Scott Bakula Eyeing CBS Return 5 Years After ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ Cancellation

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  • Scott Bakula is set to return to CBS as the star and executive producer of a new procedural drama.
  • It’s been five years after the cancellation of NCIS: New Orleans.

NCIS: Origins gave us back Pride last season, albeit a younger version (played by Shea Buckner), but the man who originated the character on the New Orleans spinoff, Scott Bakula, will be back on CBS and in a procedural, five years after his series was canceled.

There’s a new drama in the works at CBS with Bakula as its star and an executive producer, Deadline reports. It will come from Dean Devlin‘s Electric Entertainment and be written and executive produced by Michael Sussman; it would be a reunion for Bakula, since he and Sussman worked on Star Trek: Enterprise together.

There aren’t any details yet about show or who Bakula will be playing beyond the fact that he’s said to be a “leap” from Pride. We’ll have to wait and see if the show does make it past the development stage.

Bakula starred as Dwayne Pride for all seven seasons of NCIS: New Orleans, which ended in 2021. The character was based on a retired naval investigator from New Orleans, D’Wayne Swear, who was also a consultant on the series.

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Pride was based on a real NOLA lawman, retired naval investigator D’Wayne Swear, who served as a series consultant. “He was a great guy, and when he sadly passed [in 2018], it broke everybody’s heart and broke the back of the show,” Bakula told TV Insider in 2021.

“[The character of] Pride was bighearted, open, available, susceptible to being misled, making mistakes and going too far, going the extra mile, tracking people down. It gave me a lot of juicy stuff to do,” he added.

Will this new character being a “leap” from Pride mean he’s nothing like that, or will he still have some of those same qualities? We’ll have to wait and see.

Do you want to see Scott Bakula in another procedural? Let us know in the comments section below.

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    starz

    I would definitely check it out. I've loved watching Scott when he did Quantum Leap. I was disappointed when they canceled the NCIS New Orleans show. It would be great to see him again. Been too long.

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    tld

    I loved Scott Bakula as Dwayne Pride. My heart broke when the NCIS New Orleans series ended. I believe there could have been a few more seasons to continue the show but I think he would be great in anything he does.

    I didn't even know who he was until he did NCIS and the love of his character caused me to look further into him, as an actor. That's saying something because I could never get in to all the other NCIS spinoffs. I tried, but it was Scott Bakula and the New Orleans setting that really got my attention.

    I hope his new position is every bit as good and I hope the new show is as family friendly and as compelling to watch as NCIS New Orleans was.

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    lisahair

    Loved Scott in NOLA terrific show he was awesome! Love everything I’ve ever seen him do! So love to see him back as Pride or someone like him. He was tough but with a heart. Understanding his people of the city and his the team he worked with.

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    ljnovak

    When he was on NCIS New Orleans, his character got shot more often than Daffy Duck during rabbit season.