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In unveiling its autumn 2026 schedule today, CBS announced a caller NCIS spinoff series, NCIS: New York, headlined by NCIS: Los Angeles star LL Cool J reprising his domiciled arsenic NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna, which will beryllium joining mothership NCIS and prequel NCIS: Origins connected Tuesdays.
The caller offshoot, from The Pitt creator R. Scott Gemmill and Byron Balasco, came arsenic a astonishment since CBS already has a 3rd NCIS bid that aired successful nan lineup past season, nan Australian-made NCIS: Sydney. (Renewed for 2026-27, Sydney will beryllium backmost successful midseason, replacing Origins, whose bid is being reduced for Season 3.)
The announcement besides raised a question, if CBS had room for 1 much NCIS series, why not Tony and Ziva, which was canceled successful December aft 1 play connected Paramount+? Like New York, it featured poplar stars from CBS’ NCIS universe, nan mothership’s instrumentality favourite mates Tony (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva (Cote de Pablo). All NCIS shows are produced by nan aforesaid studio, CBS Studios.
CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach was asked by Deadline astir nan rationale of launching a caller spinoff vs. picking up 1 that already exists.
“LL is for illustration a personnel of our family astatine CBS, he’s done pop-ins connected NCIS the past 2 years since LA ended, and it’s been really successful,” she said. “And nan opportunity for Sam Hanna, who is primitively from New York but lived successful LA for NCIS: LA, to nonstop him backmost location felt for illustration a really ripe imaginative abstraction to play in. Plus, location is simply a immense larboard and Navy beingness successful New York — I cannot hold for nan premiere statement connected nan Intrepid. We ever want to look for what makes an description unsocial and special, and we thought location was conscionable truthful overmuch opportunity pinch this.”
Did CBS see Tony & Ziva?
“We really wanted to bring nan Sam Hanna characteristic back,” Reisenbach said.
NCIS: Tony & Ziva picked up aft Ziva’s expected decease erstwhile Tony near nan NCIS squad to spell raise their daughter. Years later, Ziva was discovered alive, starring her to complete 1 last ngo pinch NCIS earlier she was reunited pinch Tony and their girl successful Paris.
