By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV As part of a mass renewal of 15 scripted series, 18 overall, CBS this morning picked up its formidable NCIS franchise for next season.
That includes flagship NCIS, the most watched drama on broadcast TV, for an 18th season, and spinoffs NCIS: Los Angeles for a 12th season and NCIS: New Orleans for a seventh.
CBS and CBS TV Studios, which produces the NCIS franchise, found themselves in a very rare position where the contracts of the leads on all three series, as well as other cast members, were simultaneously up at the end of the 2019-20 season.
That includes NCIS star/executive producer Mark Harmon, NCIS: Los Angeles leads LL Cool J and Chris O’Donnell and NCIS: New Orleans’ leading man/EP Scott
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