another one added to the spin-off cast

[dysfunkshunell1.livejournal.com]

From the Futon Critic

CRIMINAL MINDS (CBS) - Matt Ryan ("The Tudors") is on track to join the cast of the potential spin-off, about "a new group of profilers who work outside the FBI bureaucracy." He'll reportedly play Mick Fleming, "a Cambridge-educated British ex-Mercenary, formerly of the British Special Forces, an expert sniper and a ladies man." Forest Whitaker also stars in the hour, which Richard Shepard is directing from a script by Chris Mundy and Ed Bernero. ABC Studios, CBS Television Studios and The Mark Gordon Company are co-producing.

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[took-skye.livejournal.com]

Okay what I don't get (okay ONE of the things I don't get) is...if this team is "outside the FBI bureaucracy" then WHY oh why was there an earlier press release about a character who was, essentially, Strauss 2.0 (female higher-up who deals with the agents and politics)??? If this team doesn't have to worry about bureaucracy than surely it doesn't need a bureaucrat on a show about it!

And *sarcasm alert* LOVE that the Brit just happens to be "a ladies man" with the last name Fleming...I smell a "Fleming, Mick Fleming" in the introduction somewhere, don't you? Maybe a nice martini and lady agent after taking out an UNSUB via sniper?

...Sorry but, haha, I was intrigued to start and now this is looking like a parody of the original. I'll probably still watch the first episode or so (I'm kind like that) but if it doesn't impress me I'm not watching.