Criminal Minds season 14 premiere date: When could it air, if renewed?

Following tonight’s finale on CBS, are you interested in learning the Criminal Minds season 14 premiere date? We are, as well, but it’s best not to get too far ahead of ourselves at the moment!

The first thing that is worth noting here, unfortunately, is that there is no firm Criminal Minds renewal just yet. The reason for this is simple, beyond of course the show’s ratings: CBS doesn’t fully own this series like they do many others. With this in mind, negotiations for this show take longer than with many of the other shows they officially renewed today.

We’re assuming for now that there will be another season of Criminal Minds for many different reasons, with the major one being that there seem to be plans for it to happen and nobody behind the scenes is preparing for this to be the final season.

With all of this in mind, the safest bet we can make is that Criminal Minds is going to return with new episode either in September or October. We’re hoping that CBS will announce the renewal within the next few weeks and then also the schedule for the new season being revealed at the upfront presentation in May. The specific premiere dates are going to be announced at some point in the summer and hopefully, we’ll have a better sense of what season 4 looks like then.

As we’ve said, we’re making some big assumptions within this piece … but we’re also just that confident that there is going to be more of Criminal Minds down the line. It’s a network mainstay and even with the ratings being down, it’s hard to really imagine CBS canceling something that has had such a long run without any fanfare or resembling even closely a series finale. This is a show that deserves so much better than that.

Provided that it comes back, what do you want the Criminal Minds season 14 premiere date to be? Share right now in the comments below!