CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Actor and director Adam Rodriguez on the latest season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/05/2026
Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez in Season 19 epsiode "Cluster" of CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION | ©2026 CBS/Justin Lubin

Adam Rodriguez joined CRIMINAL MINDS on CBS in its twelfth season in 2016 as FBI Supervisory Special Agent Luke Alvez with the Behavioral Analysis Unit. Actor and character remained through 2020’s Season 15, when CBS canceled the series. When Paramount+ revived it as CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION for a sixteenth season on streaming in 2022, Rodriguez immediately returned, along with the majority of the regular cast. The show is now in the midst of Season 19, with new episodes streaming on Thursdays. Like Luke, Rodriguez is from New York. He’s had previous experience in a law enforcement procedural over ten seasons […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Executive producer and showrunner Erica Messer gives the scoop on the latest season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/19/2026
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION - Season 4 | ©2026 ABC Studios /CBS Studios Inc

CRIMINAL MINDS, the procedural drama following the F.B.I.’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (B.A.U.) as they track and capture serial killers, premiered in 2005 on CBS, where it aired for fifteen seasons. Canceled in 2020, the show returned in 2022 on Paramount+ as CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION. However, the series’ creatives and cast – current regulars are Paget Brewster as unit chief Emily Prentiss, Joe Mantegna as veteran agent (and bestselling author) David Rossi, Kirsten Vangsness as the unit’s tech guru Penelope Garcia, A.J. Cook as agent Jennifer “J.J.” Jareau, Aisha Tyler as psychiatrist Dr. Tara Lewis, Adam Rodriguez as agent Luke Alvez, […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Actors A.J. Cook, Aisha Tyler and Ryan-James Hatanaka on Season 2 of the spin-off – Exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/16/2024
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION - Season 2 | ©2024 Paramount+

Paramount Plus’s CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION is now in its second season, with new episodes dropping Thursdays on the streaming platform. Essentially, this is Season 17 of CRIMINAL MINDS, which ran from 2005 through 2020 on CBS, then moved in its slightly new iteration to Paramount Plus in 2022. It has recently been announced that CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION has been picked up for Season 3/Season 18, depending on how one calculates these things. CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION follows the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, or BAU, as they track down serial killers. Unlike the mostly standalone CBS episodes, both seasons of CRIMINAL MINDS: […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Showrunner Erica Messer on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/03/2024
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION Season 2 Key Art | ©2024 Paramount+

Depending on how one reckons it, what’s launching on Paramount Plus on Thursday, June 6, is either Season 2 of CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION or Season 17 of CRIMINAL MINDS. The series, which launched in 2005, concerns the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, or BAU. These are the special agents who profile and track down serial killers. CRIMINAL MINDS spent fifteen years on CBS. That run ended in February 2020, but CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION began in November 2022 on Paramount Plus, with most of the cast and creative team from the network run still involved. Erica Messer has been a writer/producer on […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: Matthew Gray Gubler and Joe Mantegna talk Season 13 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/28/2018
Joe Mantegna as David Rossi in CRIMINAL MINDS | © 2018 CBS

CRIMINAL MINDS is now in its thirteen season on Wednesday nights on CBS. Matthew Gray Gubler has been on the series since its inception as the brilliant but socially awkward F.B.I. Special Agent Dr. Spencer Reid. Joe Mantegna joined CRIMINAL MINDS in its third season as David Rossi, who left the Bureau to become a best-selling nonfiction author, only to return to the fold. The two men are enjoying supper together on an outdoor CBS lot, dressed to look like a 1930s street, in Studio City, but are up for discussing this season while they continue their meal. ASSIGNMENT X: […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS: Gary Sinise – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/09/2017
Gary Sinise stars as Jack Garrett in CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS | © 2017 CBS

Gary Sinise stars in CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS, which returns to CBS for its second season beginning Wednesday, March 8. A spin-off of CBS’s twelve-seasons-and-counting hit procedural CRIMINAL MINDS, CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS concerns the F.B.I.’s Global Response unit, charged with investigating crimes committed against Americans abroad. Sinise’s character, Jack Garrett, is in charge of the team. Sinise is originally from Illinois, where he co-founded the famed Steppenwolf Theatre. The actor has some experience headlining CBS procedurals, having spent nine seasons starring as Mac Taylor in the network’s CSI: NY. Sinise also starred in the miniseries THE STAND, won an […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Joe Mantegna on CRIMINAL MINDS Season 9 and more

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/16/2014
Joe Mantegna is David Rossi in CRIMINAL MINDS - Season 9 | ©2013 CBS/Cliff Lipson

CRIMINAL MINDS, now in its ninth season on CBS, Wednesdays at 9 PM and renewed for a tenth, follows an FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) as they track and catch serial killers. Joe Mantegna joined CRIMINAL MINDS in its third season as Special Agent David Rossi. Mantegna, a Chicago native who worked with the Goodman Theatre Company and co-wrote the long-running stage comedy BLEACHER BUMS, has a scroll-length list of film and TV credits. He frequently acts for writer/director David Mamet, winning a Tony for his performance as Ricky Roma in the original Broadway production of Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Matthew Gray Gubler on CRIMINAL MINDS Season Nine

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/26/2013
Matthew Gray Gubler in CRIMINAL MINDS - Season 8 - "Alchemy" | ©2013 CBS/Sonja Flemming

The special agents of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit – BAU – on CBS’ CRIMINAL MINDS have had a rough time of it lately, what with their colleague Emily Prentiss, played by Paget Brewster, going to work in England when Brewster left the series at the end of Season 7 and Assistant Director Erin Strauss (Jayne Atkinson) being tortured and murdered by the evil Replicator at the end of Season 8. However, arguably Dr. Spencer Reid, played by Matthew Gray Gubler, has had the rockiest year of all. In Season 8, it took him ages to work up the nerve […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the CBS / The CW / SHOWTIME TCA Party

By SUE SCHNEIDER 08/18/2013
The Originals Cast - Charles Michael Davis, Claire Holt, Joseph Morgan, Leah Pipes, Danielle Campbell and Phoebe Tonkin at the CBS/CW/Showtime Summer 2013 Television Critics Party | ©2013 Sue Schneider

On July 29th a big party was held by CBS/The CW/Showtime for the Television Critics Annual Summer Press Tour at The Event, which is actually the upper parking lot where the department store Robinson’s/May in Beverly Hills used to be. Taking pictures before heading inside it was quite a turnout of stars from the three networks of their new shows and returning shows of the three networks CBS, The CW and Showtime. I probably missed a few as I went in as soon as the cast from the CW new show THE ORIGINALS, a spin-off from THE VAMPIRE DAIRIES walked […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the CRIMINAL MINDS Evening at the 2011 PaleyFest Fall TV Preview

By SUE SCHNEIDER 09/21/2011
Criminal Minds Cast - Shemar Moore, Paget Brewster, Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Matthew Gray Gubler at the 2011 PaleyFest Fall TV Preview presents Criminal Minds | ©2011 Sue Schneider

The Paley Center for Media is holding for the seventh consecutive year, the PaleyFest: Fall TV Preview Parties at their Beverly Hills location. Starting off this year’s PaleyFest, was a night with the cast of CBS’s CRIMINAL MINDS, on September 6th. Walking into the Paley Center were the cast of CRIMINAL MINDS, which included: Kirsten Vangsness, Paget Brewster, A.J. Cook, Matthew Gray Gubler, Shemar Moore, Thomas Gibson, Joe Mantegna and Executive Producer Erica Messer. The PaleyFest: Fall TV Preview Parties is a week-long series of free public screenings, parties and panels. TV Guide Magazine and TV Guide.com is this year’s […]Read On »


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