Michael Weatherly is suiting again up as Tony DiNozzo to return to CBS‘ NCIS this fall for a season-long arc.
The information arrives 6 months after NCIS: Tony & Ziva was canceled after one season at Paramount+. The spinoff reunited Weatherly with Cote de Pablo, who performed Tony’s associate in life and in preventing crime, Ziva, on the mothership collection.
CBS declined to remark concerning whether or not de Pablo may even return to NCIS, nor in the event that they plan to retcon the occasions from Tony & Ziva. They may additionally proceed the storyline from the spinoff with or with out de Pablo; nonetheless, the community is staying mum on their plans for now.
Season 24 of NCIS will air Tuesdays at 8:00 PM, ET/PT this fall on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
Weatherly first portrayed Tony on JAG’s two-episode backdoor pilot for NCIS in Season 8. He starred on NCIS as a important forged member because the present’s inception till Season 13, when he departed within the finale. Weatherly embraced the universe once more in NCIS: Tony & Ziva, which premiered final fall.
NCIS: Tony & Ziva picked up after Ziva’s supposed demise when Tony left the NCIS group to go increase their daughter. Years later, Ziva was found alive, main her to finish one ultimate mission with NCIS earlier than she was reunited with Tony and their daughter in Paris.
When CBS introduced the pickup of the newest installment of the NCIS increasing universe, NCIS: New York, in April, Deadline requested whether or not they had thought of bringing again Tony & Ziva for a second season as a substitute of creating a brand new spinoff.
Amy Reisenbach, CBS Leisure President, replied, “We actually wished to carry the Sam Hanna character again.”
Sam Hanna has been performed by LL Cool J on three NCIS franchise exhibits, together with the mothership collection, the spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS: Hawai’i, following the cancellation of the LA spinoff. NCIS: New York will air Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. this fall in between NCIS and NCIS: Origins.
NCIS, which revolves round particular brokers from the Naval Prison Investigative Service, stars Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Katrina Regulation, Brian Dietzen, Diona Reasonover, and Gary Cole.
Season 24 govt producers: Steven D. Binder, Chas. Floyd Johnson, Mark Harmon, Scott Williams, Christopher J. Waild, Mark R. Schilz, José Clemente Hernandez, Avery C. Drewe, Marco Schnabel and Donald P. Bellisario. NCIS is produced by CBS Studios.
