With NCIS continuing to reign as the most watched scripted show on television and getting ready to spawn a spinoff series, the man behind both, Gary Glasberg, has been signed in a new overall deal by NCIS producer CBS TV Studios. Under the two-year extension that runs through May 2016, Glasberg will continue as executive producer and showrunner of flagship NCIS and of its proposed planted spinoff, which will be introduced in a two-part NCIS episode slated to shoot in February and air in the spring. He is writing the New Orleans-set offshoot and is executive producing with NCIS star/executive producer Mark Harmon. Glasberg called the experience working with CBS’ Leslie Moonves and Nina Tassler and CBS Studios’ David Stapf “amazing”, adding “I look forward to continuing to work with my NCIS family and can’t wait to dive in to what lies ahead,” Glasberg, repped by CAA and Michael Gendler, joined NCIS in 2009 and took the reins as showrunner two years later. NCIS closed out the 2012/13 season, its 10th on the air, as the most watched program on TV for the first time, with an average of 21.60 million viewers, edging Sunday Night Football (21.00 million). So far this season, the veteran drama is the most watched scripted program on TV in Live+same day and also ranks among the top 10 U.S. series in a number of international markets, including Canada, France, Italy as well as Australia, where it is in the Top 3.
Source: Deadline
Source: Deadline
Will Ziva be in the offspring? I'm just kidding.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you as well. I've been enjoying NCIS: LA more than NCIS for the last few seasons. It has action and it's more intense. The partnerships are more genuine and they get along outside of work (and those scenes, for example Kensi and Deeks. We actually see them at one of their apartments spending time together). I think that's wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI love NCIS, I much prefer their characters to the LA group. Perhaps it's because i am in the 50+ group. I was sorry to see Ziva go and i found it strange she wasn't in the 3rd episode. I do think, as much as I enjoyed her character and story-lines, that there were a few too many 'Ziva' episodes and she always seemed to be the one teamed up with Gibbs. Tony seemed to get left out. I do hope that if she returns they don't make her the 'center of attention character' again. Its great when they all have their fair share of the lime light with Gibbs. Now that she and Tony have kissed it will be a challenge to keep it at that. At lease they didn't say they were 'IN' love with each other, just that they had 'love for one another'. I'll keep watching as it takes ALL these great actors and their characters to make NCIS the great show it is.
ReplyDeleteI love both NCIS and NCISLA but how is Mark Harmon going to be able to star in & produce NCIS and produce another show?
ReplyDeleteI'm a long-time NCIS fan, but I gotta say past few seasons of LA have entertained me a lot more than the DC team. I'll give it a try now that Ziva is gone. As much as I liked her, the 11-year-old show needs something new every once in a while.
ReplyDeleteI hope the New Orleans spin-off has nice characters and good storytelling, even though I'm quite sure it could be more of the same procedural formula that's out there. :(
I thought actors being exec producers was more of a token thing so they could get more pay. I don't think actors/exec producers do that much more than just promoting the show.
ReplyDeleteI'm one of the few that doesn't like NCIS but enjoys NCIS LA so I hope the spin off is more character driven and action orientated like NCIS:LA is.
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