Tony DiNozzo Returns! Michael Weatherly Joins ‘NCIS’ Season 24 Cast
What To Know
- Michael Weatherly will reprise his role as Tony DiNozzo in NCIS Season 24.
- He was last seen in the one-season spinoff, Tony & Ziva, with Cote de Pablo.
The 2026-2027 season is going to be a good one for NCIS fans. Not only is Mark Harmon bringing Leroy Jethro Gibbs back onscreen for the season, appearing in all episodes, in NCIS: Origins Season 3, but now another original NCIS star is reprising his role, this time on the mothership.
Michael Weatherly will be reprising his fan-favorite role as Tony DiNozzo in what CBS is saying is a “season-long arc reuniting him with the NCIS team” in Season 24. This will be the first time that he plays the role again after his and Cote de Pablo‘s one-season spinoff, NCIS: Tony & Ziva, on Paramount+. CBS has not yet revealed how many episodes he’ll be in or when he’ll first appear.
Weatherly debuted as Tony in the two-episode backdoor pilot on JAG introducing NCIS in 2003. He then was a series regular for the first 13 seasons of NCIS. He returned to the role in Season 21’s “The Stories We Leave Behind,” the series’ tribute to the late David McCallum and his character, Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard. He reunited with McGee (Sean Murray) and Palmer (Brian Dietzen).
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Weatherly called that return “truly amazing,” adding, “Ducky would have loved all the smiles!”
Murray told TV Insider in March 2024, “Having Michael back, I mean, Michael is a lifelong friend. I talk to him all the time. Actually, most of the people that have come through the show I’m very, very close with. But Michael is the guy I’ve been extremely close with and I’ve stayed in touch. We talk at least every month or two. And just knowing that this was going to happen was really cool.”
Tony’s return is coming as the series left off on a major cliffhanger: Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) confronted the teen son McGee just recently learned he had, Mateo (Patrick Keleher), about some suspicious behavior. Both were armed, and the finale ended with a gunshot, but it was unclear who fired. Executive producer Steven D. Binder confirmed to us that “someone was hit.” Not only can’t we wait to see the resolution of that, but now we can’t wait to see Tony’s onscreen reaction to McGee having an 18-year-old son from a relationship he’d been in when the other man was still part of the team.
NCIS Season 24 also stars Murray, Valderrama, Dietzen, Diona Reasonover, Katrina Law, and Gary Cole. Binder, Chas. Floyd Johnson, Mark Harmon, Scott Williams, Christopher J. Waild, Mark R. Schilz, José Clemente Hernandez, Avery C. Drewe, Marco Schnabel, and Donald P. Bellisario are executive producers.
NCIS, Season 24, Fall 2026, Tuesdays, 8/7c, CBS
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R
YES!! I dealt with Gibbs leaving but I never got over Tony being gone. So I'm thrilled!
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B
Very excited about this. This will put NCIS back on my must see TV again.
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Oh no, not DiNozzo! I was delighted when he left…please nooooooo🙏🏻🙏🏻
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I stopped watching when a lot of the original cast were leaving. When Tony and Ziva left. I stopped watching. Happy Tony and Gibbs will be back for a while. But wait, it's not complete without Ziva. We need the kick-ass Ziva back too.
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K
I will be in the minority, but I never liked him.
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M
I liked him on NCIS. Bit the Sexual Harrassment claim against him on Bull turned me against. He denied it but they had him on Video and Audio and had to pay the Actress the amount of her Contract.
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C
Me, either. Pretty boy badass.
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C
I watched NCIS from the beginning and I also watched him on his show Bull. I enjoyed watching him on both shows.
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G
Wow that came out of nowhere. Should be really cool
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J
I was not a fan of Tony's, so I won't be looking forward to any episode he's in. U.N.L.E.S.S...... he has changed. Like, a LOT. If he's still a jerk and still trying to bully McGee, I'll immediately turn it off and not watch any episode with him in it. I think the show is better these past few seasons than it had been since the early years.
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I was a faithful viewer of the original series. I will tune in again if Tony and Gibbs are back.i watch anything that Michael is in
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G
Absolutely not necessary that he is coming back. NCIS is soooo much better when he left.
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NCIS is too heavy on male characters.
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T
Liberal
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J
Most of the female characters on this show (especially first 10 or 15 seasons) were terribly written, imho. t was hard for me to like many of them.
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J
And when they do get a female character they kill them off! They’ve killed off FOUR wives and two agents. Even NCIS LA killed off a wife. Ridiculous.
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Who was the 4th wife? I know of Gibbs, Vance, and Jimmie's wives. Who am I missing?
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WE ALL WANT TO SEE THE WEDDING OF TONY AND ZIVA, HONEYMOON IN AN ISLAND, ISLA GIE AS TALI DINOZZO, A LITTLE BROTHER FOR TALI, TALI MEETING PALMER AND MCGEE KIDS.
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D
I'd like to why LL Cool J keeps popping up like a bad penny. Has he got some kind of legal strangle hold over them or CBS?
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The traitor is back. Oh joy!
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Great he was one of my favs on ncis will be watching. What about Iva
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