According to Comicbook, the second season of Paramount’s Criminal Minds: Evolution is currently dealing with a major setback due to the current Writer’s Guild of America strike. The WGA strike started earlier this week and many things from television series to awards shows have been affected. It is not clear how many scripts are finished for the series but it doesn’t seem like they were able to fully finish the scripts for the second season or the producer may want the ability to fix and rewrite the scripts during production. 

According to TVLine, this is the second time that filming for the series has been delayed and now the production is being delayed indefinitely. The series was supposed to start in April and then it was pushed to June; now it is delayed until further notice. 

According to Comicbook, the official synopsis of the series reads as follows, ”In Criminal Minds, an elite squad of FBI profilers analyzes the country’s most-twisted criminal minds, anticipating the perpetrators’ next moves before they can strike again. Each member of the “mind hunter” team brings his or her expertise to pinpoint predators’ motivations and identify emotional triggers to stop them”.

In an interview in 2022, Paget Brewster (Community) who plays Emily Prentiss in the series told Comicbook, “We’re very thankful that they came to everyone who was in the cast for the last four seasons — they came to all of us and said, ‘would you all come back? And every one of us who can, who isn’t already signed on to another show, we’ve been negotiating this. We’re all hoping that it would happen and that we would be on Paramount+ as a streaming show, which would be a very different platform from what we had as a CBS show on network TV. We’re doing our darnedest, and everyone’s trying to make this happen. We really enjoy each other, and we really enjoy how much our fans like the show. Now we have all these new fans, who have been binging it on Netflix, in a different age group. When people used to say to me, ‘You’re on that show Criminal Minds,’ I’d say ‘yeah, your grandma watches it.’ Now it’s a whole new generation and we have teenagers watching. It’s crazy.”