Will ‘NCIS’ Be Renewed for Season 22? An Update on Future of Show
CBS has already renewed a few shows for the 2024-2025 season—Tracker (Season 2), Ghosts (Season 4), and Fire Country (Season 3)—and one that seems to be a lock, for its 22nd season, is NCIS.
“You never know how things are going to go,” Sean Murray (who has played Timothy McGee on the long-running procedural since its first season) tells TV Insider. “But knowing the way that things are going now and seeing the response we’re getting here in this sort of abbreviated Season 21, I think things will go well and I would expect to see a Season 22, very much so.” (Season 21 is 10 episodes, with the fifth airing on March 25.)
That sentiment echoes what Brian Dietzen (who has been playing Dr. Jimmy Palmer since Season 1) told us ahead of the special tribute episode to the late David McCallum and his character, Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard, he co-wrote. “I’m hoping [there will be another season]. I think that no one ever wants to count their chickens, but I think that the show has been doing really well,” he said. “And why stop at 1,000? I feel like we’re halfway there. We want a clean, even 2,000. We’ll just keep it rolling.”
The franchise, which reaches its 1,000th episode with NCIS’ April 15 installment, keeps expanding, too. While Los Angeles and New Orleans have both ended (after 14 and seven seasons, respectively), Hawai’i is in its third season (and we have a good feeling about its chances for a fourth), Sydney has aired its first, and two new series have been ordered.
Joining CBS’ lineup for the 2024-2025 season is the prequel NCIS: Origins, following a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) in 1991 as he starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks. Mark Harmon, who starred as Gibbs on NCIS for 19 seasons, will narrate and executive produce. And over on the streaming service Paramount+ is coming an untitled spinoff with Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo reprising their characters from the mothership, Tony and Ziva. In that show, Tony and Ziva have been raising their daughter, Tali, together. When Tony’s security company is attacked, they must go on the run across Europe, try to figure out who is after them and maybe even learn to trust each other again so that they can finally have their unconventional happily ever after.
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Never thought Gary Cole would do well on the show. I was wrong. I think he brings new life to it. Of course I like Gibbs but it was getting a bit stale. Hope it does get renewed. Of course they get get rid of Hawaii, wouldn’t bother me in the least
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I too had my doubts about Cole, but I do enjoy the show much more than I did previously.
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Myself, NCIS is great. I'm watching the repeats and the new shows. I'd love to see a Coast Guard version of NCIS (with the setting in Connecticut).
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I'd rather have Bishop back, not a fan of K. Law.
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I AM a fan of KLaw, but I would also love to see Ellie Bishop back. Here's an idea. How about Bishop showing up on NCIS: Tiva as she teams up with Tony and Ziva in their quest to figure out who's after them and why.
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While I am a fan of the show. It really needed to end when Mark Harmon left the show as a regular. His character Leroy Jethro Gibbs was the reason the show existed.
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I disagree... I think the past 2-3 seasons have been better than the last five with Gibbs.
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Thanks mostly to Gary Cole the mothership continues to do well.Add in coming spinoffs and it's going to stick around probably until at least season 24 or 25.
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Gary Cole is bringing the weight to NCIS now, for sure. The others are kinda just running around, doing the uh... doing.
Yet the writing treats Cole's character as just 1 of the 7 characters in the main credits.
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The spinoffs are all well and good but it’s the original that keeps me coming back. It’s been good to see McGee and Palmer (my favorites) grow as characters and I feel like the new characters have kept the show fresh. Hoping for at least 25 seasons.
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NCIS: Origins can be cancelled as far as I'm concerned it doesn't come close to NCIS .😒
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I simply love the show!! I have followed them and their different crews from the start of Jag !❤️❤️❤️
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Absolutely love the show with Gary Coleman. It has taken on new life.
Hope it will get renewed for many more seasons. The cast is perfect. The change over with characters was perfect. It has been the only show that I can continue to watch even though characters change
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Cole, not Coleman.
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You mean "Gary Cole", right? "Gary Coleman" was an African-American actor, who passed away, after tripping on a paved sidewalk , hitting his head on it, and died shortly thereafter, due to his injuries to his brain. Gary Coleman lived in Park City, Utah, with his wife.
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I never had any doubt about Cole joining the series. When you consider that NCIS itself has always managed to keep up the quality and maintain ratings I would be shocked if CBS did not keep it in the line up. What I find interesting is that most of the spin offs have, well, spun off and gone. I'm not holding my breath about Hawaii at this point.
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Mark Harmon was the show. It's all over but the shoutin'..
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I beg to differ. Although I miss Gibbs, the show is going strong without him. As long as the writers keep coming up with interesting stories, there's no reason why the show can't keep going for SEVERAL more seasons.
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I could do without Torres. He's as annoying as Tony but in a different way.
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