Musidora

30 years in the business, that's definitely impressive.

And OMG that SONG. So many memories

Karma Police

Joe is definitely a veteran. Did you watch Joan of Arcadia?

So many memories for me too! The song came out in 1990, just like Can't touch this.

Logan

Finally a set pic I can post Joe and Jane in between scenes for Ep 23 ..

https://twitter.com/CM_SetReport/sta...123776/photo/1

Kitty230

thanx for the pic

Logan

Joe talks Season 9 and contracts

'Criminal Minds' Season 9: Joe Mantegna 'very confident' about getting renewal

By Jay Bobbin April 25, 2013 4:50 PM ET


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Joe Mantegna is sure "it isn't a matter of whether" his series "Criminal Minds" will be renewed, but when, and under what terms.

This week, the veteran stage and screen actor is wrapping up filming Season 8 of the typically dark CBS crime drama with night shoots. The two-hour finale that airs Wednesday, May 22, marks a critical showdown with the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit's enemy known as the Replicator ... but Mantegna considers another challenge the show is facing to be less life-or-death.

"We all feel very good, very confident" about the Season 9 order that hasn't come yet, he tells Zap2it. "I don't even feel there's any doubt that we'll get picked up. I think it's all been logistics, because so many contracts are up this season. Out of the seven actors, five of our contracts are up. And all of the writers' contracts, and the show runner's.

"This is the first time they've had to deal en masse with [renegotiating with] that many people. What's going on now are the conversations between CBS and ABC, because our show is co-produced by those two networks. I think it's, in a way, a matter of them ironing out who's paying for what. I have every confidence they will, because every indication is that this show is a valuable commodity to both."

Mantegna also is getting ready to reunite with longtime friend Gary Sinise ("CSI: NY") to co-host PBS' telecast of the 24th annual National Memorial Day Concert on Sunday, May 26. As he does, he notes the energy needed to make a two-hour "Criminal Minds" is "not much different" from any two one-hour episodes,

"We still run it the same way we do normally," Mantegna explains. "It's just a matter of doing [the season's] Episode 23, then Episode 24, knowing that 24 is going to run the same night as 23. We don't really do anything unique that way.

"The only thing that might change is that we'd shoot a scene for that last hour during the week we'd normally do the preceding hour. Just because of locations and logistics, it's easier to do that -- but they really keep that to a minimum, so that there's a logical progression. It doesn't really affect us at all to do a two-hour."

Logan

Final 4 episode for Season 8 episode titles

Ep 21 Nannie Deariest

Ep 22 #6

Ep 23 Brothers hotchner finale part one

Ep 24 finale Relipactor

Logan

Some more Rossi stuff in the next episode (22),this time happier stuff no ex wives dying on him

Kitty230

good and its always interesting learning more about his past

Logan

Not past but present

Kitty230

hm it'll still be interesting it always is

Logan

Ilike joe and his work on the show see where he is at the end of the season . Being eveyone re signed ,then i figure all are safe from major harm ..

Logan

Ohh saw the preview for Ep 23/24 Rossi .. be that it was only a 4 sec clip ...

This finale looks to be one of best ... and most emotional

Simon Spier

Add me please!

Logan

joe in a interview today at Monte Carlo Festival to E on line

Wednesday, Sept. 25.: Prepare for some backstory!

Criminal Minds returns for its ninth season on that date, and star Joe Mantegna revealed to us he'll be going behind the camera when the CBS hit procedural returns. "I'm going to direct one next season," Mantegna exclusively told E! News at the 2013 Monte Carlo Television Festival.

We also chatted with the fan favorite about what viewers can expect from the upcoming season, which includes learning more about all of the characters' past and "secrets" and about the series' longevity...


After his time in Monte Carlo, Mantegna told us he's planning on meeting with the creative team "to try and have some input on some storylines," but said, "The writers are so good that we all give them free reign. I take my job seriously playing David Rossi, and they take their job seriously writing this show. Where they're going to lead us, I don't know. I didn't know how the season was going to end this year and I loved it. I thought it was dramatic, shocking, all those things. The only thing I would hope for is they explore the personal sides of all our characters, all seven characters, and we've been doing that."

He continued, "I hope for more of that, I think the fans deserve it. They've been following the show for eight years and they deserve to know everything they can about the characters."
Of David's backstory, Mantegna teased, "We've already learned he's had three former wives and that he lost one of them. We know about his military background. Beyond that, we'll see. There may some more other secrets that are unveiled, as well as things about all the other characters."

Musidora

Added you, Jordan.

Flawless answer