The Agent Afloat billet is specifically a deployed position on capital ships, while it's not impossible that some of that sort of thing could come up, it's more likely IMO that it will focus on the local resident agency (which is actually in Perth, not Sydney... but branding is king) with some inter-agency liaison stuff ala what Ziva's role was supposed to be but mostly wasn't AFAICT.
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It just occurs to me that we just passed the 20th anniversary of the JAG soft pilot about a month ago.
Jesus.
Heck, to me, the peak of the franchise will always be the Holly years. The writing was trying to push some limits and the cast was actually engaged in the material and not running on autopilot. She left 15 years ago.
None of the spin-offs ever really appealed to me. LA was DOA for me. I tried really hard to get into NO because I loved everyone in the cast, but I couldn't make it through the first season.
I recently caught an episode of one of the newer shows (don't even know which), and I was completely checked out within five minutes. It's just so cookie cutter copy pasta.
Jesus.
Heck, to me, the peak of the franchise will always be the Holly years. The writing was trying to push some limits and the cast was actually engaged in the material and not running on autopilot. She left 15 years ago.
None of the spin-offs ever really appealed to me. LA was DOA for me. I tried really hard to get into NO because I loved everyone in the cast, but I couldn't make it through the first season.
I recently caught an episode of one of the newer shows (don't even know which), and I was completely checked out within five minutes. It's just so cookie cutter copy pasta.
I never thought I would like NCIS because I hated Gibbs in that episode. But, I find it very enjoyable now.
"The guy from Summer School?" 
I mean, I didn't know him from that either. I really didn't know him. But Harm was my favorite character (at the time) and he was a jerk to Harm. So, yeah."The guy from Summer School?"
Harm was great and all, but he wasn't the reason I watched every episode of the show.
Everyone has their thing.
On rewatch I really enjoyed Admiral Chegwidden and Bud a lot more.
Tangentially related to NCIS: The CW will be airing The Chosen, the drama about Jesus of Nazareth. Seasons one to three will air back-to-back from July 16 to December 24. The connection to the topic of this thread? One of the characters, Rahmah, is played by NCIS: Hawai'i's Yasmine al-Bustami.
He’ll always be Wally Schirra (Apollo 7 commander) to me.
(HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon)
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Sweet! Such a good series.
NCIS Sydney cast/characters first look
Production/Availability
Paramount Australia on Monday revealed the cast of NCIS: Sydney, which is currently filming in the titular city.
The series will stream/air exclusively in Australia on Paramount+ and Network 10, as the first-ever international edition of the hit global franchise. (At this time, there are no plans for NCIS: Sydney to be available Stateside. Yet.)
Premise
As international tensions rise in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national task force, to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.
Characters
The NCIS: Sydney team will be led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey (Olivia Swann) and her 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey (Todd Lasance)
(L-R) Mavournee Hazel, William McInnes, Tuuli Narkle, Todd Lasance, Olivia Swann, Sean Sagar
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Production/Availability
Paramount Australia on Monday revealed the cast of NCIS: Sydney, which is currently filming in the titular city.
The series will stream/air exclusively in Australia on Paramount+ and Network 10, as the first-ever international edition of the hit global franchise. (At this time, there are no plans for NCIS: Sydney to be available Stateside. Yet.)
Premise
As international tensions rise in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national task force, to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.
Characters
The NCIS: Sydney team will be led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey (Olivia Swann) and her 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey (Todd Lasance)
- Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) as NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey.
- Todd Lasance (Spartacus: War of the Damned) as 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey
- Sean Sagar (Fate: The Winx Saga) as NCIS Special Agent DeShawn Jackson
- Tuuli Narkle (Bad Behaviour) as AFP Liaison Officer Constable Evie Cooper
- Mavournee Hazel (Neighbours) as AFP Forensic Scientist Bluebird “Blue” Gleeson
- William McInnes (Blue Heelers) as AFP Forensic Pathologist Dr. Roy Penrose.
(L-R) Mavournee Hazel, William McInnes, Tuuli Narkle, Todd Lasance, Olivia Swann, Sean Sagar
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As did I. But who knows, I'm sure if the writer's strike lasts long enough this could end up being broadcast on CBS in the States.
How long did it take to be able to watch Law & Order: UK in the states by official means?
I laughed when I read this online comment concerning NCIS: Sydney:
"If the first murder on this new show isn't somebody getting killed by a boomerang, then why are they even doing this?"
About a year and a half. L&O UK premiered in Britain in February 2009 and in America in October 2010. Curiously, Canada got the show much sooner than the US did. It premiered in Canada June 2009, only four months after the British premiere.
Sydney looks extremely low budget from that cast photo. It reminds me of all those 90's Canadian production I used to laugh at as a kid.
as far as I rember reading something that because of some law CBS/Paramount has to produce a certain amount of Australia produced/sourced/staffed content, in order to keep a lucrative broadcasting? licence down under, hence NCIS Sydney and I think some long time day soap the'll take over production of.
Despite the strikes, we're still getting new NCIS content in the fall. NCIS Sydney will premiere November 10 in Australia, then will premiere in the US on November 13 on CBS at 10:00 PM EST.
CBS Will Have ‘NCIS’ Originals In Fall With Paramount+’Sydney’ Spinoff – Deadline
CBS Will Have ‘NCIS’ Originals In Fall With Paramount+’Sydney’ Spinoff – Deadline
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