Strike Force: Soffer, Olmstead Developing Crime Drama Series for CBS
The project reunites Jesse Lee Soffer and Matt Olmstead after FBI: International was canceled, with CBS using a development-room order for its 2027/28 slate.
- CBS has opened a development room for Strike Force, a new crime drama starring and executive produced by Jesse Lee Soffer, as the network builds its 2027/28 development slate.
- Reuniting with writer and executive producer Matt Olmstead, Soffer continues a collaboration from Wolf Entertainment's FBI: International and Chicago P.D., where Olmstead co-created the latter during Soffer's nine-season run.
- The show's logline states, "A battle-tested DEA agent returns home to Kansas City to lead a multi-agency strike force targeting the violent criminals now trying to exploit America's heartland."
- Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS Studios are producing the series as one of four projects announced in April for the 2027/28 development slate.
- Following a strategy similar to the cop dramedy Flint, CBS is balancing straight-to-series orders with a return to its traditional pilot season model in the post-streaming era.
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