CBS has had a busy day. First, they picked up The Neighborhood and Bob Hearts Abishela. Then they cancelled Mom. Now, Deadline is reporting that NCIS: New Orleans will end its 7-season run on May 16th.
“Sad to end our love affair with this phenomenal city but so grateful for all the friends we made along the way,” Scott Bakula said. “I will miss the music. Big thank you to CBS for seven years.”
That means Bakula is freed up to do a Quantum Leap revival, so I am good with this. Not that there is one in the works, but there can be now.
Back to NoLA, the cancellation probably means that NCIS: Hawaii will be a go. What that means for NCIS: Mothership and Mark Harmon’s future with the drama, we will find out soon enough.
Mark Harmon is going to celebrate the big 7-0 in September, and there is a report that he is ready to leave NCIS. The actor has been playing Agent Gibbs since 2003, so you can understand the rumor.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, if he decides not to renew his contract, then he will stay on to do a few episodes for the show’s 19th season. If he leaves, then the trade says that the show will end with him.
CBS is preparing for the worst, and they are working on NCIS: Hawaii to join NCIS: LA and NCIS: NoLA. Neither of the latter shows have been picked up for another season. However, CBS has not renewed any of their series yet.
Not only is CBS working on the third spinoff from NCIS, but they are also working on bringing back CSI with William Petersen and Jorga Fox.
I am rooting for the latter to come back. It would be nice to have CSI back on the airwaves.
CBS is slowly filling up their schedule for next season and today they picked up two more of their shows for another year. NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans will join NCIS in the fall. The only surprising thing would have been had they not renewed any of these three shows. Since they are all coming back there is nothing surprising here.
The three NCISes join Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, FBI, Gd Friended Me, Magnum P.I., Mom The Neighborhood and Young Sheldon on the 2019-2020 lineup.
CBS announced today that they picked up television’s #1 drama, NCIS, for a 17th season. Not only does the show do well in first run on broadcast, but it also does well online and in syndication. Thus the renewal is no surprise. They just had to wait for Mark Harmon to say yes.
Now that he did, it will join Young Sheldon, Mom, Criminal Minds, FBI, God Friended Me, The Neighborhood And Magnum P.I. on the 2019-2020 schedule. That leaves a lot of shows in limbo like Bull, NCIS: LA, NCIS: NoLA, Blue Bloods and Hawaii Five-0. I think only Bull is in trouble of the ones I listed.
Last week, CBS announced that David James Elliott is going to reprise his JAG role on NCIS: LA in May. Today, they revealed that Catherine Bell will also be back as Mac for the season finale.
The episode is described as, “As the NCIS team tries to uncover a complicated network of ISIS sympathizers who look to be planning an attack on US aircraft carriers and possible worse, Hetty (Linda Hunt) has to call in a favor to an old friend, Lieutenant Colonel Sarah ‘Mac’ MacKenzie, to help get access to an elusive Russian diplomat.”
I wonder what that means for her and Navy Capt. Harmon Rabb Jr.? Are they still together? Do they work together? We will find out next month.
Now that the both of them are going to be on the spinoff of the show that spun off of JAG (Does that make sense?), I bet you a pretty penny if these episodes do well, then they are going to revive it. Do you want to see a JAG revival?
