While in NY Niko was asked to put himself on tape for the UNSUB role in season 14 of Criminal Minds. Gladly, he set up his camera and went to work on it. Two days later Niko was asked to attend the callback. Sadly, he could not. Niko was stuck in NY until the end of the week. It was a producer session and they were seeing several other actors for the part. The next day he was told, that after seeing other actors and having the producer session they STILL wanted Niko for the role!
