Person of Interest may have ended this week, but the CBS series’ executive producers recently told Deadline they’re open to a spin-off series.
The drama starred Jim Caviezel as a former CIA agent who partners with a billionaire (Michael Emerson) to prevent violent crimes in New York City. The cast also included Kevin Chapman, Sarah Shahi, and Amy Acker.
In the interview, EP Greg Plageman said the show could be revived with a different group of people:
Look, I think the premise that Jonah came up with in terms of an artificial intelligence that takes in all this information, processes it and gives, you might say, a predictive output in some regard is so strong that there’s no doubt that that could be revived in some sense. I don’t know if it would be with these characters. In Episode 11 this year we understood that the Machine had been providing information to another group of people. So could it be that this show is strong enough that it could come back in a different form? I would say never say never in a world where we’ve seen the X-Files and 24 and a number of really strong premises come back as well.”
Fellow EP Jonah Nolan agreed, saying he’d revisit the series in a heartbeat:
We had such a ball making this show that if there is an opportunity to revisit it, in a heartbeat I’d be there.”
What do you think? Were you a fan of Person of Interest? Would you watch a spin-off?
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11 Comments on "Person of Interest: Exec Producers Open to a Spin-Off"
No way.. Without the original cast?? I can’t watch a ‘trashed person of interest’ hopefully the don’t use the original name of the tv show!! What a shame!!
Be difficult with a different cast. Everyone so enthralled with the old cast. Difficult.
The final season had so many logic gaps that for me, it precludes a revival. For instance, how did the Machine communicate directly with Finch? He was never shown wearing an earpiece to hear any such communication? How did the machine acquire the capacity, not only for self-defense, but for playing offense? Finch never gave the machine permission for either. And now that the machine has offensive capability, what’s to stop it from becoming Samaritan v2.0?
I watched Person of Interest every week. I would love for it to make a come back.
I would watch a spin-off in a heartbeat. I think ideally it would be fun to have the original cast make guest appearances if they were otherwise engaged in other projects.
I would only watch a spin-off if Jim Caviezel was in it. He was the heart of this show. Otherwise, I probably would not.
Only if Jim Caveziel was in it would My Family watch The Spin-Off We feel He made person of interest.