FBI: INTERNATIONAL: Matt Olmstead on the Delicate Balance of Introducing New Characters and Season 3’s JOC-Like HQ
May 21, 2024 by Marisa Roffman
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“Cowboy Behavior” – The Fly Team heads to Bulgaria in search of a wanted criminal who is exploiting underage American girls. Meanwhile, Raines becomes curious when Forrester asks him to keep an eye on Powell, on FBI: INTERNATIONAL, Tuesday, March 12 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs). Pictured (L-R): Christina Wolfe as Special Agent Amanda Tate, Carter Redwood as Special Agent Andre Raines, Vinessa Vidotto as Special Agent Cameron Vo, Eva-Jane Willis as Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson, and Greg Hovanessian as Damien Powell. Photo: Nelly Kiss/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
[This interview was conducted earlier in the season, before news of Luke Kleintank’s exit broke.]
When FBI: INTERNATIONAL kicked off its third season, there was a noticeable shift in place for how stories were told: Instead of the Fly Team being on the go for the bulk of the hour, there was now an active headquarters, with some agents working from that hub as others did boots-on-the-ground investigating in European countries.
“There was kind of a happy…I wouldn’t say accident, but ramification, of the fact that when the original hub was blown up at the end of last season, it gave us all these character moves and the stakes involved [in that cliffhanger], but also your workspace has been eliminated,” FBI: INTERNATIONAL showrunner Matt Olmstead tells Give Me My Remote. “Now you have to find a new one. And so production-wise and storytelling-wise, we saw it as an opportunity—I would say especially production-wise, because where we were…it was kind of tough to film there. So we’re like, ‘Well, if we’re going to move to a new place, what can we do, having learned the limitations of that space? How do we open it up?’”
FBI: INTERNATIONAL: Carter Redwood and Matt Olmstead on Raines’ Recovery and an Unusual Return to the Vo-Raines-Powell Triangle
February 26, 2024 by Marisa Roffman
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“June” – The Fly Team, with the help of their new intel analyst, Special Agent Amanda Tate (new series regular Christina Wolfe), works to clean up the pieces left behind after a massive explosion rocks headquarters and their key suspect slips away, on the third season premiere of FBI: INTERNATIONAL, Tuesday, Feb. 13 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs). Pictured: Carter Redwood as Special Agent Andre Raines. Photo: Nelly Kiss/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
When FBI: INTERNATIONAL’s second season concluded, fans were left with an edge-of-your-seat cliffhanger: A bomb went off in the headquarters, leaving all of the team in danger—excluding Raines (Carter Redwood), and their honorary canine team member Tank, who were outside when the explosion occurred.
But the CBS series has a twist in store in season 3 premiere, as everyone inside made it out okay…except for Raines, who ran in to help his friends, and suffered a serious leg injury while saving Powell (Greg Hovanessian) from certain doom.
