Posted on 02/16/2021 4:48:00 PM PST by EdnaMode
CBS is looking to expand the NCIS franchise outside the contiguous United States.
TVLine has learned that the Eye network is in the early stages of developing a new iteration of NCIS, this one set in Hawaii. This would mark CBS’ third NCIS spinoff and the fourth NCIS series overall, joining the Mark Harmon-headlined mothership, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans.
A CBS spokesperson declined to comment for this story.
Prior to the franchise’s newest entry, NCIS: New Orleans, launching in 2014, CBS was developing NCIS: Red, an offshoot centering on a mobile anti-terrorist unit dubbed the Red Team. The project — which was to star John Corbett, Kim Raver, Scott Grimes, Edwin Hodge, and Gillian Alexy — did not make it past the backdoor pilot stage.
The NCIS franchise was born via a two-part, April 2003 episode of JAG that introduced Mark Harmon’s Gibbs, Michael Weatherly’s DiNozzo, Pauley Perrette’s Abby and David McCallum’s Ducky. When JAG leads David James Elliott and Catherine Bell briefly reprised their roles as Navy Captain “Harm” Rabb Jr.and Lieutenant Colonel Sarah “Mac” MacKenzie on NCIS:LA in 2019, there was buzz that CBS was testing the waters for a a full-fledged JAG revival.
Reacting to said scuttlebutt, NCIS: LA showrunner R. Scott Gemmill said at the time, “I never say never to anything. It’s really up to [CBS]. That’s not my call to make.”
Bewahahahahahaha, the low-rent Brendan Frasier.
NCIS has become a leftist propaganda vehicle, shaming the politically incorrect and signaling the political virtues of its producers.
I’d rather watch old Soviet TV programs, because they were so bad, they were funny.
I have no problem with this look at what all in the family brought. About 4 comedies. I do believe this one in Hawaii will be all minorities though.
They could hire Magnum, PI.
It will probably have some overlap from ‘Magnum, P.I.’ and maybe even from the defunct ‘Hawaii Five O’.
That’s part of it. What it really does is condition the generally dumb public that ‘federal agents’ can do whatever they want.
> What it really does is condition the
> generally dumb public that ‘federal
> agents’ can do whatever they want.
.. or that they are benevolent.
Never watched even one episode.
There are cops half Gibbs’ age that are retired. NCIS The Villages?
I would like to be part of a tv show that is set in Hawaii.
Sign me up!
I propose they name the next one NCIS Gay.
Can you still communicate racism with just 12 letters?
They weren’t so bad at the beginning but I stopped watching a very long time ago.
I could go for some bikini-clad hot Hawaiian chicks running around unholstering their 38’s.
JAG and NCIS are Don Belasario’s creations. When he was at the helm, there was no PC BS. Don was conservative and it showed. When he was booted out around 2007, the writing changed on NCIS.
Cbs already has one...called hawaii 50(snark!!)
Love John. He was great in Northern Exposure. Has had a long term relationship with Bo Derek who I believe is a Conservative.
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