EXCLUSIVE : NCIS: New Orleans alumna Necar Zadegan is returning to CBS as a series regular on the network’s upcoming drama series CIA , headlined by Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss. Zadegan will play one of the leads in the FBI offshoot, the Chief of Station role originally played by Michael Michele who departed the series earlier this month.

CIA , which started production in September, has been on hiatus for the past two weeks following the exit of Warren Leight as showrunner. Leight, who had replaced original showrunner David Hudgins in July, left shortly after the departures of Michele and the series’ director/executive producer Eriq La Salle .

Mike Weiss, showrunner of the mothership FBI series, who had been is in talks to add showrunner duties on CIA, has cl

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