The NCIS franchise continues to broaden, and one of many exhibits coming in fall 2025 goes to provide followers precisely what they’ve needed for years: extra Tony (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva (Cote de Pablo)!
De Pablo left NCIS in Season 11 earlier than returning for the Season 16 finale and 4 episodes of Season 17. Weatherly exited on the finish of Season 13 and was final seen on the finish of the tribute to Ducky and the late David McCallum within the twenty first season. On Tuesday, June 17, Paramount+ revealed the NCIS: Tony & Ziva premiere date.
The brand new collection was given a straight-to-series order on February 28, 2o24. “We’ve been speaking about this story for a few years, and now with John McNamara on the helm, we’re prepared,” mentioned Weatherly and de Pablo on the time. “The world of Tony and Ziva (and daughter Tali) guarantees to be an action-packed curler coaster fueled by love, hazard, tears and laughter. We additionally need to acknowledge and thank the followers from around the globe who supported the ‘TIVA’ motion for years. To this present day, they are saying whats up in grocery shops and on the road to inform us how a lot these characters imply to them and ask what Tony and Ziva are to date. That is for you!”
Learn on for all the pieces we all know in regards to the present to this point, and hold checking again as we be taught extra.
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When will NCIS: Tony & Ziva premiere?
NCIS: Tony & Ziva will premiere with its first three episodes on Thursday, September 4. The remainder of the season might be launched weekly, till the finale on October 23.
“We’re past excited to lastly share Tony and Ziva’s subsequent chapter with the unimaginable followers around the globe who by no means stopped believing this present day would come,” mentioned stars and govt producers Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly in a press release. “Returning to those roles collectively on display after greater than a decade has been an unforgettable journey full of lies, spies, hazard, want…..and self-driving homicide automobiles. (Don’t fear, that final one will make sense quickly). That is one wild journey you gained’t need to miss, and as they are saying in Paris: Accrochez-vous bien!“
What number of episodes are in NCIS: Tony & Ziva Season 1?
This ought to be no shock, given it’s a streaming present: It has been given a 10-episode order. However keep in mind: That’s only for this preliminary season. We’ll have to attend to see if it’s renewed, however whether it is and so long as it’s a streaming present, chances are high we should always anticipate 10-episode seasons.
What’s NCIS: Tony & Ziva about?
The brand new collection picks up after Tony and Ziva have been reunited in Paris (off-screen) following the revelation she was alive and her finishing one closing mission with NCIS. “Since then, Tony and Ziva have been elevating their daughter, Tali, collectively,” in line with the official description. “When Tony’s safety firm is attacked, they need to go on the run throughout Europe, attempt to determine who’s after them and perhaps even be taught to belief one another once more in order that they will lastly have their unconventional fortunately ever after.”
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As de Pablo shared in a video with the announcement of the title on Might 7, 2024, followers ought to anticipate “intrigue, romance, the background of Europe. Unimaginable conditions that can make our life very sophisticated, however someway slightly one thing about love.”
If anybody watches the brand new present with out having seen NCIS, “you’re going to suppose, ‘Wow, that is like Mission Unimaginable with a pair,’” Weatherly instructed TV Insider in June 2024.
De Pablo is blissful that it’s taking the franchise outdoors of the US. “This present, for a few years, was a really kind of American present. That’s how individuals considered it. After we began touring, we realized that this present was not simply an American present. It appealed to an enormous worldwide market. So what we’re doing now and what we at all times deliberate to doing was placing the present outdoors of the US to faucet into that worldwide world and provides it that factor that we at all times needed, the je ne sais quoi,” she mentioned to TV Insider.
She added that it’s going to reply questions that followers have, together with, “What occurred to those characters and the place are they now and who’re they now and the place are they residing and all that.”
Who’s within the NCIS: Tony & Ziva solid?
Weatherly and de Pablo are again as Tony and Ziva (and are additionally serving as govt producers). Becoming a member of them as collection regulars are Isla Gie, Amita Suman, Maximilian Osinski, Nassima Benchicou, Julian Ovenden, Terence Maynard, Lara Rossi, and James D’Arcy.
Gie stars as Tali, Tony and Ziva’s precocious 12-year-old daughter who’s sick of being handled like a baby. She’s extra intuitive and vigilant than the adults round her give her credit score for and he or she’s able to show this to them. “Tony & Ziva ought to actually be referred to as Tony & Ziva & Tali as a result of their precedence now, each of them, is Tali, not themselves or one another,” Weatherly instructed TV Insider.
Suman performs Claudette, the Chief Technical Officer at Tony’s personal safety firm and the one motive the place runs as easily because it does. There’s no drawback Claudette can’t resolve or code she will’t crack. Osinski’s Boris is a Russian ex-pat and an excellent pc hacker, among the finest and most elusive on the planet. Boris lives outdoors the regulation and well mannered society and enjoys the anonymity and freedom that affords.
Benchicou stars as Martine, a former French intelligence agent with the Directorate-Common for Exterior Safety (DGSE). She is elegant and crafty, enjoying either side of any battle masterfully to guard her personal self-interest. Ovenden performs Jonah, a former pc programmer for the NSA and now the Secretary Common of Interpol. Charming, decisive and assured, Jonah sees the methods during which the world is damaged and is aware of he can repair it.
Maynard’s Dr. Lang is a deeply skilled therapist. Light and probing, Dr. Lang treats sufferers with extreme traumas and helps them discover consolation and company. Rossi performs Sophie, a extremely expert skilled with a background within the Particular Air Service (SAS). Sophie brings a singular mix of maternal heat and hyper-vigilance to her function as a caretaker for Tali.
D’Arcy stars as Henry, a high-ranking official at Interpol who has spent his profession in regulation enforcement chasing worldwide criminals. Profession-focused with no spouse or household of his personal, Henry has at all times been fortunately married to his job.
John McNamara serves as showrunner. Becoming a member of him as govt producers are Cote de Pablo, Michael Weatherly, Laurie Lieser, Christina Pressure, Shelley Meals, and Mairzee Almas. The collection is produced by CBS Studios.
Why will this NCIS spinoff be streaming on Paramount+ and never airing on CBS?
The remainder of the NCIS franchise—the unique, Hawai’i, Sydney, and the upcoming Origins—is, so why is the Tony and Ziva spinoff a streaming collection? “It was at all times designed to be,” CBS Studios President David Stapf instructed Deadline in March 2024. Moreover, “as a result of it’s going to be on Paramount+, it will probably exist throughout the universe with out, in our minds, cannibalizing anything.”
Will every other NCIS characters seem within the spinoff?
Stapf instructed Deadline in March 2024 that “as [the show is] designed now, no,” there gained’t be different former NCIS stars showing, “however by no means say by no means.” He hasn’t dominated out crossovers, although did word that the writers room simply opened.
And when TV Insider spoke with Sean Murray (who performs McGee) in March 2024 and requested about the potential of him displaying up on the spinoff or Weatherly and de Pablo showing on NCIS, he mentioned, “Yeah, it’s very potential, I’ll say that. Particularly inside our franchise, as I’m positive you would guess. And yeah, we prefer to have enjoyable with a few of that stuff, and it’s all within the household, so we’ll see what occurs.”
Is there an NCIS: Tony & Ziva trailer?
Sure, and you may watch it above. The trailer exhibits that Tony and Ziva’s relationship is rocky and undefined, to place it mildly. However they do work collectively when somebody targets Tali and there are moments that present the sparks are nonetheless there.
NCIS: Tony & Ziva, Sequence Premiere, Thursday, September 4, Paramount+