IIRC, that's supposed to be a streaming show.
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Yep. Paramount+, assuming that service still exists in some form by the time the series premieres.
Sydney renewed! YAAAAAAAAAAY! 
I'm glad to hear Sydney is renewed. They'll probably spread them out and put Origins and Sydney on when the other two are on a break. Or they'll do like NBC does with Law & Order and One Chicago, and have a night devoted just to three of NCISs and then save one for when the others are on a break.
My favorite version of "NCIS" was the L.A. spinoff, and I was very disappointed when they cancelled it. I know 14 years is a respectable run, but the parent show has lasted beyond 20, and is still kicking.
but is anyone really surprised at that?
To be completely honest, I am. I quit watching maybe 2 years after Pauley Perrette left - she was my favorite actor on the show.
The surprising thing is there still hasn't been an official announcement regarding Hawai'i. I mean, I'm expecting it to be renewed, and certain comments the actors have made in interviews sure seems to imply a fourth season is a sure thing, but it is odd regardless nothing's been officially announced yet.
Studios are generally (and in some cases, notoriously) slow, when it comes to making firm decisions on anything. Some shows aren't notified about any possibility for renewal, until weeks or even months after the previous season's finale has aired. That doesn't give the writers much time to come up with new material, so the whole process behind the scenes is often very stressful for all involved.
Yeah, no. It's definitely not like that these days. How could it be? A typical network show airs its finale in May and begins filming in July to meet a September premiere.
Well, not too long ago that was very much the case. For example, the TV show "Smallville" faced many setbacks, in the second half of its run. Starting with Season 6, the producers weren't told until very late, whether they were getting renewed for another year. As a result, they would draft two storylines - one for continuation, and the other for cancellation. The only time this changed was for Season 10, for which all the main cast members mutually agreed would be their last. Additionally, the studio kept repeatedly slashing the budget, so they built a standing set for the Daily Planet roof, and constructed a somewhat-obviously small street as well, to be redressed for various Metropolis exteriors. The show rarely filmed on location in those days, with one exception being the Season 7 episode "Descent", where Lex Luthor pushes his father Lionel out a high floor of the LuthorCorp building (filmed at the Government of Canada location in Vancouver, which is right next to the Marine Building, a.k.a. the "Daily Planet").
Abby was my favorite character for a while, but by the time she left I was not sad she to see her go. After a while it just felt like she was getting to over the top, to the point that I didn't really feel like she fit in with the rest of the show.
All I ever heard is that behind the scenes, Pauley had some kind of contentious working relationship with Mark Harmon. Apparently, it was somehow connected to Mark's pet dog biting a crew member, and Pauley became traumatized over it, which led to a divide between the two actors. As a result, the entirety of Season 15 featured no scenes of Gibbs and Abby in the same shot...even for her final episode.
Season 6 of Smallville was the same year The WB and UPN merged into The CW, so it's not at all shocking they had a late renewal announcement that year. Regardless, every season of that show premiered in either late September or late October, so they obviously began production in July.
Regardless the NCIS shows have always had the new seasons announced with plenty of time to prepare, at least in recent seasons. Just looking over this thread, season 21 of OG NCIS and season 3 of Hawai'i were both announced February 2023 with the cancellation of Los Angeles announced in January 2023. Meanwhile the announcement that all three of those shows were returning for the 2022/2023 season was made in March 2022.
Personally, I don't think Sean Murray is going anywhere, his comments in the recent interviews seem rather tongue in cheek to me, though that could just be my interpretation. Regardless, even if does indeed leave the show, I doubt that McGee would be killed off. The NCIS shows don't kill main characters off that often, across the entire franchise only seven main characters have been killed off, and two of those were necessitated due to the actors themselves actually dying (Miguel Ferrer and David McCallum).
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