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NCIS franchise

NCIS first premiered as a two-part backdoor pilot on JAG (the episodes Ice Queen and Meltdown, IIRC), so it is indeed a spin-off of that series and not The Presidio.
Granted that's accurate but having watched Mark Harmon in the Presidio, I'll always see that as a closer role association.
 
besides ladies love cool jason aka ll cool j and scotty cann being the 1st members of ncis new york

i red the list of who else will be on ncis new york and ill most likely watch ncis new york

i just hope ncis new york will be like ncis syndey and ncis hawaii
 
I mean, this is hardly the first time this has happened in the franchise. Actors from JAG's main cast such as Patrick Labyorteaux, Scott Lawrence and Zoe McLellan have played different characters on the various NCIS shows, with McLellan even being main cast on one (New Orleans).
Yup.

Pretty typical for a Bellisario production. Sean Murray played two different characters on JAG. Technically, so did Catherine Bell.
 
Yup.

Pretty typical for a Bellisario production. Sean Murray played two different characters on JAG. Technically, so did Catherine Bell.

Patrick Labyterou puts on stuff on social talking about his career (so lots on JAG) and one talked about Catherine Bell's hiring to play Sarah McKenzie.

The show moved networks after the first season cancellation, the higher ups wanted a different lead actress and had some ideas on what they wanted in appearance etc.

Catherine Bell had what suits wanted and the producers knew her from the series 1 final and things went from there.
 
I miss NCIS: Hawaii. So much potential & so much loose ends that will never be finished. Sad.

lol its most likely that on a dozen of alternate earths in the multiverse

ncis hawaii never got canceled after season 3 and got double renewal for season 4 and 5 and is going into season 6
 
Five full seasons of NY and LL Cool J surpasses Mark Harmon. Maybe he only needs four with all his guest spots on other NCIS shows.
 
Five full seasons of NY and LL Cool J surpasses Mark Harmon. Maybe he only needs four with all his guest spots on other NCIS shows.
Looking at it in terms of episode count, Mark Harmon currently has 428. Though IMDB says he was in 435 episode of OG NCIS, they are including the entirety of his last season since he was listed in the credits for all episodes, despite only being in the first four. For this, I'm only counting those four, which gets 418, though when you add the two part backdoor pilot on JAG, his appearances on New Orleans and his two appearances on Origins, that get you the 428. For Origins, I'm only counting the two times he physically appeared on screen, though if you want to include every episode because of his narrations, that's 462.

LL Cool J, at the moment 341 episodes total across the franchise, which means he only needs 87 more to meet Harmon's uncontested count, leaving out his narration only contributions. Which does meet the four to five seasons you said. Four season if they did twenty-four episodes like they did on all the shows pre-pandemic, five seasons given these days the shows don't seem to go more than twenty episodes a season.
 
he will most likely be the 1st person in ncis history to be on almost every ncis show
The record is currently held by Michael Weatherly who has been in five series (JAG, OG NCIS, LA, New Orleans and Tony & Ziva) then Wilmer Valderama who has been in four (OG, LA, New Orleans and Hawai'i). With the upcoming New York series, LL Cool J will be in four series (OG, LA, Hawai'i, NY). So even if he were to show up in Sydney, that would make his fifth series and would tie him with Weatherly.

A possible gray area in this I just realized while writing this, LL Cool J did play Sam Hanna in an episode of Hawaii Five-O, so you could say there's already five shows he's shown up in in the extended universe the shows are set in, so if he were to show up in Sydney, that would make six.
 
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You think a new NCIS show that takes one character from all the previous shows to fill out the cast could be successful or would it come across as a gimmick?
 
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