Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Yesterday, NCIS gave fans of ’80s superhero television shows a little surprise. The episode centered around a game show contestant who was murdered.

The agents find out that the dead contestant dressed up as the Greatest American Hero and visited kids with cancer, including his son, at hospitals. So, at the end of the episode, the host of the game show shows up at the hospital dressed as Ralph Hinkley in his infamous red suit. While he is talking to an agent and the widow, a doctor shows up and escorts him to visit the kids. That doctor should look familiar to you because it is William Katt, who played the Greatest American Hero from 1981-1983.

How did it come about? The episode’s director, Tawnia McKiernan, is the daughter of Stephen J. Cannell, who created GAH. So she called up the man she has known ever since she was a little girl and asked him if he would do a cameo. And he said, “Yes!”

“There’s a love for superheroes, and there’s a love for The Greatest American Hero,” McKiernan told Parade. “There’s a whole underworld. People dress their kids as The Greatest American Hero for Halloween, and the kids don’t even know who they are. There’s a big following for The Greatest American Hero. It’s one of my favorite shows that my dad did, so it feels to me like such a great way to pay homage to my dad in the episodes.”

It was just fate that McKiernan was asked to direct this episode, but I have a feeling her late father had something to do with it. And Gen Xers are happy that fate worked its magic to make this moment happen!

This season, Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly have returned to the NCIS universe, but on different shows. Harmon is on NCIS: Origins, and Weatherly is on the OG.

So I thought we wouldn’t see Gibbs and DiNozzo together again. And I am wrong.

On October 20th, the two will share the screen for the first time in ten years on NCIS: Origins. Gibbs returns to NCIS’ D.C. headquarters to enlist the help of new director Tony DiNozzo after he was shot by unknown assailants in the season premiere.

If Gibbs doesn’t slap DiNozzo on the back of the head, is their reunion worth it?

Tonight at 9p on CBS, NCIS debuts a new spinoff, NCIS: New York . From 2009-2023, LL Cool J played Sam Hanna on NCIS: Los Angeles. After a three-year break, he is moving across the country to work with a new team.

Hanna travels to NYC because his friend’s son is found dead, and initial reports said it was a suicide. He doesn’t think it was, so he asks Robyn Wells (Jennifer Beals), director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service New York field office, if he can look into the case. She pairs him up with Special Agent Nick Schaeffer (Scott Caan) to investigate his death, which turns out to have been a murder.

They will be assisted by Special Agents Addy Ross (Jacqueline Byers) and Wyatt Servers (Shane Harper) in the field, and hacker Sean Sullivan, Devin Druid, back in the office.

Hanna works so well with them that Nick asks him to return to his New York City roots. Of course he says yes because, spoiler, CBS picked it up to series with him as a lead.

I will admit, I have only seen a few episodes of any of the NCIS shows in the franchise. So I was not sure how I would feel about this one after I watched the pilot. To my surprise, I really enjoyed the chemistry between them and the pace of the show. So I am planning on watching every week.

It could be because I am a New Yorker, and I appreciated the speech that Caan makes to LL at the end of the episode. But it truly is more than that. I can’t put my finger on it just yet, but it feels different than the other police procedurals.

Nick keeps saying they are like a family, and that is what I felt when I watched them work. Wells is the mom. Nick is the wise older brother who looks after his younger siblings. They follow his lead, but they can also take care of themselves. Sean is the preteen who is rebelling against them all because he is the baby. However, when he does something good, he feels like he’s earned his place among them. And then there is Hannah, their cousin who moves in with them after a fight and his mom got scared—whoops, wrong show and Rapper. Seriously, you get where I was going with that.

NCIS: New York will be enjoyed by old and new fans of the franchise because it is a mix of the two.

CBS released the full trailer for the latest NCIS spinoff in the franchise. This one stars LL Cool J, but this time he is in NYC with Scott Caan as his partner.

In NCIS: NEW YORK, legendary NCIS Agent Sam Hanna (LL COOL J) returns to his hometown of New York City to their field office, partnering with roguish agent Nick Schaeffer (Caan) and helping lead a new team as they are tasked with high-stakes missions to defend one of the most vital cities and ports in the world.

LL Cool J played Hanna in NCIS: Los Angeles from 2009-2023. It will be interesting to see whether Chris O’Donnell makes a cameo at some point.

NCIS: New York premieres on October 6th at 9p. Are you going to watch?

LL Cool J left LA for NY, and now he is starring in NCIS: New York with Hawaii Five-0’s Scott Caan.

Since CBS picked it up without a pilot, we have not seen the show in action. But that changed today when the network released the first promo for the spinoff.

Legendary NCIS Agent Sam Hanna (LL COOL J) returns to his hometown of New York City to their field office, partnering with a roguish agent (Scott Caan) and helping lead a new team as they are tasked with high-stakes missions to defend one of the most vital cities and ports in the world.

MCIS: New York premieres October 6th at 9p. Are you going to watch?

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