Dick Wolf’s vision for FBI as a franchise continues to come together with a potential third series on CBS.
I hear the network is eying FBI: International (working title), which would focus on the FBI’s international operations. The project, which is still in the dealmaking stages, is being written by one of the top showrunners in the Wolf universe, Derek Haas, who is expected to serve as showrunner. CBS declined comment.
Haas would executive produce the series with Wolf Entertainment’s Wolf, Peter Jankowski and Arthur Forney. Universal Television, part of Universal Studio Group, produces in association with Wolf Entertainment and CBS Studios.
FBI: International joins two other offshoots of formidable CBS procedural franchises targeted for next season, NCIS: Hawaii, a spinoff, and CSI: Vegas, a revival featuring original and new cast members, led by William Petersen and Jorja Fox.
FBI marks the third successful procedural franchise for Wolf, along with Law & Order and One Chicago on NBC. He pitched the original FBI series as the starting building block of an universe and has been working on expanding the franchise from the start. The first season of FBI spawned planted spinoff FBI: Most Wanted. Things are still in flux, but I hear FBI: International also may be introduced as a backdoor pilot, a strategy Wolf has been using consistently for his offshoots.
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