Welcome to the NCIS Message Board. We're here to discuss the show, the production team and the actors (Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, David McCallum, Pauley Perrette, Cote de Pablo and Lauren Holly).
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News Tid-Bit from TV Guide.com -- LadyC, 20:35:22 06/17/09 Wed [4]
I only have one question about the NCIS finale: Is Cote de Pablo returning to the show next season? — B.C.
MATT: Why, did it look like Ziva was on death's doorstep in that secretly filmed torture scene? If so, think back to what NCIS boss Shane Brennan said about that grim cliff-hanger: Come September, "all will be revealed and you will be surprised. It will come at you from left field." (But, in a word: Yes. Sources whisper to me that Cote will be back.) Bonus buzzlet: Season 6 arrives on DVD Aug. 25!
Did anyone see the "Impact" miniseries part one last night? DJE from Jag and Steven Culp (Clayton Webb on Jag) were in it and there were several Stargate Alumi too -- LadyC, 19:39:07 06/22/09 Mon [4]
'NCIS: LA' on Hunt for good woman -- KatRose, 10:06:08 06/19/09 Fri [6]
Daily Variety
June 19, 2009
'NCIS: LA' on Hunt for good woman
by Nelli Andreeva
Oscar winner Linda Hunt has joined CBS' new drama series "NCIS: LA" as a regular.
The veteran actress will fill the void left by the departure of Louise Lombard, who co-starred in the pilot of the procedural toplined by LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell. The series is set at the Office of Special Projects, a division of NCIS charged with the apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals who pose a threat to national security.
The switch is not a direct recasting sa Hunt will play a new character on the CBS Studios-produced series, a spinoff of its hit "NCIS."
Hunt's character oversees the "backroom" support staff in charge of providing everything from micro-surveillance cameras to cars for Callen (O'Donnell) and his team. Efficient, hard-nosed and resourceful after years of being a Miss Fix-It in the film industry, she seems tough but genuinely cares about Callen and his men.
In the pilot, Lombard played a major in the military police-turned-investigator.
WME-repped Hunt, who won an Oscar for "The Year of Living Dangerously," recently recurred on CBS' "Without a Trace." She had recurring roles on "The Practice" and "Carnivale."
I have a question -- Becki, 07:28:17 06/20/09 Sat [1]
I read some where that cast member who were on JAG cannot be on NCIS. I was wondering how true that is, because I have seen cast member from JAG on NCIS. I am just curious cause I would like to see other cast member from JAG on the show to. Thanks a head of time for all your help.
USA to air NCIS Spinoff -- KatRose, 17:52:50 06/17/09 Wed [1]
Daily Variety
June 17, 2009
Congloms making nice for 'NCIS'
NBC U to assist CBS in launch of show spinoff
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER
In another case of TV making for strange bedfellows, NBC Universal will assist CBS in launching the Eye's upcoming "NCIS" spinoff.
USA has struck a deal with CBS to air the two "NCIS" episodes from this past season that set the stage for this fall's newcomer "NCIS: Los Angeles."
USA already carries reruns of "NCIS," currently the top-rated off-net series on cable.
The two "NCIS" episodes featuring "NCIS: Los Angeles" stars Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J run Friday on USA.
Normally, episodes from the just-ended season's run of "NCIS" wouldn't be available so quickly -- but the Eye saw a marketing opportunity by advancing the segs to USA. The cabler was happy to help CBS market the spinoff in exchange for an early crack at the episodes.
Such a quid pro quo is in stark contrast to last month's brutal back-and-forth between the Peacock and the Eye over "Medium." After both sides failed to come to a deal for the show -- NBC wanted fewer episodes than what CBS TV Studios was looking to produce -- the Peacock wound up canceling the show.
In dropping "Medium," NBC execs dismissed the show's performance -- leading CBS TV Studios to send out an unusual press release condemning the Peacock for dumping the series.
But ultimately, a conglom feud of this sort can go only so far. With the congloms in business with each other on many different fronts, it's no surprise that, a month later, two different divisions of NBC Universal and CBS Corp. are playing nice.
NCIS Marathon -- Becki, 12:52:41 06/10/09 Wed [3]
If you all haven't heard yet. USA is host a NCIS marathon on a fave Goth girl. Hope you all will watch. I know I will be watching it. Have a great day everyone.
Big time OMG! Was watching the CBS Sunday morning program and they were doing a piece on Elton John. At one point they showed a photo of his dad.............Michael Wetherly (Tony) is his doppleganger...his spitting image! -- LadyC, 07:14:07 06/07/09 Sun [5]
NCIS -- Isaura Velez, 18:46:08 05/20/09 Wed [6]
First CBS took JAG off the air and replaced with NCIS which happens to be a great show. Now if they take "Gibbs" I am not watching the show anymore. I am a retiree from the Federal Gov and worked all my career with military people - so that is why I loved those two shows.
New to the Forum -- Jennifer, 10:07:22 06/01/09 Mon [5]
Hi all! I've been an NCIS fan since the very first season! People tell me I'm overly obsessed and I guess I see where they are coming from. I get all into the episodes, can't miss one, don't talk to me when I'm watching one, I cry & laugh... its like they are family since I've been watching it so long. Anyway I came across this forum and thought I'd introduce myself & try to make some friends! You can email me at j_scott8707@yahoo.com if you'd like to chat or just reply on here. Thanks!
New to the this page -- Becki, 06:27:33 05/28/09 Thu [5]
I just found this page. I have been a fan of NCIS from the beginning. Can't believe I didn't find this page sooner. Just wanted to say hi, and I hope to be a regular on this board.
Last Night's ep -- KatRose, 10:56:38 05/13/09 Wed [2]
What did you think of the Tony-Ziva-Michael interaction? Do you think the ICE agent is/was involved in the eavesdropping at SecNav's house? What do you think will happen to Tony as a result of the shooting?
I'm eagerly awaiting the season finale to see how this all is (partially) wrapped up.
Buzz on NCIS from TV Guide -- LadyC, 17:58:05 04/22/09 Wed [3]
We've been teased big happenings with NCIS' Tony and Ziva, and I'm all for that, but need I be worrying so much? — Kate
MATT: I finally got NCIS boss Shane Brennan to dish on "Tiva," and it looks like you might be left to fret all summer long. He told me, "What happens over these next episodes is an evolution of their relationship — though perhaps more extreme than you would get in your normal [workplace]. These people do carry guns!" Then, in the wake of specific events of the May 19 season-ender, he said, "It's up to the audience to decide, and they will over the summer, what might happen [next]. But everything has a life, and eventually things end." Listen very carefully to Brennan's coda here: "Now, if you think I just said that Tiva's going to end, I didn't."
I've heard that Heroes' Volume 4 ends with a major death. Any tease? — Eric
is this show being cancelled -- kathie, 05:54:16 04/21/09 Tue [2]
is the show being cancelled? i did not hear that but i am reading some things about a spin off? is this true
I thought this weeks eppy was good! I really like the ending where Abby made Palmer, McGee and Tony clean up her lab. And the "Abby's lab for dummies book" was funny! They probably should have read it before they started doing anything! LOL!!!! -- gOthgiRL†, 15:33:57 04/10/09 Fri [1]
A Holiday Round Robin...continue the poem using our favorite characters and stuff from their lives -- LadyC , 18:49:54 12/14/08 Sun [5]
Twas the night before Christmas,
when down in the garage,
Jetho was working on a boat
that was not very large
Sort of off topic--has anybody noticed how much Catherine Bell (Col. McKenzie on Jag) has been showing up on TV lately? In the past week or week and a half I have seen her in at least 3 different programs/movies. -- Lady C, 17:47:55 02/07/09 Sat [2]
Hey Kat, I sent you an email a few days ago and just remembered you have really strong spam blockers......did you receive it? Was a scan of a newspaper article about DPB -- Lady C, 18:50:30 03/11/09 Wed [3]
What's your favorite episode? More than one? One of my fav's is Call of Silence..an 80+ yr old comes into NCIS headquarters and says he murdered someone...60 years ago. Charles Durning plays Ernie Yost. Mr Durning has an incredible record himself for his service in WWII, and maybe he brought some of hs memories of that time to the role. I just know that every time this ep plays I sit through the whole thing -- LadyC, 20:16:47 02/16/09 Mon [4]
In one of the first episodes that McGee was in, he spent the night at Abby's... When he found out he slept in a coffen, Abby stated, "That is not the only thing you did in a coffen." I just caught this line, so suspicion goes on about those two, Did they do something or not. -- Alan, 00:08:40 02/25/09 Wed [2]
NCIS Spinoff -- KatRose, 10:25:34 02/17/09 Tue [2]
I read this in today's Hollywood Reporter:
Three leads cast in 'NCIS' spinoff
Louise Lombard, Peter Cambor, Daniela Ruah join
By Nellie Andreeva
The team of naval investigators on the "NCIS" spinoff is coming into focus.
Louise Lombard, Peter Cambor and Daniela Ruah have been cast as leads in the hot CBS/CBS Par pilot, which will air as an episode of "NCIS" in the spring, just as the pilot for "NCIS" aired as an episode of "JAG."
The three would join Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J, who are still in negotiations for the other two leads in the spinoff.
Lombard will play Clara, a role perceived as the female lead on the ensemble drama. A former major in the military police, Clara is an intelligent, sharp investigator who can look after herself.
Cambor ("Notes From the Underbelly") will play the quick-witted Nate, the team's conscience and beating heart. Nate is an operational psychologist and a walking encyclopedia of American culture.
Ruah will play Kensi, a super bright young investigator who studied forensics and criminology in college.
Brit Lombard is joining the "NCIS" franchise after a stint on another hit CBS crime procedural, "CSI," where she played Detective Sofia Curtis for three years.
She also played the title lead in the ABC pilor "Judy Got a Gun."
Lombard is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment and U.K.'s United Agents.
Mark Harmon on NCIS -- Stephen D. Wilson, 17:02:32 02/22/09 Sun [1]
Does Mark Harmon receive extra money for showing a Starbuck coffee cup? Dose he really drink Starbuck Coffee?
From the TV Guide newsletter I get---Any scoop on NCIS' Tony DiNozzo? Out of all the characters, I think we have the least back story on him! — Akhila -- LadyC, 16:30:54 01/28/09 Wed [3]
MATT: That tide is about to change, Akhila. "Tony fans are in for an exciting season finale — poignant, sad and shocking!" exec producer Shane Brennan tells the Buzz. "But before then, in an episode called 'Knockout,' we'll learn more intriguing details about Tony's recent past." It's like Christmas-come-late, am I right?
Pretty good ep last night. Abby sounded so much like Jenny when she was talking to Palmer at the hospital. and the bit with McGee and all his old computers......reminded me of how many different ones I have had over the years...> -- Lady C, 18:10:00 01/14/09 Wed [1]
New Year's Resolutions... What resolutions would the team members make and how likely would they be to follow thru? -- Lady C, 16:03:01 01/04/09 Sun [3]
From the TV Guide Site: Is Ziva's father going to make a return on NCIS this season? — Morgan -- LadyC, 19:43:26 12/03/08 Wed [2]
Matt: My moles at the CBS hit may be tight-lipped about the Ziva-Tony romance (a very popular topic in the Buzz box), but on this matter they did let slip some intel: Eli David, played by Michael "What a Feeling" Nouri, will be seen again, and possibly before the end of this season.
From the Los Angeles Times -- KatRose, 21:20:46 11/30/08 Sun [2]
From the Los Angeles Times
THE MONITOR
'NCIS' has something for everybody
The long-running CBS hit's formula is simple: Assemble a crack acting team, pair them with compelling and varied characters, and then keep the story lines smart and snappy.
By Darby Romeo
November 30, 2008
While seemingly lost in the murk of acronym-titled, murder-of-the-week television series, "NCIS" is more than a formulaic crime drama featuring a team of experts investigating yet another dead body.
Though the title lends itself to unwarranted confusion as a "CSI" clone, anyone who's watched the CBS show knows that's just not the case -- the "Naval Criminal Investigative Service" deals with all major criminal offenses associated with U.S. Navy and Marines, not solely deaths where body parts and other remains are left to be scraped up and examined by sexy lab workers. And while the "NCIS" actors are not unsexy by any means, their standout features are more in the realm of sassy, high-IQ geek.
The actors have much to do with making it all come together and keep it from wallowing as B-grade fair. First and foremost, there's Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto. Perrette doesn't just look the part (peppy-Goth soda addict with an eclectic style and technical forensic talents), she embodies the persona.
"I have a lifelong crime obsession," Pauley admitted on "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson." A sociology, psychology and criminal science major, she'd started work on her master's degree before being sidetracked by an acting career that made her the forensic specialist she apparently had been destined to become.
Her unconditional love for her team members is the glue that holds them together. In real life, the love goes global via her grrl groupies, who fill the forums with questions about where they can find -- among other things -- the pants, miniskirt or shirt the former lead singer of the L.A.-based, all-girl punk band Lo-Ball wore in the last episode.
Abby has a close relationship with her father-figure boss, the sternly private Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (the older-than-he-looks Mark Harmon). He is the cranky, guarded central character around whom his team of younger, more whimsical counterparts revolve. (Though regressively aging actress Lauren Holly, as his superior, played an equally serious, almost stodgy role -- that is until she was abruptly gunned down last season. Like "The Sopranos," the show's writers aren't afraid to unexpectedly kill off some of its leads without any foreshadowing.)
In bantering about the origins of Gibbs, Michael Weatherly's character, Tony DiNozzo, speculates that he was "sent to be the left hand of Yahweh; he was grown in a cabbage patch." In one of the slowest reveals on TV, the audience gets only sporadic glimpses of Gibbs' biography and why he's such a lovable grouch.
The not-bad-to-look-at Weatherly adds comic relief with his flirting with women, the recitation of movie minu- tia and getting smacked by Gibbs for sophomoric commentary.
DiNozzo has made statements like, "I've got a better chance of hooking up with Jessica Alba than these guys do of infiltrating SeaLift" -- a crack made even more humorous if you know that Weatherly's previous role was as the "Dark Angel" costar of his onetime real-life fiancée Alba.
Anime geeks claim Ziva David as their ultimate Israeli warrior princess. Played by Chilean-born actress Cote de Pablo, she was introduced in the third season as an elite assassin joining the squad under somewhat suspicious circumstances. Ziva is the cliché potential unrequited love interest for DiNozzo. Her gag: an idiosyncratic slaughter of American sayings -- "Mind if I take a bat nap?" -- otherwise referred to as Ziva-isms.
Devotees consider her fearlessness as appealing as her exotic looks. Usually dressed down in combat boots, cargo pants and sweaters, Cote earned many drool-laden points in this season's premiere wearing a dangerously low- backed dress while singing (yes, in her own voice) a rendition of Diana Krall's take on Tom Waits' "Temptation" -- now what's not hip about that?
As Stephen King once wrote: "There can be a big difference between what you think is great and what you actually like."
"NCIS" won't blow your mind, but when you want to chill out in your big recliner and take a load off, the show is a worthy prime-time choice.
Looks like Gibbs was in his own fight club! Wonder what happened?? A run in with an ex-wife? A planer gone mad at home? Boy, those other guys took a really beating by way of the makeup folks-nice job, icky, but nice job. -- Frances, 03:05:48 12/03/08 Wed [2]
Does Ziva have a child???? Her reactions seems interesting, and she could have left a child at home, or sadly, the child might have died. What with that whole "we all have secrets" discussion with DiNozzo. HMMMM.... What do you alll think? -- Frances, 03:04:06 11/26/08 Wed [2]
I thought tonight's Eppy was really good. I knew Abby was in on it and it was funny to see McGee and DiNozzo both run into her lab door and hit their noses! LOL!! I was actually surprised that Ducky was in on it, I thought Gibbs was trying to keep from involving Ducky altogether.
I still don't know what to think about Agent Lee and I'm still suspicious of Palmer........there is just something weird there.......but maybe that's just me thinking too much.
I wasn't shocked about Agent Lee having a daughter. I read somewhere that someone had gone on a tour to NCIS and met the girl who plays Agent Lee's daughter so.......no big shocker there.
Ooooh and what's up with the " I'm done pretending" between Ziva and Tony?? and then the writers just left us hangin'! Waiting for the Next episode! -- gOthgiRL†, 00:29:46 11/19/08 Wed [2]
From the TV Guide newsletter: Is Pauley Perrette (Abby) leaving NCIS? Please say it ain't so. — Brian -- TV Junkie Mom, 18:43:44 11/19/08 Wed [1]
MATT: Oh, it very much ain't so. In fact, my best NCIS mole dismissed your question as both "strange" and "out of left field." But to thank you nonetheless for playing, I offer this: Watch for General Hospital to collide with Dynasty in the red-hot show's Dec. 2 episode, when Antonio Sabato Jr. and Tracy Scoggins play husband/lawyer and wife/client.
Does anyone have any theories as to who Agent Lee is working with?
For some reason I really think she is working with Palmer! I think he is the perfect person to overlook! To be right under their noses even when Ducky is profiling people on a regular basis and everything......it would be a crazy perfect twist! Just my theory.... What's yours? -- gOthgiRL†, 02:36:42 11/15/08 Sat [5]
How does CBS spell success? 'NCIS'
The long-running series has one of television's most loyal audiences, but it's had to survive a few crises along the way.
By Scott Collins
November 17, 2008
By spring 2007, the CBS drama “NCIS” looked to have run out of luck.
The show, about a team of special agents who investigate Navy crimes, had become a stalwart of the CBS lineup, even though it never attracted the media buzz enjoyed by many far less popular shows. But a poisonous rift with star Mark Harmon led to the sudden and unceremonious departure of co-creator Don Bellisario, who happens to be one of the most successful producers in TV history (his credits include "Magnum, P.I." and "Quantum Leap"). For a series that was then winding up its fourth season, such a development seemed destined to hasten a creative and ratings decline.
Miraculously, that didn't happen. "NCIS" has come back stronger and on Tuesday reached its largest audience ever, with 18.8 million total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. This season, only " CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Dancing With the Stars" have bigger audiences.
Although most hits begin to fade by their sixth season, "NCIS" is seeing new growth -- and doing so amid a very tough market for network series in general. "We've had changes in front of the camera, behind the camera," Harmon told me in a phone interview last week. "And if you look at the result, I think in all cases we've gotten better."
If the producers could figure out a way to bottle their secrets and hawk them on studio lots, they could probably retire now and maybe fund their kids' retirements too. But "NCIS" is one of those go-figure success stories. All sorts of theories -- we'll get to them in a minute -- profess to explain why the show has kept growing.
Yet what seems maybe more intriguing are the counter-arguments, all the reasons "NCIS" shouldn't work as well it does.
Which are: The media try very hard to ignore the show. Producers realize it doesn't perform as well in New York and Los Angeles as it does in smaller markets, perhaps because the series started as a spinoff of "JAG," a popular CBS military crime drama (and Bellisario creation) that some critics found jingoistic. Harmon and the producers insist "NCIS" isn't just a procedural, but the crime-solving element is still at the heart of every episode, and network TV is drowning in crime shows. "NCIS" has seen a parade of cast changes, moreover, including abrupt exits by costars Sasha Alexander (whose character was felled by a sniper's bullet at the end of Season 2) and Lauren Holly (dispatched in a gun battle in the fifth-season finale).
And then there's the competition. Between January and May, "NCIS" airs opposite Fox's " American Idol," the No. 1 show on television. That type of scheduling could give any drama a ready excuse for failure.
But looked at more closely, "NCIS' " rise becomes easier to understand. For one thing, the series has bucked TV's trend toward serialized storytelling, which, though popular with hard-core fans and many critics, requires more dedication from viewers and has almost certainly tamped down ratings for many shows.
"NCIS" "probably has not lost many of its core viewers over time," Steve Sternberg, an executive vice president at New York-based ad firm Magna, wrote in an e-mail. "There is a small central cast and close-ended story lines. This makes it easier for new viewers to tune in and figure out what's going on."
Also, the producers have spent more time the last two seasons filling in gaps in the characters' personal lives. One episode last month showed Harmon's special agent, Leroy Gibbs, traveling back to his hometown to meet his aging father (Ralph Waite).
"Early on, it was kind of a show that moved very fast and had quick editing and a sort of staccato pace," said executive producer Charles Johnson. "I think in the last year or two, we've slowed it down and went, 'OK, we still like to break barriers in how we edit the show and all. But we also want to try and get you to know these people a little better.' "
Added executive producer Shane Brennan: "I don't think it's a bad thing, particularly in Season 6 of a show, to reinvent the characters a little."
But certainly another key to the endurance of "NCIS" lies in what happened at the end of Season 4, when news of a feud between Harmon and Bellisario began leaking into the media. Stories said Harmon felt Bellisario's management style was chaotic and led to overly long production days.
That is not quite how Bellisario saw it. Reached at his office on the CBS lot, the veteran producer said that during fourth-season production, "I asked Mark to re-shoot a scene. He redid it exactly the same way he did it the first time and never spoke to me again." He blamed Harmon and his handlers for a "full-blown PR campaign" of anonymous leaks about allegedly bad on-set working conditions.
According to Bellisario, CBS soon told him it wanted him to quit "NCIS" and work on developing something else. To date, he hasn't developed another show, he said.
He now speaks of "NCIS" with an odd mixture of pride, regret and anger. "I do wish it hadn't ended the way it did," Bellisario said. His name remains on "NCIS" as co-creator and executive producer, but he has zero day-to-day involvement with the show.
Harmon sees that as a change for the better. "If we're working 14-hour days now instead of the 17- or 18-hour days that we were doing, it doesn't mean we're working any less hard," the actor said. "We're just more organized. . . . This has become a very well-oiled machine."
He added: "I don't wish to go head to head with Bellisario in the press. . . . He knows why he left."
Feuds between producers and talent are nothing new, of course, but how they are resolved can ultimately spell the difference between success and failure. In the case of "NCIS," CBS not only sided with its star, it also chose a course that promised the most stability for a show that had turned into an important asset. Brennan and Johnson had both spent years working alongside Bellisario. With the new pair taking over, the series could keep its star and not miss a beat. Unfortunately, Bellisario became collateral damage. But CBS understood that its audience -- the oldest in TV -- was not eager to see more drastic creative upheavals. And given how "NCIS" has thrived since that time, it's clear that, in terms of pure survival, network executives' instincts were correct, even if justice was not necessarily meted out.
Now the producers see very few limits on the show's longevity and are pushing for a run that would give it a permanent place in network history.
As Brennan put it, even in these days of fragmented audiences and lowered expectations, "there's no reason why a show can't run for 10 or 15 years."
The Channel Island column runs every Monday in Calendar. Contact Scott Collins at scott.collins @latimes.com
NCIS vs JAG -- Alan, 22:11:30 11/11/08 Tue [4]
The only thing that NCIS and JAG really have in common is they both take place around the Navy and the Marine Corps and it seems to stop there. The fact that Donald Bellisario is the creator and excutive producer for both shows (even though they have differnt writers)seems to be showing really badly in the way both shows are being played out.
JAG everyone except Admiral A. J. Chegwidden (best to my memory) had been put on trial or investigated for some kind of crime.
Lets fast forward it to NCIS at this point the story line has run its course yet again, Tony for murder, McGee when he shot the off duty police officer (normal evryday line of work to be investigated in any shooting)and he keep information form Gibbs about his sister (this could land you out off a job and criminal charges brought against you), Ziva when the dignitaries were killed, Shepard when Frog was killed, and know Abby in next weeks show for possible treason.
I love both shows and I will watch both shows, but JAG is gone lets start writting a show that belongs to NCIS. I know this is Hollywood, but I am involved in local Law Enforcement, I know people who work for the FBI and NCIS. Small investigations take place everyday and citizan complaints come in everyday that are, "Looked into," but the crimes that the people have been put through in both shows would land you out of job and the team being broke up before you knew what happened.
I guess what I am asking is lets keep JAG JAG and keep NCIS NCIS. The Hollywood can stay though.
NEW EPISODE TUESDAY 11-11-08 ! "Collateral Damage" The team probes a bank robbery that ends with a murder, and Gibbs doubts his own judgment when a rookie is assigned to help in the investigation. -- gOthgiRL†, 00:00:30 11/10/08 Mon [1]
whats that song from ncis from today? -- luke, 21:10:09 10/28/08 Tue [5]
what was that song from ncis today i can't rember it goes lalala who lalala he lalala he who ha?
Could it possibly be the number one sicko that made Harmon Rabb's life miserable??? The creepy Agent Clark Palmer???? -- LadyC, 17:18:28 10/28/08 Tue [1]
The clues in tonights show........That clock picture is similar to one in a painting by Salvatore Dali...anybody know anyting about the other things? -- LadyC, 17:15:08 10/28/08 Tue [1]
Last night's episode Abby's whole obsession with Mold spores was crazy.....she needs to get out of the lab more often! LOL! The only question I think i have for this episode is: Who is the guy in the picture that Dinozzo found on Ziva's desk????? does she have another brother? or was it a boyfriend? or something? -- gOthgiRL†, 17:58:24 10/22/08 Wed [2]
Birthday today.............La Grenouille actor Armand Assante turns 59 today..........Trivia: Many years ago he played the father of Sophia Loren in a tv movie about her life -- TV Junkie Mom, 07:48:23 10/04/08 Sat [1]
Is Franks dirty? -- Diana, 00:01:06 09/18/08 Thu [5]
Okay, people, I raised this question before but no one responded. Does anyone else have a strange feeling about Mike Franks? I think the man had something to do with offing Gibbs' family. Do you?
What is up with the rumor. -- David, 18:01:46 09/29/08 Mon [3]
I logged onto MySpace tonight and in the ads it say vote to keep NCIS on the Air. Is there talk of them canceling it now? I tried to cross reference it but all I can find is they are talking about Criminal MInds being canceled.
So what did everyone think of 2night's Season Premiere??
I totally knew it was Agent Lee from the second the Director suspected people and told Gibbs! So who is her accomplice? Palmer maybe? or Ziva's Dad?? or some1 else?? Not sure where this story line is headed! I'm glad the team is back 2gether.........can't wait for DiNozzo to come back! I loved his whole "Yeah Pa.Tim can't drive my car BS" Funny! but who was he trying to keep from hearing all the info? It's not like they could hear through the headphones.......or was someone deliberately spying on DiNozzo? NE-ways Questions, questions and more questions......so that's a good Season opener in my opinion!! My only complaint is that it was too short of an eppy. It seemed rushed...........it needed to be a 2-parter episode in my opinion! Can't wait for next week!!!!!!!!!!!! -- gOthgiRL†, 23:46:25 09/23/08 Tue [6]
Can somebody post a summary of the last episode or do u know when the last episode is gonna air again?? I want to refresh my memory on it so i'm ready for the new season. -- gOthgiRL†, 22:34:41 08/25/08 Mon [6]
Any time GG (NT) -- Lady C Thanks for the countdown clock, 19:26:25 08/26/08 Tue
For All the Jenny Shepard Fans. This vid fits so good with the Season Finale! I didn't make it. creds go to Melanie. -- gOthgiRL†, 01:03:32 05/23/08 Fri [5]
News from the Strike Recovery Chart by Ausiello at TV Guide.com NCIS Expected to shoot 7 new episodes to begin airing on April 8. -- Lady C , 15:44:20 02/13/08 Wed [4]
I know this might sound a little "weird" but.. You probably have seen the tv ads for Progressive Insurance that make it look like a store and there is a gal at the "register" . For some reason the gal in them makes me think of Abby. They don't look alike, and the two characters behave much differently from each other but wouldn't it be interesting if she were on an ep of NCIS as Abby's sister or cousin or something? -- TV Junkie Mom, 20:04:00 07/19/08 Sat [1]
Harmon named #5 sexiest tv doctor on TV Guide Channel. TV Guide Channel has another of it's "list" programs running and this one is about the sexiest TV Doctors...of course Clooney and McDreamy came in #1 & #2 but out of the other 18 named Mark Harmon ranked #5 for his portrayal of Dr Bobby Caldwell on St Elswhere. -- Lady C............and he still is the sexiest!, 20:22:22 06/30/08 Mon [1]
From TV Guide.com Regarding NCIS, -- Lady C, 18:25:23 06/25/08 Wed [4]
can you find out whether Director Shepard's father is alive or dead? Were the fingerprints found in her study just a red herring? — dorlancaster
Mitovich: Jenny's father, like Jenny herself, is most definitely dead, an NCIS rep assures me. The fingerprints and the claim by the Russian General that her dad was still alive were part of a ploy organized by Kort (who was investigating La Grenouille for the CIA) to discredit Jenny and have her booted from NCIS, thus ending her investigation into "The Frog
Was he serious or just covering? -- LadyC, 17:34:14 06/10/08 Tue [3]
On tonights ep Tony asked Jeanne if she ever saw a movie called Strangers In the Night with Cary Grant.. If he was "covering" then I can understand it, but if he was serious then he was dead wrong. Strangers In The Night is a song (sung by Sinatra) from a James Garner movie called A Man Could Get Killed (c.1966) a very funny movie at that. There were 2 other movies with the name Strangers In The Night but one was made long after Mr. Grants death and it was a zombie flik. The other was made in 1944 and was a definate B-Movie about a woman who writes letters to soldiers during WWII.
Did anyone watch tonights eppy " Drive" ? It was from 2006. For some reason I never saw it when it first aired. I thought it was a really good eppy! I loved the whole sexual harrassment stuff. They ALL crossed that "Red Light" line waaaaaaaaayyyyy before the training class!! LOL!! ( Does Head smacking count as Harrassment? Tony says. " Has that ever happened here?" instructor lady says. " Uh...." he looks at Gibbs', " Uh....N-No never!" ) LOL!!!! -- gOthgiRL†, 23:54:39 06/03/08 Tue [1]
Found this on Ask Ausiello on TVGuide.com -- Lady C, 15:28:01 05/28/08 Wed [4]
Question: You would have to take the week off when NCIS drops three big bombs on all of us. What gives? — Tygerbam
Ausiello: What gives is… I'm about to more than make it up to you with the following exclusive mini-Q&A with exec producer Shane Brennan featuring your burning questions about the season finale! Woo-hoo!
• Are they really writing out McGee, DiNozzo and Ziva à la House, or will they all be back next season?! Patrick
Brennan: No fan of NCIS will be disappointed when the show returns in September. I promise, we're not doing a House! But strap into your seats, it's going to be a heart stopping ride....
• Please, please, please tell me that they’re not really breaking up the team on NCIS! Lu Ann
Brennan: Deep breaths. Everything is going to be fine. This is Gibbs' team, right?
• Will the show be introducing any new team members next season? Chris
From the Los Angeles Times
THE SUNDAY CONVERSATION
Mark Harmon of 'NCIS' isn't complaining
The actor is just glad he has a job to come back to after Season 5 ends Tuesday.
By Choire Sicha
Special to The Times
May 18, 2008
MARK HARMON stars on CBS' "NCIS" -- the two-hour Season 5 finale airs on Tuesday night. He has appeared on "The West Wing," "Chicago Hope," "Moonlighting," "St. Elsewhere" -- and "The Love Boat." He and his spouse, Pam Dawber, have two sons.
I'm shocked by the network's order for 27 episodes for next year.
This schedule, we've been working six-day weeks since the Second of March. We've done that before here. This group is somewhat used to it. And in some ways, the crew is able to make up some of that lost revenue from the strike, which is good . . . 260 people on a crew who know now they have a job to come back to in June. So that part's important! When you get right down to it for so many here, this is about a job.
You yourself have had a lot of jobs.
Well, you too probably, huh.
I'm getting there.
That's what actors do. Different jobs, you know. If you're lucky.
So are things running more smoothly there, after what everyone was calling a "showdown" -- very dramatically! -- between you and creator Donald Bellisario?
I never called it that. I think [executive producers] Charles Johnson and Shane Brennan both have done a great job in transition here. Show creators, they move on; they do other things. This show is doing so well, in its fifth year. Better in its fifth than fourth, better fourth than third. This is a big group of very, very talented people who are all doing their job. . . . It's not really important here who's No. 1 on the call sheet. We all do this together. That's the way it works. You couldn't work here if you didn't want to be here. That's held true for everyone. This is a show that'll show actors through the door and has and will again. And the same for crew members. The result is you have a place you like to work.
You sound like you should be running a set yourself.
No, I'm a team guy. I know what being a team guy is, you know.
In 2014 are we going to see you pull a third act -- a Clint Eastwood? When a man's kids go off to school, he thinks about new things.
Oh, I don't know. You've got to get there first. I have no idea. I will be part of this as long as it's -- I don't have any plans to ride this into the ground, so to speak, into its last breath, so to speak. You're part of this as long as the work is good.
You've been playing cops and soldiers and presidents and womanizing doctors for so long. Don't you ever just want to put on a dress for a part?
I haven't yet! I guess if this was 25 years ago we'd be talking about westerns. It runs in genres. I like the challenge of playing different roles, and I've tried to spread that around some.
Do you have any delicious Angie Dickinson stories from the set of "Police Woman"?
I just remember her being really nice. I just recall her being professional and kind when she had no reason to be -- the first one to come up to you in the makeup trailer and introduce herself. The things she didn't have to do.
From the outside, we hear about TV sets as places of trauma and horror.
Well, it might not be different from where you work! Some I guess are. But others aren't.
Many refer to the curse of being People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. Well, that was back in 1986. Have you been cursed ever since?
I think it made me laugh more than anything. And maybe in 1986 it had a different touch than what it has now. Now it happens every year. Then it was humorous to me. Still kind of is.
It's pretty weird, right?
Well, it's surprising to me when some people take it a little more seriously than I think they should.
Do you have any tips for people in exhausting crazy work situations?
I think we're all pretty lucky to have a job. I ask a lot of the actors who're coming on as guests -- I ask them how it is out there. A high 90% are saying this is their first job since the strike.
It sounds like tough times for actors.
Look, you've got a job too. There's a lot of people who'd like your job.
Comparing one's life to others is a national pastime.
Yeah. Well, look, this job's no different from yours in so many ways -- you turn on the TV on Tuesday nights and maybe that's a little different. It's a job you try to do well. You try to keep the edge on it. . . . It doesn't make much sense to me that it's busy and we're working hard -- you won't catch me complaining. I spent too many months and years not having a job.
Oh, I hear that.
In this business, like your business, it ebbs and it flows. You'll have it in both directions -- cooler, warmer, all that. I don't get too worked up. The idea is to be around for a while.
You've either got a good meditation practice or years under your belt.
I don't know. It's perspective. I think.
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FOR THE RECORD:
"NCIS": The Sunday Conversation interview with Mark Harmon in today's Calendar section says that "NCIS" plans 27 episodes for next season. There will be 26. —
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Just saw the ad for next weeks ep and realized the Temp Director said CASUALTY not FATALITY............there is a difference......... -- LadyC, 19:06:21 05/16/08 Fri [1]
Who is leaving the show My thoughts inside -- David, 10:49:05 05/15/08 Thu [3]
I have nothing to do at work since high gas prices are effecting my job. I was sitting in my car and searching to see who is leaving the show.
I dont rember which site it was, but it says, "A NCIS Agent is found by a boy, Tony and Ziva escort Jen to the funeral. So that leaves Gibbs and McGhee.
I also crossed reference Sean Murry's name and in the discription listed on the page in the caption it says, "Sean Murrey is leaving NCIS."
Abby was listed in another site stating she will still be on the show.
Sorry for spelling, but if I have to guess it is going to be McGhee that leaves the show and he is going to be killed. I believe this, due to the fact he is starting a theater somewhere and apparently it is open for business already.
Sorry I can not provide references, but it should not be hard to find if you search Sean Murrey's name, Is Sean Murrey leaving NCIS.
How her name is pronounced. -- LadyC, 17:33:35 05/07/08 Wed [1]
A while back I asked about how Cote's name was pronunced, well the other night on Entertainment Tonight they were talking about last nights ep and Mary Hart ( I think it was her) pronounced it as if it rhymed with Cody.
Well, I'll take Jethro, is McGee doesn't want him! -- Frances, 03:25:39 04/17/08 Thu [2]
Loved Abby(most of the time), she was strong and proactive, instead of stay-in-the-office. Love her wheels...so fun. I like that they all disagreed, but honored Abby's opinion(like she gave them a choice, LOL). And they all worked the case from different places, and that Gibbs is treating McGee, like he treats DiNozzo & Ziva.
HAPPY B'DAY Becki 
(NT) -- LadyC, 19:35:40 06/21/09 Sun
(NT) -- gOthgiRL†, 16:23:48 06/19/09 Fri
NCIS facts -- Katy, 13:43:06 06/11/09 Thu [9] 
(NT) -- gOthgiRL†, 17:36:23 06/11/09 Thu
(NT) -- gOthgiRL†, 16:42:38 06/13/09 Sat
NCIS Marathon -- Becki, 12:52:41 06/10/09 Wed [3] 
Big time OMG! 
Was watching the CBS Sunday morning program and they were doing a piece on Elton John. At one point they showed a photo of his dad.............Michael Wetherly (Tony) is his doppleganger...his spitting image! -- LadyC, 07:14:07 06/07/09 Sun [5] 
New to the Forum -- Jennifer, 10:07:22 06/01/09 Mon [5] 
is this show being cancelled -- kathie, 05:54:16 04/21/09 Tue [2] 
, 18:49:54 12/14/08 Sun [5] 
> -- Lady C, 18:10:00 01/14/09 Wed [1] 
-- gOthgiRL†
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For Ducky--Scottish Shortbread flavored. Blue icing with a big white X on the top. (The Scottish Flag) and spiked with "a wee dram of Glenfiddich" (NT) -- LadyC, 19:48:06 10/09/08 Thu
So what did everyone think of 2night's Season Premiere??
Tuesday we get a double dose of Big Brother. Part II of the finale is on the 16th. Set your tivo or vcr. (NT) -- Lady C 
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, 15:44:20 02/13/08 Wed [4] 
Was Jeanne supposed to know a lot about old movies?? CUZ maybe he was testing her to see how much she was pretending to know! OR maybe the show people made the movie title up for the heck of it cuz they were too lazy to find a real movie that fit in with the episode! who knows, but i have found a lot of inconsistencies with the shows details. They must have a lot of different writers that don't know the show very good. The whole deal with Ziva's past is really messed up but anyway i'm ramblin on! : ) (NT) -- gOthgiRL†, 15:50:16 06/12/08 Thu
ncis -- pissedoffgurl, 07:12:54 06/01/08 Sun
Your Forwarned LOL!! I'm not surprised they got rid of Director Shepard the way they did, I just thought they would draw out her dying longer than this! THEN THE END!! WHAT THE FRACK?! Sending Everyone AWAY??WHAT NOW?? Are they gonna show Ziva in Israel and Tony on the Uss Reagan and McGee in Cyberhack, USA.....?? AAAHH!!
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.. -- LadyC, 19:06:21 05/16/08 Fri [1] 
Who is leaving the show My thoughts inside -- David, 10:49:05 05/15/08 Thu [3]