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?
Do you know what CBS needs? They need another NCIS, just like Elon Musk needs more money. They don’t. But that is not stopping them from making another one. So this season, we are getting NCIS: NY.
CBS has already announced that NCIS: LA’s LL COOL J and Hawaii Five-O’s Scott Caan are going to star in the eighth NCIS. Today, they announced that Jennifer Beals of The L Word will be joining them.
Beals plays Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robyn Wells, the director of the NCIS New York field office who leads with her intuition and is widely respected by her team.
The new series will focus on legendary NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna (LL COOL J) who returns to his hometown of New York City to the NCIS 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.
Yesterday, CBS announced that Mark Harmon is joining NCIS: Origins as a series regular this season. Today, they revealed another OG is returning to the NCIS franchise.
Michael Weatherly is reprising his role as Tony DiNizzo. He played the role for 13 seasons before leaving the show to star in Bull.
Last year, he shared the spotlight with Cote de Pablo in the Paramount+ spinoff Tony and Ziva. However, it only lasted one season.
CBS did not say why Tony is back in DC, but I wonder if he will be Leon Vance’s replacement?
Are you happy DiNozzo is back to have the back of his head slapped?
