CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 Photos Just Getting Started

CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 Photos Just Getting Started – Episode 1601: “Just Getting Started”  When a family annihilator abducts a teen girl, the Behavioral Analysis Unit works the case on either side of the country to save her. But an unlikely connection to a mysterious kit leads to a bigger investigation and at the center of it is Penelope Garcia.

Written By Erica Messer

Directed By Nelson McCormick

The 10-episode season will premiere with two episodes on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 24, exclusively on Paramount+. Following the premiere, new episodes will drop weekly on Thursdays, until its mid-season finale on Thursday, Dec. 15.

The season will then return on Thursday, Jan. 12 with all-new episodes dropping weekly through the finale on Thursday, Feb. 9.s16e01 16×01 16.01 s16e1

The news was revealed by CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION showrunner, executive producer and writer Erica Messer during Paramount+’s virtual Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation today. In addition to Messer, the CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION virtual TCA panel featured cast members Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Paget Brewster and Zach Gilford.

CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION will continue and expand the beloved franchise for streaming audiences, blending serialized elements into the series’ format. CBS’ original “Criminal Minds” series, which ran from 2005-2020, followed the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, the best of the best who profiled the worst of the worst.

In CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION, the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers. As the world opens back up and the network goes operational, the team must hunt them down, one murder at a time.

Original cast members reprising their roles include Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster. Zach Gilford joins the dynamic cast as a recurring guest star in a season-long arc.

CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION is produced by ABC Signature and CBS Studios. Erica Messer (“Criminal Minds,” “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders”) serves as showrunner, executive producer and writer. Breen Frazier and Chris Barbour will serve as writers and executive producers, Glenn Kershaw will direct and executive produce and Mark Gordon will also serve as executive producer.

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CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 Photos Just Getting Started

CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 -  "Just Getting Started" - Zach Gilford as Elias Jasper Voit in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton /Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 – “Just Getting Started” – Zach Gilford as Elias Jasper Voit in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton /Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 - "Just Getting Started" - Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 – “Just Getting Started” – Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 - "Just Getting Started" - Joe Mantegna as Dave Rossi and A.J. Cook as Jennifer “JJ”  Jarreau in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 – “Just Getting Started” – Joe Mantegna as Dave Rossi and A.J. Cook as Jennifer “JJ” Jarreau in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 - "Just Getting Started" - Joe Mantegna as Dave Rossi  in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 – “Just Getting Started” – Joe Mantegna as Dave Rossi in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 - "Just Getting Started" - Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 – “Just Getting Started” – Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION – “Just Getting Started” – Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION – “Just Getting Started” – Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 Just Getting Started
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION – “Just Getting Started” – Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and Joe Mantegna as David Rossi in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Michael Yarish /Paramount+
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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION – “Just Getting Started” – Aisha Tyler as Dr. Tara Lewis in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Michael Yarish /Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 Photos -"Just Getting Started" - Aisha Tyler as Dr. Tara Lewis in  Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Michael Yarish /Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1 Photos -“Just Getting Started” – Aisha Tyler as Dr. Tara Lewis in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Michael Yarish /Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1: "Just Getting Started" -  Zach Gilford as Elias Jasper Voit in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton /Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1: “Just Getting Started” – Zach Gilford as Elias Jasper Voit in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton /Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1- "Just Getting Started" - Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and A.J. Cook as Jennifer \'JJ\' Jareau in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton /Paramount+
CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION Season 16 Episode 1- “Just Getting Started” – Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez and A.J. Cook as Jennifer \’JJ\’ Jareau in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton /Paramount+
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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION – “Just Getting Started” – Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton /Paramount+
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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION – “Just Getting Started” – Joe Mantegna as David Rossi in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 1, season 16 streaming on Paramount+, 2022. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton /Paramount+