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By Swaleha | Published on April 25, 2025

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Entertainment / April 25, 2025

Lucifer fame Tom Ellis to star in CBS’s new snip off ‘CIA’

Time to rejoice! For both the fans of CBS’s FBI universe, which has had two recent prospective spinoffs shelved, and everyone’s beloved ‘Lucifer’ Tom Ellis, who might finally get a chance to break away from his stylised villain image for which he now gets typecasted

New Delhi: 

The media publication Deadline has come out with exciting news for two massive fan bases, that of Lucifer star Tom Ellis and CBS’s FBI universe. The publication on Tuesday (April 22) confirmed that Ellis is set to headline a new show titled CIA, a brand-new spinoff in CBS’s ever-evolving ‘FBI’ universe. 

Good news for CBS

The news is significant as recent attempts to resuscitate the franchise have been unsuccessful on the network’s part. Two attempts to take the franchise forward, FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International, have turned out to be unsuccessful, and with the CIA and Tom Elli’s participation, CBS would hope to take their plans of expanding the much-awaited ‘FBI’ series further.

New beginnings for Ellis 

While the announcement calls for rejoicement on the part of CBS, it perhaps also calls for a celebration on the part of its proposed lead Tom Ellis. 

The show shot Ellis to global fame, but as is common with actors who play a popular, strong role for a long period of time, it also resulted in his image and likeness being permanently associated with that of his character in Lucifer. This for an actor is not necessarily good news, as while it might give him instant recognisability but it makes getting good, varied roles in the future difficult. One gets typecast, as audiences get used to seeing the actor in only the singular role that they have come to associate him with.

Ellis gained global popularity by playing the title character in the hit TV series Lucifer. The show ran from 2016 to 2021 and has Ellis playing the role of Lucifer, wherein the devil ditches hell and decides to run a nightclub in Los Angeles. The devil incarnate though faces a new kind of hell when he becomes a consultant to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Lucky for Tom Ellis, playing the lead of a new series like CBS’s CIA might finally give him a chance to break the association his image had come to have with Lucifer. Something which actors like Robert Pattinson and  Scarlett Johansson have also been able to do successfully in the recent past.

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