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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?
I’m very sad they decided to cancel FBI International. it is an expensive show to film, however it showed parts of Europe that made it more interesting. Tuesday night has been my FBI night. I have not missed an episode of any of the three.
This is so disappointing. My husband and I love all the FBI shows. We love when it they do the crossovers…maybe they should do more if those.
I enjoyed both shows. Have looked forward to Tuesday nights.
What a shame canceling FBI Int’l. Really good show
Big mistake to cancel FBI International. There are so many other bad shows on CBS cancelling this show did not make any sense.
Not happy to lose FBI International. Never was a fan of Most Wanted. International was always more interesting and had better characters. Most Wanted cast just never seemed to come together and just weren’t relatable.
Why didn’t Dick Wolff concentrate on the core characters of redwood and Willis instead of putting so much focus on the newer characters I think that’s why it was canceled. This all stinks.
I’m sorry but I can’t do Dylan McDermott. Just his attitude turned me off from FBI Most Wanted. The former leader of that team was a definite success in my opinion. However, I understand everyone has their own choices.
When International popped, I was excited from the very start. Now, once again I’m disappointed by the producers.
It’s hard enough trying to find something that peaks everyone’s interest in television nowadays. Plus, every time you turn around you’re having to watch reruns.
This leaves a very sour taste in my mouth towards television nowadays.
hopefully new seasons from both series lands on other network..let’s pray
Shocked…hopefully new seasons from both series lands on other network..let’s pray
THERE GOES TUESDAY NIGHTS I am shocked this happened. Why do they take off the good shows and leave shows with no interest. I guess this means I will be changing from my favorite network as well. We do not need any more reality shows. Wednesday nights are my catchup night because Survivor and Amazing Race are on and I can’t stand watching them. Please find a place for the FBI”S
as usual, great shows are being cancelled and most likely being replaced with some awful reality show or game show. I am very disappointed that once again, an axe is being taken to good shows.
We really enjoy FBI international, please find a home for it somewhere
So sad it’s being canceled. Hopefully another network will pick up both FBI shows. There goes my Tuesday nights.
Will miss my Tuesday nights with the FBI