Task season 2 has found its new team of FBI agents.
Premiered in September 2025, HBO's crime drama stars Mark Ruffalo as Tom Brandis, an FBI agent in the Philadelphia area leading a task force of detectives played by Fabien Frankel, Thuso Mbedu, and Alison Oliver. In November 2025, Task season 2 was renewed by HBO, which will see Brandis leading a brand-new task force undertaking a new operation.
Now, according to Deadline, Task season 2 has cast Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis, and Aminah Nieves as agents who will make up the new task force – alongside the already announced two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Green Book), who also received an Emmy nomination for starring in HBO's True Detective season 3.
Each of their characters has also been revealed, with Harry Melling playing Brennan Boylan, a "powder-keg DEA agent" alongside Nagaitis as the "loyal and unflappable DEA agent," Luke Clemmons, and Nieves playing Nataly Zamora, a "no-nonsense FBI agent and dedicated young mother who fights hard to protect the community that raised her."
As previously revealed, Mahershala Ali will play Eddie Barnes, a "seasoned and well-respected DEA agent in Philadelphia whose team comes into conflict with the unit of Tom Brandis." In season 2, Brandis "takes the helm of a new task force, but the deeper the operation runs, the harder it is to tell who's the target."
Task season 1 saw Brandis put in charge of a task force investigating a crew of masked robbers, led by unsuspecting family man, Robbie Prendergrast (Tom Pelphrey), carrying out a string of violent robberies against stash houses run by outlaw motorcycle gangs in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia.
In terms of season 2's new additions, Melling is best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter movies, and recently starred in A24's Pillion. Nagaitis has appeared in series like HBO's Chernobyl and The Agency and films like Ridley Scott's The Last Duel. He will be seen next in Apple TV's Star City, a spin-off of For All Mankind. Nieves has recently appeared in the Yellowstone prequel series 1923 and Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite.
Created by Brand Ingelsby, who returned to HBO after his Emmy-winning crime drama Mare of Easttown, Task has emerged as one of the most talked-about shows in recent memory and has earned significant awards season attention with multiple Critics' Choice Awards nominations, several Writers Guild of America Awards nods, and a Golden Globe nomination recognizing Ruffalo's performance.
CIA Season 2's Fate Officially Decided By CBS After Rocky Season 1 Production
The fate of CBS' new FBI spinoff series, CIA, has now been decided.
CBS confirmed that CIA has officially been renewed for season 2, following impressive viewership numbers from its series premiere. According to Paramount, the premiere episode saw 8.4 million multiplatform viewers via broadcast and streaming within the first seven days of its release.
Ratings for the first three episodes of the series showed a 39% improvement on Monday at 10 p.m. compared to the same timeslot in fall 2025.
Behind the scenes, though, CIA has had a rocky production. FBI: Most Wanted showrunner David Hudgins was initially in charge of the series, but Warren Leight later replaced him. That wasn't the end of the turnover, though, as he eventually departed, along with executive producer Eriq La Salle. Mike Weiss, who was the showrunner on the original FBI series, was hired as the CIA showrunner.
All of this turmoil, plus Michael Michele's departure from the cast, caused production delays, and CBS decided to give CIA a mid-season 2026 premiere after previously announcing it would debut in fall 2025.
CIA stars Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss as CIA Agent Colin Glass and FBI Agent Bill Goodman, respectively, who are tasked with working together on a secretive joint CIA/FBI task force. The two agents couldn't be more different, with the latter a rule-follower and the former more mischievous in nature.
While on the job together, Glass and Goodman stay in the shadows as they solve domestic and international crimes away from the eyes of the public.
Before CIA, Ellis was best known for his role as Lucifer Morningstar on the Fox/Netflix drama Lucifer, while Gehlfuss has starred in The Newsroom, Shameless, and Chicago Med (another Dick Wolf-created series).
Their CIA co-stars include Necar Zadegan and Natalee Linez. Zadegan, who plays Nikki Reynard, will guest star in the March 30 episode of FBI season 8, in which the Deputy Chief of Station is called in to help following a double homicide. The episode will mark Maggie Bell's return to the team after suffering a major loss.
Wolf created the hugely popular Law & Order and One Chicago franchises on NBC, and then went on to create the FBI crime procedural franchise for CBS. The first FBI series debuted in 2018 with star Missy Peregrym and is currently airing its eighth season.
Two years later, the first spinoff, FBI: Most Wanted, launched and aired for six seasons. FBI: International followed in its footsteps and aired for four seasons.
CIA, which currently has a 63% critic score and 51% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, marks the third FBI spinoff, with Wolf, Weiss, Ken Girotti, Paul Cabbad, Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen, Anastasia Puglisi, and Peter Jankowski serving as executive producers.
CIA airs Mondays at 10 p.m. EDT on CBS.
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