Work on season 2 along with a raft of other shows is set to resume as the first wave of television writers rooms reform following the end of the WGA writers strike. Making its debut in late 2022, served as a continuation of the hit 2005 crime drama, which follows members of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. Season 2 was officially greenlit by Paramount+ in January 2023, however, work on the new season ground to a halt when the WGA launched strike action in May.

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Per , the writers room for will be among the first to reopen this coming Monday, allowing work on the show to resume after months-long delays. Expected to join the hit crime drama for a Monday start is a long list of writers rooms for other high-profile shows including , , Reportedly following on later that same week will be Showtime’s season 3 and the CBS shows,, and

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When season 2 was officially greenlit, the intended release date was never explicitly announced. However, most viewers assumed it would follow the pattern set by season 1 and arrive sometime in November 2023, though all hopes for achieving such an arbitrary deadline quickly vanished in the face of the strike action that swept through Hollywood in May this year.

Yet, while the end of the WGA writers' strike bodes well for a timely return for the hit show, producers still will still need to contend with the and their members before filming can begin.

With streaming services such as Paramount+ firmly in the crosshairs of concerns raised by the actors’ guild regarding the transparency of viewership numbers and the impact of residual payments to their performers,

is just one of many shows whose cast members remain committed to fighting for better conditions for their profession as a whole. Though the show’s writers room is now set to get back to work, their finished scripts will only be the first step on the road to Hollywood resuming business as usual.

With any luck, the recent success the WGA encountered in having their own concerns addressed by streamers and studios will instigate a domino effect that shortly sees the SAG-AFTRA strikes resolved as well. Yet until that happens, it is impossible to predict how long audiences will need to wait before they see season 2 and many of their other favorite shows return to their screens.