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The NCIS franchise will be airing its 1,000th episode on April 15, and CBS Studios President David Stapf has been involved in every single one of them. Because he was head of CBS current programming at the time, he even participated in the development of the mothership series from Day 1 because it…

CBS has picked up NCIS: Sydney for a second season. The procedural will also return for a second year on Paramount+ Australia. NCIS: Sydney marked the first international expansion of the franchise. It debuted on Paramount+ Australia on Nov. 10, 2023, and on CBS in the U.S. and on Global in Canada on…

It’s late January, time when the broadcast networks typically kick off pilot season with their first pilot orders targeting the upcoming fall. Not CBS, which will not be picking pilots in the traditional window; instead the network has five scripted series already on tap for next season and a potential Fir…

CBS is finding success in taking its NCIS franchise Down Under. NCIS: Sydney made its debut on November 14 and, since then, it has amassed nearly 10M total viewers across CBS and Paramount+. That’s nearly double the live + same-day audience that the episode managed. Based on three days of…

NCIS: Sydney had a strong showing out of the gate on Tuesday night. The premiere episode drew 5.48M total viewers on CBS, making it the most-watched show during primetime across the broadcast networks, according to early Nielsen data. The episode was also live streamed on Paramount+, where it…

The Hollywood strikes may have wreaked havoc on the broadcast networks’ fall plans but it also paved the way for a Paramount+ Australia series to snag an unprecedented berth on CBS starting Nov. 14. The creation of NCIS: Sydney marked the first time one of CBS Studios' global drama franchises earned…

CBS’ game show Loteria Loca, which has been airing Mondays since October 2, is off the schedule after five low-rated airings in the 9 p.m. time slot, sandwiched between The Price Is Right at Night at 8 p.m. and an NCIS rerun at 10. The game show, based on a Mexican format, was slated to move to 8…

For 18 seasons, CBS’ Tuesday lineup was anchored by NCIS before the venerable crime drama moved to Mondays in fall 2021 to make room for an FBI night. Now the NCIS franchise is returning to the Tuesday 8 p.m. time period this fall with the Paramount+ Australia series NCIS: Sydney, which will premiere in…

CBS’ fall 2023 schedule unveiled in May featured NCIS: Hawai’i in the Monday 10 PM slot, following the mothership NCIS series at 9. The ongoing Hollywood strikes changed broadcast networks’ plans but CBS will still have an NCIS original set on an island in the Monday 10 PM hour this fall — the network anno…

With new seasons of all CBS scripted series delayed by the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the network has relied on shows from within Paramount Global and beyond for fresh scripted fare to put on the fall schedule. That will now include an extension of CBS’ biggest drama franchise of the past decade, N…

NCIS: Sydney has found its agents. The decades-old franchise’s debut international version for Paramount+ and Network 10 will see Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow ) play NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey and Spartacus: War of the Damned’s Todd Lasance lead as Sergeant Jim "JD"…

Just days after SEAL Team was renewed for Season 6 by Paramount+, the military drama also has received an order for a stand-alone movie from the streamer. Additionally, NCIS: Sydney, an offshoot from the venerable crime drama franchise, has been commissioned by Paramount+ Australia and the country’s ViacomCBS-owned…