More NCIS sounds like a good thing, but we’re feeling a little conflicted about the new information coming out of CBS. Because the network has indeed announced a new show in the franchise, but it isn’t once that’s going to bring back some of the characters from NCIS: Los Angeles (like at least NCIS: Hawai’i is going to do with Sam!). And it’s not a renewal of our new favorite, NCIS: Sydney. Instead, it’s a new show called NCIS: Origins.
And yes, you guessed it, it’s basically a show about Young Gibbs. Think of it like Young Sheldon 2.0, complete with its own narrator.
Which, I mean, could work and all …for like, one season. Do we really need more than that? Did Young Sheldon need more than that? Even if Mark Harmon is set to return to narrate the show?
The show will be set in 1991 and will pick up with Gibbs a “newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.”
Gibbs, as most people familiar with the franchise know, starred in the original NCIS for 19 seasons, before exiting the show in 2021.
NCIS is set to return for its 21st season on February 12th on CBS. There is still no set date for NCIS: Origins.
I was mixed on this too. I dreamed of CBS expanding this franchise into prequel territory, but I imagined it would be for Hetty, given her history as an ex spy and later future at NCIS.
But who knows, maybe the success of this will open the door to more. And maybe this show can tell us how Hetty and Gibbs know each other! (he knows Callen, which means he definitely knows Hetty!)