The new season premiere of Wednesday night's Criminal Minds featured a surprising change in cast. Jennifer Love Hewitt replaced Jeanne Tripplehorn. This is the first episode of the tenth season on CBS which aired last October 1.
Hewitt's character, Kate Callahan, went right into the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) with much comfort and poise, to which everyone did not feel that she is fit for the team. Her character is an eight-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When we meet Kate, she is working undercover putting down pedophiles.
Hewitt says that she enjoys Kate Callahan's sarcastic, sometimes bordering inappropriate, sense of humor and enjoys the characters' relationships as well. Kate has "a really sweet connection" with Rossi, is "the Barney Fife to Hotchner's [Thomas Gibson] Andy. She gets really excited to go where he tells her to and be at his side in that way."
The 35-year-old actress said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that she had "been waiting to find the perfect way to get back," to the network. According to Hewitt, she has known Criminal Minds showrunner Erica Messer since their time on Party of Five roughly 20 years ago.
Jennifer Love Hewitt is an American actress, producer, television director and singer-songwriter. Hewitt started her career in acting by appearing in television commercials as well as the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She became popular in her teenage years when she played Sarah Reeves Merrin in Fox series Party of Five and the character Julie James in the film I Know What You Did Last Summer along with its sequel.
Hewitt played the main character Melinda Gordon of CBS television show Ghost Whisperer for five years.
Criminal Minds is a police procedural television series that follows a team of profilers from the FBI's BAU based in Quantico, Virginia. The show focuses on the group profiling criminals based on how they think. The series premiered in 2005 with main characters Aaron Hotchner, Penelope Garcia, Derek Morgan, Spencer Reid and Jennifer Jareau as FBI agents.
Criminal Minds shows Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on CBS.
