NCIS
‘NCIS: Tony and Ziva’ Rounds Out Cast as Filming Begins
The NCIS spinoff focused on Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly’s characters is filling out its core cast. The Paramount+ series, titled NCIS: Tony and Ziva, has added eight actors as series regulars. The show, with Weatherly and de Pablo reprising their roles as Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, has also begun production in Budapest. […]
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CBS Backloads Fall Premieres for Big October Push
CBS will load up the majority of its fall debuts in a single week in October, creating its own premiere week a month into the 2024-25 season. The network will feature 11 season and series premieres in the week of Oct. 14, including those for two of its new series: NCIS: Origins (a two-hour debut […]
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Wilmer Valderrama on New Activewear Line E.P.U and Work With USO: “I’m Just So Proud”
Wilmer Valderrama has released an activewear and lifestyle brand with a philanthropic twist. The 44-year-old actor recently announced the release of E.P.U., which stands for “E Pluribus Unum” or “Out of Many, One.” The active lifestyle brand has formed a direct partnership with the USO, an organization that Valderrama has been involved with for nearly 20 […]
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‘The Neighborhood,’ ‘NCIS’ Renewed at CBS
CBS is continuing to fill out its roster for the 2024-25 season. The network has picked up two of its Monday night staples, The Neighborhood and NCIS, for next season. The renewals will take The Neighborhood into its seventh season and NCIS to its 22nd. With Young Sheldon ending this season, The Neighborhood will also […]
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‘NCIS’ Prequel at CBS Casts Younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs
The NCIS prequel at CBS has found its young Gibbs. Austin Stowell (Peacock’s A Friend of the Family) will play the younger version of Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS: Origins, which is set in 1991 and will look at the early days of Gibbs’ career in the Navy’s criminal investigations branch. The show’s time frame, […]
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Cote de Pablo, Michael Weatherly Return to ‘NCIS’-Verse With Paramount+ Series
The NCIS franchise is expanding again — with a pair of very familiar faces from its past. Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly are set to star in an untitled, Paris-set spinoff of the series, reprising their roles as, respectively, Ziva David and Tony DiNozzo. The series order comes on the heels of Weatherly returning […]
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TV Ratings: Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ Return Hits Multiyear High
The reunion of Jon Stewart and The Daily Show brought a lot of viewers back to the program as well. Stewart’s first show back as (part-time) host of Comedy Central’s late night flagship drew 930,000 viewers Monday — the most for a Daily Show installment in almost six years (since March 28, 2018, midway through Trevor […]
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‘NCIS’ Prequel Focused on Younger Gibbs a Go at CBS
CBS, which is saying goodbye to Young Sheldon this season, will say hello to young Leroy Jethro next season. The network is expanding the NCIS franchise with a prequel titled NCIS: Origins, which has a straight-to-series order for the 2024-25 season. The 1990s-set drama will follow a younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Mark Harmon’s longtime character […]
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Golden Globes Presenter Wilmer Valderrama on Nominee Pronunciations and Getting Back to Work on ‘NCIS’ Post-Strike
Wilmer Valderrama had an early start to the week. The NCIS star was up hours before dawn to help announce this year’s Golden Globe nominees alongside president Helen Hoehne and fellow CBS star Cedric the Entertainer. Moments after all the names were announced, Valderrama chatted with The Hollywood Reporter about the difficulty of his duties […]
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Back to Work: When TV Shows Are Returning to Production Post-Strikes
With more than six months of labor actions in the rear-view mirror, the industry is preparing to restart dozens of productions that were shut down while writers and actors sought new and better contracts from studios and streamers. The end of the SAG-AFTRA strike on Nov. 9 cleared actors to return to work (though the […]
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David McCallum, Star of ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘NCIS,’ Dies at 90
David McCallum, the Scottish actor who portrayed the enigmatic Russian-born U.S. secret agent Illya Kuryakin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the chief medical examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS, died Monday. He was 90. McCallum died of natural causes surrounded by family at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a spokesperson for CBS announced. McCallum also starred opposite Joanna Lumley for four […]
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‘NCIS’ Oral History as Show Turns 20: Cast Exits, Surprise Success and Tackling Politics
Although NCIS was well-liked from the get-go, not even an elite investigation could have foreseen the show becoming a hit that would span decades and launch a franchise. It began in spring 2003 as a backdoor pilot for CBS’ sturdy military-law procedural JAG. Co-created by JAG mastermind Donald P. Bellisario (Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap) and […]
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