Dick Wolf‘s shows have proven to be a success, and that trend continues with his latest, part of the FBI world.
CIA, which was renewed just five episodes into its first season, is returning this fall as part of CBS’ 2026-2027 lineup. It kicks off Season 2 right in the middle of the network’s premiere week in October. Read on for everything we know so far about CIA Season 2, from the premiere date to the cast and more.
When does CIA Season 2 premiere?
While the series debuted in the midseason, it’s moving to the fall, continuing to air after FBI (going into its ninth season). CIA Season 2 premieres Monday, October 5, at 9/8c.
Who’s in the CIA cast?
CIA stars Tom Ellis as CIA Case Officer Colin Glass, Nick Gehlfuss as FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman, Necar Zadegan as CIA’s Deputy Chief of Station Nikki Reynard, and Natalee Linez as CIA Analyst Gina Gosian.
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What is CIA about?
As the official description reads, “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.”
Ahead of the series premiere, as part of TV Insider’s in-depth digital cover, showrunner Mike Weiss told us, “Colin’s bringing … a very dark recent trauma and operation that went bad, a person he cares about deeply died. And so he’s not just like a brooding secretive guy. He’s actually wounded and over the course of the first season, Bill, at first on his own and then working with Colin, is going to help him get to the truth of what really happened one year ago in the Philippines. And it’s going to bond the two of them together as friends and they’re going to be able to move together into Season 2 on much more equal footing.”
That happened by the end of the first season, with the revelation that Colin’s former partner, Toni (Angela Sarafyan), whom he thought died, is very much alive.
What will happen in CIA Season 2?
Toni, after turning, ended Season 1 in the CIA’s custody, and the plan is for her to very much be part of Season 2’s story. That’s not easy for Colin.
“It is tough, right? He knows that what Bill says at the end of the episode is true. If he’s taught Bill one thing, it’s that the CIA works with complicated people and Toni is nothing if not complicated,” Weiss told TV Insider after the finale. “I think he kind of said everything that he wanted to say to her into that bug that he finds in his apartment. I think that what he’d like to say to her going forward might be as simple as, ‘I don’t trust you and I’ll never trust you no matter what you do.’ And so her storyline for Season 2, because we do want to fold her into the show, weave her into Season 2, she now needs to prove herself to the CIA and then on a human level to Colin.”
CIA, Season 2 Premiere, Monday, October 5, 9/8c, CBS