It’s one of the longest-running series in American television history, excluding soap operas, and it still has a bright future as it’s become a franchise with no less than four spin-offs. and two new ones are in the making.
Broadcast in the United States since 2003, this fiction is a huge success and has been the most watched series for many years, which is an achievement considering that it has been around for more than 20 years and 21 seasons at the moment.
It was also a huge success in France, where it was broadcast on M6, and achieved a significant audience for an American crime thriller. That series is NCIS: Special Investigations and it’s available on Prime Video for a few more weeks…
One of the biggest TV universes on the American small screen
If Dick Wolf created a big world with New York: Forensic Police and all its spin-offs, especially New York: Special Branch, Don McGill and Donald P. Bellisario also envisioned a rich television universe with NCIS.
The series follows the daily life of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, led by Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), a former Marine and Gulf War veteran.
A team made up of charismatic characters who maintain friendly and sometimes difficult relationships, such as DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly), Abby (Paulie Perrette), Mallard (David McCallum), Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) or McGee (Sean Murray). Efforts to resolve criminal cases involving the United States Navy.
Currently four in number – NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Hawaii and NCIS: Sydney – NCIS spin-offs will soon be joined by NCIS: Origins, which focuses on Gibbs’ youth, and NCIS: Tony & Ziva, which focuses on… Tony and Ziva .
You should know that NCIS: Special Investigations is a spin-off series in itself! Indeed, it is a spin-off of JAG, also created by Donald Bellisario. Gibbs, DiNozzo, Abby, and Duck first appeared in two episodes of JAG Season 8.
If you’re looking to rewatch or rediscover NCIS: Special Investigations, you’ll have to hurry because the first 18 seasons of the series are leaving the Prime Video catalog on September 30.
Source: Allocine
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