Jane Lynch will reprise her role as Reid’s mother Diana on Criminal Minds this season for the first time since 2008, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
It’s a fun Reid story and she’s really excited to come back and reprise her role,” Messer says.
Lynch will appear in two episodes early next year for a “heavy Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) story,” executive producer Erica Messer tells TVGuide.com.
Her subsequent short-lived sitcom Angel From Hell also prevented her from returning to Criminal Minds.