No duh, CBS is going to renew all three NCIS shows for another year
As of next year, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS: Hawai'i will add up to 36 seasons of television
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What is it like to be an NCIS, held tight within the comforting bosom of Mother CBS? What must it feel like to be that secure, that loved, that cherished by a network that will not only continue renewing you unto the last days of the Earth, but also all your sister spin-offs and shows?
That’s what we can’t help musing on tonight, as THR reports that CBS has extended its orders for NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, and freshman series NCIS: Hawai’i for another year apiece. Among other things, that brings the flagship show up to a staggering 20 seasons on the air; kids who were born the day the series debuted on April 22, 2003 are now just a few years short of legal age to drink in the United States, and then hopefully not do any naval crimes, because that’s how the NCIS crew getcha.
Not that unruly adolescent NCIS: Los Angeles is a spring chicken, either: Today’s renewal notice brings the series up to its 14th season of Chris O’Donnell-adjacent criminal investigations. (Had you ever wondered where Chris O’Donnell’s been for the last 14 years? On NCIS: Los Angeles, with LL Cool J and Major Dad, apparently.)
The newcomer, of course, is Hawai’i, which stars Vanessa Lachey, the first female lead the franchise has ever had. The series debuted back in September of 2021, and whiles its viewership has only been a fraction of what the original series brings in, a fraction of “the most watched TV show on network TV” still amounts to a healthy 5 or 6 million viewers every week. And while the original show doesn’t bring in quite the viewers it attracted at its peak—averaging out around 12 million episode, down from the ludicrous 20-plus million it brought in during most episodes back in 2012—it’s still going strong, despite star Mark Harmon departing the series earlier this season.
In describing the decision to renew all three shows, a CBS executive told THR “a bunch of things we didn’t bother to write down, frankly, since all we can hear is ‘Money printer go BRRRRRRR.’”
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Hmm. So is the money printer, like, cold?
Yup, it’s, like, freezing.
did anyone notice the office space joke in the last episode?
Yeah, but unfortunately it was done about as lame as the Skyrim joke from many seasons ago.
I’m impressed that they made an entire character whose only personality trait is “he’s self-conscious about having a nerd job.”
Also, I like that he opened the conversation with “You must be NCIS.” I’m just going to assume that character’s name is NCIS. He works for the FBI. When he flashes his badge he goes, “NCIS, FBI,” and everyone is confused.
I just realized there’s another pop culture reference in this scene—-the “most things in here don’t react well to static” is a reference to “The Hunt for Red October” with James Bond.
Gary Cole’s Parker and Katrina Law’s Knight have been SUCH a welcome presence on the show this season. Bishop became boring once she got divorced and they wrote out all of her unique quirks (especially her food obsession) and then became obsessed with becoming Ziva II, which made her extremely bland and basically killed the ship tease with Torres before it could really gel. Meanwhile, Gibbs’ hatred of any technology created after 1972 got real, real old, especially since the criminals in more recent seasons were indeed using more advanced tech in their exploits (something LA has been doing from the beginning since Hetty isn’t anti-tech) and the last few seasons have had him off in his own separate plot, sometimes with Fornell, with the rare times he actually works with the team he doesn’t really do anything but glare at people.
Knight thankfully isn’t being shipped with Torres (judging by recent episodes, the writers seem to want to ship her with geeks, either Jimmy or the tech guy from NCIS Hawaii) and they’ve even alluded to Law’s time as Nyssa on Arrow by having Knight fight with the same style. And Parker is not only a lot more personable, but he is very much NOT anti-technology. It’s so, so nice to have an older character on the show who actually knows how to work a smartphone or what cryptocurrency is.
As for NCIS Hawaii? Meh. I’d rather have Hawaii Five-O back, preferably with Chin and Kono coming back.
Welp, I was completely wrong (again). I thought if there was one show that wouldn’t be able to survive the loss of its leading man, that would be NCIS, but here we are with it pretty much putting up the same ratings it has in recent seasons WITH Gibbs.I love Gary Cole, so I’m thrilled to have been wrong on this.
Yea, I’m actually a little surprised there was little to no dropoff.
I’m gonna chalk that up to Cole and Law. Both have certainly become much more welcomed than Bishop and Torres got when they came aboard.
To be fair, Law wasn’t replacing a legend who had been around a decade like Wickersham was with de Pablo. Cole of course, was replacing an even more legendary figure, so kudos to him.
You actually LIKE when these network shows constantly ship every new male and female team member?
No. I just know they’re not going to stop and take any small victory I can.
You know what’s actually not bad? Those 9-1-1 shows on Fox. Angela Bassett leads one. Rob Lowe the other. They are amusing.
Those two shows exist as fuel for fanfic writers. That’s the only reason they exist.
NCIS’es’es?
Phew. Looks my Dad will still have something to fall asleep to.
Dear god why on the OG one??
This isn’t actually a given, since they cancelled NCIS: New Orleans last season.
That was mostly due to filming in New Orleans becoming too expensive for CBS to deal with. Both the original and LA film in California (obviously for the latter) while Hawaii films in, well, Hawaii, both states of which are much cheaper than New Orleans.
NCIS Hawaii isn’t very good, but it does have the hottest cast in the NCIS-verse, and it’s not even close. It’s like they knew the writing wasn’t very good and decided to make up for it with eye candy.
They learned from sister show Hawaii Five-O.