On February 9, 2017, it was announced that CBS had given the receive-a-pilot order for Wisdom of the Crowd based on the Israeli format.

[1] The episode was written and authored by Ted Humphrey, who was expected to be an executive producer, alongside Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Dror Mishani, Shira Hadad, and Adam Davidson.

[5] In March 2017, they have been cast were reported to be: Richard T. Jones,[6] Blake Lee,[7] Natalia Tena and Jake Matthews[8] as well as Monica Potter.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Wisdom of the Crowd wastes a talented cast on a formulaic procedural crime drama that wavers between modest returns and unintentional laughs.

"[24] Metacritic, which uses a normalized rating, assigned a weighted average score of 35 out of 100 based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".