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Paramount Plus announced a new NCIS spinoff featuring Michael Weatherly and Cote di Pablo as their NCIS characters Tony and Ziva. Weatherly recently made a surprise cameo appearance on the NCIS episode that paid tribute to David McCallum. The new series will stream on Paramount Plus and the storyline will have Tony and Ziva raising their daughter and on the run across Europe as some shadowy group is chasing them.

Earlier, CBS picked up a prequel series, titled NCIS: Origins, that will air on the network next season and will feature Mark Harmon's character Jethro Gibbs as a younger man in the early 90s starting out his NCIS career. The young Gibbs will be under the tutelage of Mike Franks (played on NCIS by Muse Watson). No word on casting yet, although Harmon's son, Sean Harmon, played his character as a young man in a couple of flashback episodes. Mark Harmon will narrate the new series.

What happened to NCIS: Sydney?

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Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:43 am

What happened to NCIS: Sydney?

NCIS Sydney is an Australian production that originally streamed on Paramount+ Australia and other international services. Word is that renewal is likely, with the most likely scenario being a U.S. second season on Paramount+ and eventually on CBS itself as a fill-in.

CBS has announced that Austin Stowell will play the younger version of Mark Harmon's character, Jethro Gibbs, in the upcoming NCIS: Origins. Stowell is best known for playing the lead in the romantic comedy The Hating Game. Interestingly, Stowell is 39, and Mark Harmon was 40 in 1991, when NCIS: Origins is set.

earendel wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:43 am

What happened to NCIS: Sydney?

Ear may have gotten the word on this first hand during his visit to the opal mine.

NCIS Sydney has been renewed for a second season. It will air first in Australia and then on CBS (not Paramount Plus). CBS also announced renewals for Tracker, Ghosts, and Fire Country.

CBS has announced that Kyle Schmid will play Mike Francks, Gibbs' mentor, on the upcoming NCIS prequel series NCIS Origins. The show is set in 1991 and features Austin Stowell as a young Jethro Gibbs, starting out in the itself new NCIS. The role had been played by Muse Watson on the original series.

NCIS: Hawaii has been canceled. The series finale will air in two weeks. It's the conclusion of a "big" two-part story, but I don't know if they wrote it with the intention of providing some sort of series closure like the conclusions of NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans. The show's Monday 10pm timeslot will probably be taken by the NCIS prequel series featuring a younger version of Mark Harmon's Jethro Gibbs character, set in 1991.

I saw the two-hour premiere of NCIS: Origins last night. A clean-shaven Austin Stowell as the young Gibbs looks a good bit like Mark Harmon. In the opening episode, his mentor, Mike Francks sponsors him for the NIS (not yet called NCIS) program. Gibbs is still troubled by dreams about his dead wife and daughter but shows some good detective instincts. There are two other agents in their unit, an incompetent nerd and a woman who clashes with Francks about his sexism although she's a very sharp investigator as well. Other observations:

1) They're going to make a big deal about the difference between 1991 technology and today. The unit just got a new IBM computer and the nerd marveled that it had a 12-inch color monitor. They also visit a technology company that had just developed a version of the CD Walkman, which they had to get someone to explain to them what it was.

2) There are several people on the show who were listed as guest stars in the opening episode but may become regular cast members. They include the unit's director, the technical expert, and the ME. The technical expert, played by SNL's Bobby Moynihan, helped solve the case by assembling pieces of videotape that had been damaged in a fire, gluing them back together, and putting them in a videocassette they could play in their VCR.

3) Gibbs's father, played by Ralph Waite on NCIS, appears here as well. He's played by Robert Taylor, who played Longmire.

4) Mark Harmon narrates and appears briefly in the episode in a present-day flash forward. He's apparently writing a journal or memoir about his history at NCIS and the narrated episodes will be chapters in his book.

None of the reviews I've read have noted what I find, which is that Gibbs' boss is played by a much more charismatic actor than the one playing Gibbs.

I wasn't gonna fall for watching this but so far I am.

I think I like the darker, less-polished tone of Origins (haven't seen episode 3 yet).