse Lee Soffer, Carter Redwood, Vinessa Vidotto, Eva-Jane Willis, and Christina Wolfe. Jay Hayden recurs. The story follows the elite operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s International Fly Team. Headquartered in Budapest, they travel the world to track and neutralize threats against American citizens wherever they may be. They put their lives on the line to protect the U.S. and its people. Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell (Soffer) is the Fly Team’s new supervisory leader. Special Agent Andre Raines (Redwood) shines in the field and uses his accounting background well, while Special Agent Cameron Vo (Vidotto) excels at interrogation and strategy. Megan “Smitty” Garretson (Willis) is a streetwise Europol agent with an extensive undercover background and liaises with each host country they inhabit. Newly embedded with the Fly Team is Special Agent Amanda Tate (Wolfe), a confident and tech-savvy intel analyst who stays quick on her feet and remains calm amid chaos.
Airing on Tuesday nights, the fourth season of FBI: International averages a 0.32 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 4.82 million viewers (includes DVR playback through 3:00 AM). Compared to season three, that’s down by 15% in the demo and down by 9% in viewership.
International is currently one of the network’s middle-of-the-road scripted series in the ratings but is still performing decently and Dick Wolf’s shows are known for being economically produced. The cancellation likely came down to CBS executives having a limited number of timeslots on the schedule for 2025-26. Earlier this month, the network renewed most of its scripted series.
The network has already renewed the flagship FBI series for eighth and ninth seasons, but CBS has cancelled both FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International.
The cancellations boost the chances of a potential new show, FBI: CIA, being picked to series. The project is currently being cast and will air as a backdoor pilot episode of the FBI.
Word is that Universal TV and Wolf Entertainment will be shopping both cancelled shows elsewhere.
What do you think? Have you kept up with this CBS drama series? Are you sad that FBI: International wasn’t renewed for a fifth season?
Exactly how I feel.
Not happy! Really liked this show.
CBS you suck anymore!! You keep taking off the good shows and adding stupid ones.
FBI: CIA come on now!!!!
We love FBI International, Boo for cancelling it. I will probably end subscription to Paramount since the FBI shows are why we subscribed to it. Very sad.
CBS is just killing nighttime Tv. 1st BLUE BLOODS AND NOW FBI INTERNATIONAL. THIS IS BAD
FBI Most Wanted was ruined by a domineering almost abusive lead, Dylan McDermott. However, I will truly miss International. I suspect the real problem with it is it’s high cost if production.
So true about McDermott! He is so arrogant, taking food out of peoples refrigerators and cabinets. That is about as rude as you can get!! He has ruined this show.
Very very disappointed both series are good they always take to good shows off and leave the bad ones on terrible hope someone else picks them up
Just when both of these shows were getting good! Great job CBS
Cancel good shows? Boy are you out of touch. FBI International was one of my favourites!
Both shows plus their parent series FBI are three of the series I eagerly look forward to. I am sad that they will be cancelled
You keep canceling shows it gives me more reasons to stop my streaming services. That three including Blues Bloods.
Very disappointed in you canceling the FBI international and FBI most wanted that’s good TV. It’s always the numbers game in the world we live in all about the mighty dollar totally sad.
CBS keeps saving shows nobody cares about and then cancels the ones audiences actually like. It seems to be their MO
SHAME ON CBS CANCELING 3 GREAT FBI SHOWS.
FBI INTERNATIONAL was my favorite of the 3. Well written and great acting made it so interesting in places I’ll never go to. I’m very, very disappointed it’s cancelled.
I enjoyed all the FBI series, so am disappointed they are canceling both FBI International and FBI Most Wanted. I’m guessing at least for FBI International that it was expensive to produce given it was filmed in Budapest.