CBS wants the NCIS franchise outside the neighboring United States.
TVLine has learned that the Eye network is in the early stages of developing a new iteration of NCIS, this one takes place in Hawaii. This would be CBS’s third place NCIS spinoff and the fourth NCIS series in general, and joins the mother ship of Mark Harmon, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans.
A CBS spokesman declined to comment on this story.
Before the franchise’s latest entry, NCIS: New Orleans, launched in 2014, CBS was developing NCIS: Red, an offshoot centered on a mobile anti-terrorist unit called the Red Team. The project – which starred John Corbett, Kim Raver, Scott Grimes, Edwin Hodge and Gillian Alexy – did not make it past the back door pilot stage.
The NCIS franchise was born out of a two-part episode of JAG in April 2003 that featured Mark Harmon’s Gibbs, Michael Weatherly’s DiNozzo, Pauley Perrette’s Abby and David McCallum’s Ducky. When HUNT Shortly afterwards, David James Elliott and Catherine Bell resigned their roles as captain of the Navy “Harm” Rabb Jr. and Lieutenant-Colonel Sarah “Mac” MacKenzie NCIS: LA in 2019, there was buzz that CBS was testing the waters for a full-fledged JAG revival.
Respond to said scuttlebutt, NCIS: LA showrunner R. Scott Gemmill said at the time: ‘I never, ever say anything. It’s really on [CBS]. This is not my call to make. ”