After Mark Harmon left NCIS at the start of Season 19, the actor lastly returned to the franchise for the prequel sequence NCIS: Origins (which is airing now on the 2024 TV schedule). Harmon serves as an govt producer on the present, which follows a younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs as a newly minted NIS agent on the fledgling Camp Pendleton in 1991 on the heels of the deaths of his spouse and daughter. Together with producing, the actor can also be the prequel’s narrator, even briefly stepping again into Gibbs for the sequence premiere. Nonetheless, whereas followers are ecstatic that Harmon is again, evidently, not everyone seems to be on board with it.
Although Harmon has a “stepback function” on NCIS: Origins, it’s nonetheless been thrilling to see him again within the franchise after he had such an enormous function in it for nearly twenty years. Nonetheless, regardless of being gone for just a few years, he’s allegedly appearing prefer it’s been rather a lot longer than that and might’t cease snooping round, as sources inform RadarOnline:
For somebody who stated three years in the past he was retiring, Mark’s nonetheless very immersed within the franchise and should have a say in every little thing from casting to plot traces. He is nonetheless an govt producer, and he is stretching it so far as he can. He can not help himself!
As of now, Harmon has solely appeared within the first episode of Origins, however he might present up in additional, particularly because the sequence was picked up for a full season.
Throughout his time on Origins, we all know Harmon has been providing the forged steerage, and giving Austin Stowell some very smart recommendation for his Gibbs audition. In the meantime, he has not but returned to NCIS, and it’s unknown if he ever will. Nonetheless, the prequel is reportedly preserving him as busy as ever, a lot so that individuals allegedly don’t like all the interference:
He is bought opinions to share with the youthful era and isn’t afraid to dish out report playing cards and judgment from afar. There actually are some individuals who recognize somewhat knowledge, however others are discovering Mark’s fixed interfering annoying and need he’d ease up.
Clearly, all that is alleged, and we do not really know if that is taking place on the set of Origins.
So, shifting previous that for a second, the sequence has already proved to be an ideal spinoff, with only a handful of episodes having aired. It contains characters previous and new and a narrative that has by no means been informed earlier than. Total, it has been entertaining to see this new facet of Gibbs, and it feels full circle to even have Harmon concerned with this mission.
In the meantime, the prequel is one among two new spinoffs within the NCIS franchise. Followers can even be capable of look ahead to the highly-anticipated NCIS: Tony & Ziva sequence, which will likely be obtainable with a Paramount+ subscription quickly. Starring fan favorites Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo, the present will comply with their beloved titular characters on the run throughout Europe.
Total, even amid the rumors about Harmon being overbearing on set, the NCIS franchise is as sturdy as ever. Nonetheless, as we study extra about these claims, we’ll you should definitely maintain you up to date.