Sarah Greene as Maxine Carlson (season 1–2), a crisis and hostage negotiator who acts as Beaumont's second.Brandon Jay McLaren as Oliver Yates, a psychological profiler.Nazneen Contractor as Zara Hallam, the team's lead investigator.He grew up in Chicago, where his mother, a surgeon, still lives Luke Roberts as Eric Beaumont, an experienced crisis and hostage negotiator.The series is inspired by the real life negotiators Laurent Combalbert and Marwan Mery. The series follows Eric Beaumont, an experienced crisis and hostage negotiator, and his team, who solve kidnap and ransom cases involving the most dangerous criminals in the world. scripted series that debuted on its Saturday night schedule since The District cancelled in 2004. On July 3, 2019, CBS announced that the series had been cancelled after three seasons. On July 16, 2018, CBS and Global announced that the series has been renewed for a 13-episode third season, which premiered on February 16, 2019. On October 10, 2017, CBS and Global officially announced that Ransom had been renewed for a 13-episode second season, which premiered on Apon CBS in the United States. Production was set to start in late July 2017. In late June, various sources reported that Global and TF1 ordered a second season, to be produced without the former partners. It was reported on the same day that the other broadcasters behind the series were attempting to fund a second season.

A day later, RTLGroup also reported that they left the project after low ratings in Germany. On May 17, 2017, CBS announced that Ransom was cancelled in the United States. The series premiered on Global and CBS on January 1, 2017. Ordered straight-to-series with 13 episodes on June 6, 2016, the series is a co-production between Canada's Global, France's TF1, the United States' CBS, and Germany's RTL, while the latter is airing the series on its sister network VOX. Ransom is an internationally co-produced drama television series created by David Vainola and produced by Frank Spotnitz, starring Luke Roberts, that began airing on CBS.

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