The NCIS franchise remains to be going sturdy on CBS, with the flagship collection, NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney all airing on the 2025 TV schedule and renewed for the following TV season. These exhibits, in addition to the concluded Los Angeles, New Orleans and Hawai’i spinoffs, can be streamed with a Paramount+ subscription, however quickly the franchise can be delivering its first collection unique to that platform. NCIS: Tony & Ziva is on the best way, and Brian Dietzen, who labored with the spinoff’s lead actors Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo for years on NCIS, shared with us why followers ought to get enthusiastic about this new installment.
Throughout my interview with Dietzen concerning the NCIS episode “Near House,” which introduced again Jimmy Palmer’s daughter Victoria (performed by Elle Graper), I requested the actor what he’s trying ahead to seeing most in NCIS: Tony & Ziva. He knowledgeable me he’s really aware of a few of what’s coming, as he talks to Weatherly “very often” and texts with de Pablo, sharing:
I am so excited. It sounds very action-y, it sounds form of cool. I am unable to actually say an excessive amount of about it as a result of I did not work on it or something. I did get a have a look at a script or two, however yeah, there’s lots of moments in there that I am like, ‘Oh man, it calls again on sure NCIS dynamics,’ however I’ve a sense it isn’t going to be filmed and informed like a regular NCIS in any means. As a result of they don’t seem to be taking a look at a case of the week with a lieutenant or a petty officer who’s been… the crime has been dedicated or one thing like that. It is a very completely different kind of present, and I might be extra excited for it.
Whereas the NCIS exhibits all haven’t any scarcity of variations, from places to NCIS: Origins being set in a unique time interval, they’ve all adopted the identical case of the week mannequin. NCIS: Tony & Ziva is breaking with custom by telling a motor serialized story. That’s really the explanation the spinoff goes straight to Paramount+, following within the footsteps of the footsteps of the Legal Minds revival. The present being known as NCIS: Tony & Ziva is ironic contemplating the title characters not work for the legislation enforcement company, however we don’t must get into the weeds with that.
From what Brian Dietzen shared with me, it feels like Tony & Ziva can be a extra intense present in comparison with NCIS, however not missing within the spirit of the present from which Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David originating. He continued:
I believe it is gonna be actually, actually nice. I believe they’re each such terrific actors, and the dynamic between these characters is so iconic that… Yeah, I believe it is gonna be one thing actually, actually particular, and it is gonna be a departure whereas retaining a few of that NCIS DNA.
Tony & Ziva haven’t been seen onscreen collectively because the NCIS Season 11 episode “Previous, Current, and Future” in 2013. Nevertheless, the 2 had been lastly in a position to reunite with one another after Ziva was lastly in a position to come out of hiding in NCIS Season 17. Now followers will lastly get to see them parenting their daughter Tali collectively, however clearly we are able to’t have their lives staying calm. After Tony’s safety firm is attacked, he and Ziva can be pressured to go on the run to determine who’s focusing on them and, as said within the present’s official synopsis, “perhaps even study to belief one another once more in order that they will lastly have their unconventional fortunately ever after.”
NCIS: Tony & Ziva completed filming in direction of the tip of February, so now we sit again and wait to study when it’ll premiere on Paramount+. Right here’s hoping that the spinoff meets, if not exceeds Brian Dietzen’s expectations primarily based off what he’s been looped in on. In the meantime, you possibly can see him taking part in Jimmy Palmer on NCIS Mondays at 9 pm ET on CBS.