{"id":66294,"date":"2016-09-30T19:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T02:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=66294"},"modified":"2016-09-30T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T02:31:35","slug":"damon-gupton-joins-criminal-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joins-criminal-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Gupton Joins &#8216;Criminal Minds&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thomas Gibson<\/b> (Aaron Hotchner) <a href=\"www.csifiles.com\/content\/2016\/08\/thomas-gibson-fired-from-criminal-minds\/\" target=\"_blank\">was fired<\/a> from <I>Criminal Minds<\/i> last month following an on-set altercation, and the network previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2016\/08\/criminal-minds-will-cast-2-new-series-regulars\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> that it would add two new series regulars to fill the void. Former cast member <b>Paget Brewster<\/b> (Emily Prentiss) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2016\/08\/criminal-minds-promotes-brewster-to-series-regular\/\" target=\"_blank\">returning<\/a> to the show full time, and the network announced today that they&#8217;re adding <b>Damon Gupton<\/b> (<i>The Player<\/i>, <i>Bates Motel<\/i>) as a new series regular. According to the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbspressexpress.com\/cbs-entertainment\/shows\/criminal-minds\/releases\/view?id=46145\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>, Gupton will play Special Agent Stephen Walker. Walker is part of the Behavioral Analysis Program, the &#8220;counterintelligence division of the FBI.&#8221; Described as a &#8220;seasoned profiler&#8221;, Walker brings a &#8220;spy-hunting skill set&#8221; to the team. Here&#8217;s a quote from Executive Producer <b>Erica Messer<\/b>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our BAU family is growing. We\u2019re excited to have Damon join the show and work alongside our amazing cast and crew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nGupton&#8217;s character will be introduced in the eighth episode of season 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Gibson (Aaron Hotchner) was fired from Criminal Minds last month following an on-set altercation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":66295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3248],"tags":[3676,3260],"class_list":["post-66294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminalminds","tag-gupton","tag-messer"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm.jpg",900,350,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm.jpg",300,117,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm-768x299.jpg",640,249,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm.jpg",640,249,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm.jpg",900,350,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm.jpg",900,350,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm.jpg",900,350,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm.jpg",900,350,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/damon-gupton-joining-cm.jpg",720,280,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/criminalminds\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Criminal Minds<\/a>","tag_info":"Criminal Minds","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66300,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66294\/revisions\/66300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}