FBI: Most Needed was a part of CBS’ Tuesday evening lineup for six seasons, however sadly cancelled alongside FBI: Worldwide in spring of the 2025 TV schedule. The story is not over for the unique FBI spinoff, nevertheless, because the drama remains to be within the operating for a pair of Emmys. Community TV procedurals do not normally get nominations for main awards ceremonies lately, however this can be Most Needed‘s third yr in stunt classes. Stunt coordinators Nitasha Bhambree and Declan Mulvey opened up about how they created “mayhem” to assist earn these nominations this yr.
Most Needed is within the operating for Excellent Stunt Coordination for Drama Programming and Excellent Stunt Efficiency on the 2025 Emmys, the nominations for which had been introduced again in July. They’re dealing with stiff competitors in each classes. For stunt coordination, the Most Needed group is up in opposition to Prime Video’s The Boys, Paramount+’s Lioness, HBO Max’s The Penguin, and ABC’s The Rookie. Within the Excellent Stunt Efficiency class, Evelyn O. Vaccaro and Alex Huynh are up in opposition to performers from The Boys, The Penguin, The Rookie, and Severance.
So, why am I rooting for FBI: Most Needed specifically? Properly, for one, I like to see community TV exhibits getting some credit score for what they do for 22 episodes per season, and government producer Ken Girotti emphasised the significance of sensible results after the nominations for the 2023 Emmys. Talking with Awards Radar, stunt coordinators (and married couple) Nitasha Bhambree and Declan Mulvey opened up a few stunt sequence from the sequence finale that they managed to make much more epic than within the script. And what higher technique to wrap up a sequence than with an epic stunt sequence? The coordinators defined:
Within the closing episode of the season 622, ‘The Circle Recreation,’ we had a home terrorist attacking energy grids. Within the climax, the villains kill the facility to a busy intersection. It was written flexibly as a result of such a scene is sort of demanding to movie in New York Metropolis. You possibly can by no means make sure what can be allowed. However provided that it was our closing episode, the producers and all concerned wished as a lot mayhem as potential.
The final case that the duty power confronted on FBI: Most Needed wrapped pretty early within the episode in order that the finale may give the characters what showrunner David Hudgins described as a “correct goodbye,” however that did not imply the stunts had been rushed. In case you watched the finale dwell again in Could or streamed afterwards with a Paramount+ subscription, you noticed quite a bit go incorrect in a short time for the group when that home terrorist assault on the facility grid hit the New York Metropolis intersection. The stunt coordinators continued:
What began as a fender bender between two vehicles turned a full-on T-bone, after which our Line Producer, Paul Cabbad, provided, ‘Are you able to get a 3rd automobile in that crash?’ To which there’s solely ever one reply: ‘Sure!’ And that’s the way it developed into the three-bone automobile crash that closes out our Emmy reel.
It stays to be seen if FBI: Most Needed wins both of the Emmys in 2025, and I am unable to assist however root for the present. That is the final likelihood for the group to win for Most Needed as a result of cancellation, and I’ve all the time felt that this sequence’ stunts are movie-quality. Delivering that 22 instances per season is a giant deal!
Former Chicago Hearth showrunner Derek Haas (who additionally labored on FBI: Worldwide) spoke about Hearth being snubbed from stunt nominations as nicely, so community TV exhibits typically aren’t rewarded. Maybe this would be the yr {that a} procedural within the Dick Wolf TV universe takes the highest stunt prize. If you wish to revisit the Season 6 finale of FBI: Most Needed with all of its mayhem, you’ll find it streaming on Paramount+ now.