CBS announced today that NCIS and Mark Harmon will be back for season 16. Is the news a surprise? Of course not, it is still the most-watched drama in the overnights. It even beats This Is Us and The Good Doctor and it has been on so long it is a bratty teenager. While their cases are about dead people, this show is far from being a corpse.
NCIS joins SEAL Team, SWAT, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Mom and Murphy Brown on CBS’s 2018-2019 lineup.
Pauley Perrette took to social media today to announce that she will be leaving NCIS this season. After 15+ years of playing Abby on the #1 drama, she decided last year that it is time to move on. She did not say what she will be doing next, but she wanted to let us know she is not starting a skin care line. Will she will follow in Michael Weatherly’s footsteps and get her own show on The Eye? We are months away from finding that out.
With her departure, that means that Mark Harmon, Sean Murray and David McCullum are the only actors left on the show since the first season.
Are you going to miss Abby?
UPDATE: NCIS released this statement about her upcoming departure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGaWaT_Zuo
When Michael Weatherly left NCIS for Bull, they replaced him with three actors. Yesterday, it was revealed that one of those three would not be back for another season. Deadline is reporting that Jennifer Esposito, who played Agent Alexandra Quinn, is not returning because the show is going in a “new creative direction next season.” What that is, we will find out in September.
The actress took to Twitter with this message about her departure and said, “No i am not ill 😁but I so appreciate your concern. Was not meant to be there long but happy I was. Met some great new friends! Love 2u all.” She suffers from Celiac Disease, so it is good to hear she is not having a bad flare up.
When it comes to her leaving, I don’t know why but I just do not like the characters she plays. Mostly because she plays them all the same way every time. Are you going to miss her?
https://youtu.be/JAf0-zC4sgQ NCIS is in its 13th season and it is still the #1 drama and #1 scripted show on television in America and the world. So what I am about to tell you, should not surprise you. CBS picked it up for two more seasons today. As soon as the show’s lead Mark Harmon signed on the dotted line, so did they. Which you can’t blame them, can you?
What about the show’s two spinoffs NCIS: LA and NCIS: NoLA? We don’t know yet, but I am sure at least one if not both will be back.
Michael Weatherly announced today that this will be his last season on NCIS after 13 lucky years. He Tweeted, “DiNozzo is a wonderful, quixotic character & I couldn’t have had more fun playing him over the past 13 seasons. Les Moonves & CBS gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. I will miss the amazing crew & cast, who are like family to me, & to the fans all over the world – THANK YOU, it’s been a fantastic ride!”
We will miss him too because DiNozzo is the heart of the show.
Personally, I thought that Mark Harmon would leave the show before him. Are you as surprised as I am that he is departing TV’s #1 drama?
