Chicago P.D. Shocker: Toya Turner Not Returning for Season 13 — Read Her Statement

The revolving door that is #OneChicago continues to spin: Toya Turner will not return to Chicago P.D. for the NBC crime procedural’s upcoming 13th season, TVLine has confirmed.

“My time on Chicago P.D. has come to a close,” wrote Thursday in an emotional Instagram post. “This show challenged me, sharpened me, and revealed what I’m made of. I’ve evolved through this experience, both as an artist and in my craft, and I’m walking away with depth, clarity, and momentum for whatever comes next.”

Toya then addressed the individual groups who made her experience so memorable. “To the cast and crew: thank you for the warmth, the laughter, and the generosity you brought every day,” she wrote. “It was an honor to share the screen and the set with such talent. To the ChiHards: thank you for welcoming me, rooting for me, and showing Kiana love.”

Ending on a high note, she wrote, “And to everyone who believes in me: your support means the world. I’m excited for the opportunities ahead.”

A specific reason for Turner’s departure is not yet known. Deadline reports that casting is currently underway for a new female series regular to play a “loose cannon” ATF Task Force officer with a military background.

TVLine broke the news of Turner’s original casting at the top of Season 12, with showrunner Gwen Sigan describing Kiana as a “very cool” and “very different” addition to the show. “She’s been on the force for a few years, so we get to see that she knows her way around,” Sigan said. “She knows what she’s doing.”

(Indeed, both the character and actress knew what they were doing; Turner was named a TVLine Performer of the Week in January 2025.)

Just 10 days ago, Turner was sharing on Instagram the self-tape audition that brought her back to her hometown of Chicago. “I had no idea this audition would be the one to bring me home. But it was,” she wrote. “This self-tape made me a series regular on Chicago P.D.

“Keep going, actors,” she added, “the right one really can change your whole life.” Not long before that, she posted a series of behind-the-scenes P.D. photos, saying, “Having #ChicagoPD withdrawals idk about y’all.”

TVLine has reached out to NBC for confirmation. Will you miss seeing Turner on Chicago P.D.?

Like FBI: International fans, series co-creator Derek Haas is understandably sad about the spinoff’s cancellation by CBS after four seasons.

Also like FBI: International fans, he is unsure about the why behind that decision.

(L-R): Eva-Jane Willis as Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson, Jesse Lee Soffer as Supervisory Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell, Vinessa Vidotto as Special Agent Cameron Vo Courtesy of Nelly Kiss/CBS

After speaking with Haas about Countdown (his new Prime Video thriller starring Jensen Ackles, Eric Dane and Jessica Camacho), TVLine sought out his uniquely qualified reaction to FBI: International being cancelled back in March, along with sister spinoff FBI: Most Wanted. (Haas, who’d previously co-created NBC’s Chicago Fire, created International in 2021 with franchise overlord Dick Wolf.)

“I was so sad to hear about the cancellation,” Haas told me, “because I loved [Chicago P.D. vet] Jesse Soffer as Wes on the show and really thought it was a dynamic cast addition in Season 4.”

Add in Jay Hayden (Station 19) as Special Agent Tyler Booth, a good friend of new Fly Team leader Wes Mitchell’s, and “they were gold together,” Haas opined.

Even with those additions to a solid ensemble led by original cast members Vinessa Vidotto and Carter Redwood — and all while maintaining very decent viewership — International got the axe.

‘INTERNATIONAL’ WAS ‘MUCH CHEAPER’ TO MAKE

International and Most Wanted this past season both averaged about 6.5 million total viewers (with delayed playback), down just 9% from last year. Out of the 14 dramas that CBS aired this TV season, they tied for eighth — ranking higher than the renewed Fire Country, NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney, as well as the cancelled S.W.A.T. and The Equalizer.

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Speaking with the press in May, CBS Entertainment chief Amy Reisenbach said, “Obviously we love working with Dick [Wolf],” whose Wolf Entertainment produces the FBI franchise with NBCUniversal Television. “But… we have to be fiscally responsible, and ultimately those deals and the shows just weren’t penciling out for us from an economic perspective.”

In locking down CBS’ schedule for 2025-26, “we always have to look at all of our shows… where they are in their life cycle, what the finances look like, what the ratings are,” Reisenbach said, and “make those tough decisions.”

Production on FBI: International was based out of Budapest, Hungary, which TVLine hears is “much cheaper” when compared to Stateside productions. But sister site Deadline suggested in March that the FBI spinoffs may have been victims of a ripple effect caused by “difficult renewal negotiations” that CBS had in recent years with other shows furnished by NBCUniversal Television.

CBS ‘MUST HAVE HAD REASONS’ TO CANCEL

Speaking with TVLine, International co-creator Haas said, “I have no insight into why it was cancelled.

“I love Amy [Reisenbach] and [EVP of current programming] Eric [Kim] over at CBS plus all my good friends at Wolf [Entertainment], and trust their instincts,” he continued. “So they must’ve had reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of the show.”

TVLine readers gave the FBI: International Season 4 finale — which unlike Most Wanted made no attempt to serve as a proper series finale, and instead sidelined many long-standing characters and left us with a cliffhanger