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This team won’t be back for a seventh year or the 2025-26 TV season. CBS has cancelled FBI: Most Wanted. The series’ sixth season continues to air on Tuesday nights.
A procedural drama series, FBI: Most Wanted is a spin-off of the FBI TV series. The show stars Dylan McDermott, Shantel VanSanten, Roxy Sternberg, Keisha Castle-Hughes, and Edwin Hodge. The story focuses on the work of the Fugitive Task Force, a team that tracks and captures notorious criminals on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted list. Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott (McDermott) is the team’s charming but formidable leader. He started his career in the New York FBI field office before rising through the ranks of the Bureau in Philadelphia and Las Vegas. The team includes Special Agent Sheryll Barnes (Sternberg), a former NYPD detective and forensics expert who is raising two young children with her wife; Special Agent Hana Gibson (Castle-Hughes), a gifted millennial computer whiz with a sharp wit and mad hacking skills; former New Orleans cop-turned-junior detective, Special Agent Ray Cannon (Hodge); and the team’s newest member, Special Agent Nina Chase (VanSanten), who has experience in undercover work and is skilled with cars.
Airing on Tuesday nights, the sixth season of FBI: Most Wanted averaged a 0.31 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 4.27 million viewers (includes DVR playback through 3:00 AM). Compared to season five, that’s down by 15% in the demo and down by 11% in viewership.
Most Wanted is currently one of the network’s lower-rated dramas 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. 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 disappointed that FBI: Most Wanted hasn’t been renewed for a seventh season?
Very,very Dissapointed ,
I´m a big fan from all the 3 FBI series,following each one since S1 every week
Cancellation is a non-sense and bad decision from the network, they do not have had the vision that each series keeps the audience in CBS every Tuesday with the profit that Sponsors make to the Network
Creators then must move to another Network to continue with following seasons
CBS will regret cancelling this 2 series
Please renew both FBI; Most Wanted and FBI International. They are the best produced and acted
VERY disappointing!!! East New York w Jimmy Smits was another one.
This is exactly why people are turning to the internet to watch tv. Anything half decent gets cancelled because the studio wants more and more. I watch all three FBI shows and am now going to turn away from tv because I have literally had it with these executives that don’t give the people what they want.
Totally agree!!!!!!!!!
My husband and I are very disappointed. We looked forward to Tuesday nights…FBI SERIES!! We just love all 3 of them. Gonna miss the show.
Disappointed. I watch FBI shows before. It was Awesome.
I will miss the series, I watched it and loved it every week.
Ohhh this is so upsetting…loved this show…love the story lines too….I agree with everyone on why good shows get canceled to make room for cheaper less quality stuff….and I hate reality shows…lord we have too many lol…anyway sorry to see it go
NOOOO! It is a GREAT SHOW!! Why are there always cancellations on great shows?
I agree with Andy. CBS is cancelling all of the good shows just to put on more crap shows. CBS is not worth watching any more.
CBS is going find that if they keep cancelling good shows we watch. That no one will watch any CBS shows. This bs reality show no one watches and dumb soaps.
The weakest of the 3 in my opinion (constant cast shuffle) but I liked it.
Always the good ones are canceled. Tired of soaps and reality shows!!
What a CROCK!!! Why do all the good shows get cancelled???? Hope Nina goes to the original FBI.
Cr*P, I like this show.
Me too. And I’m still upset with CBS about NCIS Hawaii.