Erica Messer can’t think of a more perfect day for Criminal Minds to turn 10.
“Episode 10.1 airs on 10/1. How cool is that?” Messer tells TVGuide.com. “It wasn’t planned. We didn’t know that until we started back up and we were well in the swing of things, and [CBS] mentioned that the premiere would be a little later than usual because of Extant and Survivor. So it’s great timing.”
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But for Messer, “seven” is the magic number for Season 10. After Jeanne Tripplehornleft the series in the Season 9 finale, Messer told TVGuide.com at the time that she wasn’t sure if they would replace her or just stick with the remaining six BAU members. “It was a really big, long conversation with the network and the studio, and they said, ‘Let’s go ahead and try to find someone new,'” she says.
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