Overview
- CBS opened a development room for the working-titled Strike Force on Wednesday, Aug. 12, and attached Jesse Lee Soffer as the star and an executive producer.
- Writer-executive producer Matt Olmstead, who co-created Chicago P.D. and worked with Soffer on FBI: International, is writing and executive producing the show.
- The official logline frames Soffer as a battle-tested DEA agent who returns to Kansas City to lead a multi-agency task force targeting violent criminals in America’s heartland.
- Jerry Bruckheimer Television will produce with CBS Studios involved, a pairing reporters say could ease internal approvals because the series would not need outside franchise licensing.
- Fans and former One Chicago and FBI: International co-stars publicly praised the news on social media, and CBS will decide on scripts, a potential pilot, and any pickup during its normal development cycle.