NCIS is a worldwide TV franchise, however what in regards to the predecessor that made all of it potential? JAG, the army authorized drama from which NCIS spun off, marked the twentieth anniversary of its finale in April and can hit the thirtieth anniversary of its premiere in September. And star David James Elliott, the actor behind Harmon Rabb, Jr., says a JAG revival may occur but.
“I imply, there’s all the time an opportunity,” Elliott advised Leisure Weekly at Comedian-Con on Saturday, July 26. “[Creator] Don Bellisario remains to be alive. I imply, it’s his ninetieth birthday arising. Definitely, I believe it might be attention-grabbing.”
That mentioned, Elliott isn’t positive he’d be recruited for a JAG revival. “I might be down for it, however I don’t know if it entails me,” he added. “You understand these reboots, they go, ‘Yeah, thanks. We bought new guys!’”
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JAG, which follows the attorneys of the U.S. Navy’s Choose Advocate Normal’s workplace, premiered on NBC in 1995 — with Elliott costarring with Tracey Needham, who performed Meg Austin. The present moved to CBS for its second season and stayed there till 2005, with Catherine Bell becoming a member of Elliott as Sarah “Mac” MacKenzie.
A number of years in the past, Elliott and Bell reprised their JAG roles in NCIS: Los Angeles’ tenth and eleventh seasons. “I did that due to R. Scott Gemmill, who was a author within the first two seasons of JAG,” Elliott advised TV Insider this month. “He’s nonetheless a pal of mine. I pitched an concept to him, and he favored it. We have been speaking about perhaps taking the Hurt character and doing one thing with him or much like [it], after which he goes, ‘Yeah, however why don’t we do that?’ And I went, ‘Oh, nice.’ It was enjoyable. It’s enjoyable to work with him.”
However Elliott, who’s now starring on Revival on Syfy, doesn’t suppose he’ll play Hurt on the flagship NCIS sequence, which remains to be going sturdy. “I don’t see that taking place,” he advised TV Insider. “I don’t actually know any of the folks on NCIS, however I assume in the event that they got here to me, I actually would take into account it. So who is aware of.”