Despite last week’s rumours of Harvey Keitel taking on a new role on Criminal Minds, it has been officially announced that the replacement for Mandy Patinkin will actually be Joe Mantegna. The actor will not actually be replacing Patinkin in that role, but will play a new character to fill the empty slot in the FBI team. No word has been released yet as to the reason for Mandy Patinkin’s departure and lips are still sealed as to how they will write the character of Jason Gideon out of the show.