According to TVLine, the FBI spinoff, CIA, has paused production due to Warren Leight (Law and Order, Lights Out) stepping down from his role as showrunner.  Leight is the second showrunner that CIA has had since last spring. Leight stepped in after David Hudgins (FBI: Most Wanted, Chiefs) stepped down. Hudgins was first credited when CBS announced the show would be on CBS’s schedule last May. Mike Weiss (The Hunting Wives, Death and Other Details) is supposedly in talks to take over the role of showrunner, which would make him the third for the show. The series is still expected to be on the midseason schedule.

Tom Ellis (Washington Black, Exploding Kittens) stars as a fast talking loose-canon officer who must learn to work with his by-the-book smart FBI agent partner, played by Nick Gehlfuss (Chicago Med, Chicago PD), who believes in following the rules. The official logline, via TVLine, states, “When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strengths.”

Leight is not the only creative leaving the sheries. TVLine reports that Michael Michele (Drunk, Driving, and 17, Queen Sugar) who was cast as Ellis adn Gehlfuss’s  chief at the New York Station, departed the series last week. And executive producer and pilot director Eriq La Salle (Victimas de sus amores, A Second Chance at Love) departure was announced this week.

CIA was announced earlier this year. Originally set up as a backdoor pilot for one of the FBI spinoffs, it received a straight-to-series order following the cancellation of FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International. A part of Dick Wolf Entertainment, the FBI franchise joins the production imprint’s other weekly procedurals on NBC: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law and Order: Organized Crime.