NCIS — the highest-rated drama on community TV — is again for season 19. However there are doubts that the long-running procedural will be capable to maintain on to its tens of millions of viewers. CBS Leisure president Kelly Kahl admits they’ve taken a large gamble by making a main transfer with their well-liked franchise.
CBS provides ‘NCIS’ followers their first take a look at the season 19 premiere
CBS began their promotional push for NCIS season 19 with a 30-second teaser that gave followers their first take a look at the premiere episode. Titled “Blood in the Water,” the season 19 premiere will decide up precisely the place the season 18 finale ended — after Gibbs’ (Mark Harmon) boat exploded.
Because the promo begins, Gibbs’ workforce arrives on the scene, with Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) asking investigators: “you found any survivors?” The reply is “no,” and the NCIS squad fears the worst. “What took so long?” McGee (Sean Murray) asks an officer, earlier than declaring that their boss is “family.”
Is Pam Dawber again as Marcie Warren?
The episode’s official description reads, “As the NCIS team searches for Gibbs after wreckage from his boat is discovered, they find out he was tracking a serial killer with journalist Marcie Warren (Pam Dawber), who wrote an exposé on him.”
The promo doesn’t present Dawber returning as Warren. Nevertheless it does give a fast montage of Gibbs’ workforce racing towards time to seek out their boss. And along with his destiny unknown, his workforce is struggling. Cassie Hines (Diona Reasonover) hugs McGee and Vance (Rocky Carroll) appears involved. Whereas medical expert Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) says “this isn’t how it ends.”
Then, on the very finish of the clip, NCIS confirms that Gibbs is alive. They present the previous Marine sniper bloodied and gasping for air as he emerges from the water amongst his boat’s wreckage.
CBS is taking a large gamble with ‘NCIS’ in season 19
NCIS has been TV’s most-watched drama for a decade (the one exception being three years in the past, when This Is Us swooped in and took the title for one season). The sequence has been on the air since 2003. And through that total time, it has been within the Tuesday night time 8pm (Jap) time slot.
However for season 19, CBS has moved NCIS to Monday nights at 9 pm (Jap). As a substitute of kicking off the community’s Tuesday night time lineup, the drama will bridge a block of sitcoms (The Neighborhood and Bob Hearts Abishola) and the latest sequence within the NCIS universe, NCIS: Hawai’i, on Monday nights. Kahl is aware of that is a main gamble for the community.
“We hope to improve the [Monday] time period significantly, and we hope that it can be a strong lead-in to help launch NCIS: Hawai’i. [Also] we realize that we can’t take [the time slot change] for granted,” Kahl instructed TVLine on the Tv Critics Affiliation summer time press tour. (*19*)
The community is utilizing their NFL programming to unfold the phrase
Die-hard NCIS followers could already be absolutely conscious of the schedule change. However, there are numerous who’ve but to listen to the information. So, CBS is utilizing their NFL programming to assist unfold the phrase.
Along with airing their new season 19 NCIS promos throughout every of the NFL video games the community is broadcasting in September, they’ve additionally added quite a few broadcaster mentions. Viewers are getting repeated alerts concerning the NCIS schedule change, whereas seeing the phrases on the display screen to get that message throughout.
‘NCIS’ followers are a ‘die-hard bunch’
With the change to Monday night time, NCIS will now air reverse The Voice, Dancing With the Stars, and Monday Evening Soccer. Kahl says it’s potential the sequence will lose it’s “most-watched drama” standing. However as of proper now, NCIS nonetheless holds that title.
“Well, we haven’t lost it yet,” Kahl stated with a chuckle. “So we’ll hang onto it as long as we can. I will say that fans of that show are a diehard bunch, so I don’t foresee losing a lot of them with the time period change.”
If followers don’t need to change up their routine — and have their hearts set on watching NCIS on Tuesday nights at 8 pm — all they should do is subscribe to Paramount+. CBS drops new episodes of their primetime exhibits onto their streamer the morning after they air. Another choice for Tuesday night time viewing can be to set the DVR.
Season 19 of NCIS premieres Monday, Sept. 20 at 9 pm (jap) on CBS.
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