‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ Renewed For Season 13. NCIS: Hawaii Picked Up To Series.
In news which I don’t think will surprise anyone, ‘NCIS: Los Angeles‘ has been renewed for a 13th Season. However, CBS has also announced that the rumoured new spin-off, ‘NCIS: Hawaii‘, will become a reality, and will be the first series in the franchise to have a female lead.
CBS recently handed out renewals to ‘Blue Bloods’, ‘Bull’, ‘NCIS’, ‘Magnum’ & ‘S.W.A.T.’, but ‘NCIS: LA’ was oddly missing from the list. It turns out that it wasn’t an oversight, but due to some of the lead actor’s deal not being finalised at the time of the release. That has now been sorted, and it will see LL Cool J and Chris O’Donnell both return.
The new spin-off, ‘NCIS: Hawaii’, will centre on the yet-to-be-cast Jane Tennant, the first female Special Agent in Charge of NCIS Pearl Harbor, who, along with her team, balance duty to family and country, investigating high-stakes crimes involving military personnel, national security and the mysteries of the island itself.
The series comes from ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ EP/Showrunner Christopher Silber and EP Jan Nash, alongside ‘SEAL Team’ writer/producer Matt Bosack. As you are probably aware, ‘NCIS: NO’ is set to bow out this year after 7 Seasons, which frees Silber and Nash up for the new series. All three exec produce alongside Larry Teng (‘Supergirl’, ‘SEAL Team’) who will also direct.
This latest renewal for CBS joins the five shows mentioned above, plus previously renewed dramas which include freshman series ‘The Equalizer’ which is back for Season 2, ‘FBI’ for Season 4 and ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ for Season 3. They sit with comedies ‘Bob Hearts Abishola’ which lands a 3rd Season, ‘The Neighborhood’ for Season 4, and ‘Young Sheldon’ which bagged a massive three-season renewal, taking it up to Season 7.
Still sitting out in the CBS wilderness are freshman shows ‘B Positive’ and ‘Clarice’, David Boreanaz drama ‘SEAL Team’, and legal drama ‘All Rise’, along with comedies ‘The Unicorn’ and ‘United States of Al’. We should find out the fate of these at some point over the next few weeks.
‘NCIS: Los Angeles‘ airs on Sky One in the UK, but it’s too early to know where ‘NCIS: Hawaii‘ will end up. It’s likely to either be Sky, or possibly FOX UK, who air the main ‘NCIS’ and the departing ‘NCIS: New Orleans’, but we’ll have to wait and see.
