High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second season of Nikita, an American television drama based on the French film Nikita (1990), the remake Point of No Return (1993), and a previous series La Femme Nikita (1997), was announced on May 17, 2011, which premiered on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 8:00 PM Eastern/7:00 PM Central. The season featured 23 episodes.