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Post by llyan on Aug 17, 2021 16:06:38 GMT
‘NCIS’ Season 19: What’s Next for Gibbs, Plus How Gary Cole’s FBI Agent Fits In
Kate Hahn3 HOURS AGO  'NCIS' Star Mark HarmonFALL PREVIEW
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Season 19 = payback time. Indefinitely suspended NCIS boss Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) goes after the serial killer who tried to eliminate him in an explosion that turned his boat, Rule 91, into toothpicks.
“It’s not clear what state he’s in,” NCIS exec producer Steven D. Binder says. But “when you blow up a man’s boat that he’s handcrafted in his basement for the past half decade, you’ve opened up a serious can of whoop-ass.”
Gibbs’ righteous anger could be his worst enemy. We know he avenged the deaths of his wife and daughter, and his enraged assault on a perp got him suspended. His actions now could scuttle his career.
“Even if he were to go back to his former life at NCIS, his deeper issues don’t just go away,” Binder says. “And if he officially moves on, what happens to a guy like Gibbs without the job? We know his heart is pure, but Gibbs has been a troubled soul for a long time.”
Vanessa Lachey also teases 'romantic entanglements' among the team and how Jane is 'making it work in a man's world.'
The team carries on with FBI Special Agent Alden Parker (new series regular Gary Cole). He won’t take Gibbs’ place, but he’ll compel our attention. Teases Binder: “He’s going to cross lines that will make you both love and hate him.”
NCIS, Season 19 Premiere, Monday, September 20, 9/8c, CBS
www.tvinsider.com/1008147/ncis-season-19-gibbs-parker-preview/
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Post by llyan on Oct 30, 2021 0:03:28 GMT
The New ‘NCIS’ Boss Speaks! Gary Cole Teases Skeletons in Parker’s ClosetKate Hahn
TODAY, 10:00 AM
It’s official. Former FBI guy Alden Parker (Gary Cole) is the new NCIS special agent in charge, taking over for the legendary Gibbs (Mark Harmon), who capped off his indefinite suspension by retiring to Alaska. The momentousness can’t be overstated: Leroy Jethro Gibbs is one of television’s most popular characters, and Harmon had been the series’ lead since 2003 (he continues to be an exec producer offscreen).
On Monday on NCIS, Parker and his team investigate the death of a commander who heads the All-Navy Sports Program. We talked to Cole about having his name on the door.
Is there pressure stepping into a lead role on such a huge series?
Gary Cole: I’ve done a lot of dropping into shows, [usually] as a recurring character. [See: Suits, The Good Wife.] Part of my job description is to get comfortable, whatever that takes. I’m not trying to be [Gibbs]. The writers made that distinction.
How does Parker make this job his own?
Parker isn’t overly chatty, but he is more verbal. He’s not as old school; he tries to get his hands on new tech gadgets and impress everybody. He’s trying to fit in with the rest of the team. Although he may be reluctant to voice it, he admires that Gibbs breaks rules. Parker bends them. We’ll see if it gets to the point of breaking.
Gary Cole, Sean Murray, Katrina Law, Wilmer Valderrama in NCIS
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The long-term team members aren’t comfortable with Parker. How does that play?
Initially Torres [Wilmer Valderrama] is the most resistant. Why, I’m not sure. McGee [Sean Murray], whose nature is intelligent and open, is reluctant at first but rolls with it. Jimmy [Brian Dietzen] and Kasie [Diona Reasonover]—they’re in a different world because they’re scientific.
Any skeletons in Parker’s closet?
There’s a situation that did not go according to plan, and something tragic happened. He’s purposely kind of an enigma.
You were great (and got an Emmy nod) as number-crunching Kent Davison on Veep. Will we see your comic side?
The writers leaned into stuff I’ve done. I’m fairly sarcastic. [Parker’s] sense of humor is similar.
How are you not like Parker?
I hate technology. I’ve been dragged into the future. Don’t look for my Twitter. I’ve heard there’s somebody on Facebook saying they’re me. It isn’t. You heard it here!
NCIS, Mondays, 9/8c, CBS
www.tvinsider.com/1018032/ncis-season-19-gary-cole-parker-team-leader/
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Post by llyan on May 4, 2022 22:39:23 GMT
‘NCIS’ Boss Teases the Season 19 Finale: ‘Gibbs’ Energy Permeates the Story’
Kate Hahn
TODAY, 9:00 AM
The NCIS team draws close to protect one of their own, boss Alden Parker (Gary Cole), when he’s framed for murder in the Season 19 finale. This tricky perp is someone who benefits more from “Parker being disgraced rather than killed,” reveals NCIS executive producer Steven D. Binder.
Parker, of course, does not take this sitting down. “When he feels the system is being used against him, he’s going to do what he’s going to do. We push things pretty far,” Binder says. He gets help from his ex-wife and still close friend, Vivian Kolchak (Teri Polo, who returns next season), an FBI agent turned paranormal investigator for the Department of Defense. Could the quirky Parker’s many hobbies have driven them apart? His passion for bird-watching comes into play; another pastime is revealed in a visit to an expansive new location we’ll be seeing in future episodes.
The NCIS team draws close to protect one of their own, boss Alden Parker (Gary Cole), when he’s framed for murder in the Season 19 finale. This tricky perp is someone who benefits more from “Parker being disgraced rather than killed,” reveals NCIS executive producer Steven D. Binder.
Parker, of course, does not take this sitting down. “When he feels the system is being used against him, he’s going to do what he’s going to do. We push things pretty far,” Binder says. He gets help from his ex-wife and still close friend, Vivian Kolchak (Teri Polo, who returns next season), an FBI agent turned paranormal investigator for the Department of Defense. Could the quirky Parker’s many hobbies have driven them apart? His passion for bird-watching comes into play; another pastime is revealed in a visit to an expansive new location we’ll be seeing in future episodes.
That doesn’t distract Kasie from finding a key clue — literal bread crumbs left by a hungry criminal. Don’t these bad guys know who they’re dealing with?
NCIS, Season 19 Finale, Monday, May 23, 9/8c, CBSwww.tvinsider.com/1042345/ncis-season-19-finale-parker-framed-ducky-returns-preview/
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Post by verdun on May 5, 2022 22:51:49 GMT
That sounds like a bang-up, convoluted mess.
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Post by kaschu32 on May 6, 2022 0:24:39 GMT
oh pretty please let us have an explosion or two for Nas..... the make the episode so much more watchable and believable..... so much better than oh say rail road ties closing down the freeway as the basketball team wins game two......
Don't get me wrong I think I'd enjoy a bit more back story on Alden..... besides his nice hair..... but this summary sounds a bit..... like too much crammed into 46 minutes.....
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Post by nas on May 6, 2022 1:24:30 GMT
oh yesssss, please, please, please - a Kaboom!
I ❤️ them, I crave them, I await them with bated breath!! 
hey, kaschu, I was nowhere near the I-10 when those railroad ties went up in flames! 😂
I was right here at home doing a happy dance, and thanking the b’🏀 gods for that 2nd win!
oh, how I ❤️❤️❤️ my beautiful 6++ foot guys - and their “great braided hair”! 😄
glad to know that Parker and his ex are still friendly, and that she isn’t a be-atch al la Diane…
will record and definitely watch the episode after the games…
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Post by Hari Seldon on May 6, 2022 1:55:35 GMT
~ why do the writers think every woman over 60 is a “horn doggie-ette”?
oh, how I ❤️❤️❤️ my beautiful 6++ foot guys - and their “great braided hair”! 😄
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Post by nas on May 6, 2022 18:51:01 GMT
Posted by Hari Seldon16 hours ago
touché, Hari! 😂😂😂
but in my defense, I ❤️❤️❤️ them from afar - and I’m not going to the Arena and hittin’ on ‘em…
tho’ I must say, Maxine would do that if I didn’t stop her! 🤣
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Post by Hari Seldon on May 7, 2022 5:02:34 GMT
but in my defense, I ❤️❤️❤️ them from afar - and I’m not going to the Arena and hittin’ on ‘em…
tho’ I must say, Maxine would do that if I didn’t stop her! 🤣
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Post by nas on May 7, 2022 7:53:48 GMT
welllll, Hari, I’d look them square in the knees and say, “Your place or mine, big guy?” 😁
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Post by llyan on May 17, 2022 2:29:57 GMT
‘NCIS’: Brian Dietzen Promises the Finale Will Reveal ‘a Direction’ for Palmer & Knight
Meredith Jacobs7 SECONDS AGO [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 19, Episode 20 “All or Nothing.”]
Will fighting for their lives bring Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) and Special Agent Jessica Knight (Katrina Law) closer together, just as it seems a romance might not happen between them on NCIS? Well, chances are looking much better at the end of “All or Nothing” than they were at the beginning.
After that wedding date, things have been … stalled for the potential couple. Palmer even tries to ask Knight out for coffee in this episode, only for her to invite the others along. Then, while hiding in a cabin and digging a bullet out of him, she admits that she doesn’t want to risk their friendship. But after they survive being hunted in the woods, she asks him to get coffee.
Dietzen breaks down the episode and teases what’s coming up in the finale for Palmer and Knight.
This is not Jimmy’s season. The biotoxin, now this and getting shot…
Brian Dietzen: This guy’s walking around with a target on his back. I feel like Jimmy’s an avatar for all the people on the planet going through really tough times over the last couple of years.
There may be some happiness with Knight. Is he feeling optimistic about their future at the end of the episode?
I’d like to think so. You know the history of NCIS, it’s filled with some tragic love stories that have been really beautiful and iconic, whether it’s Tony [Michael Weatherly] and Ziva [Cote de Pablo] or Bishop [Emily Wickersham] and Torres [Wilmer Valderrama], even Sloane [Maria Bello] and Gibbs [Mark Harmon]. There’s been a lot of things where things have happened relationship-wise on this show. It’s nice to see something where there’s some happiness. Jimmy did obviously previously experience happiness with his wife, Breena [Michelle Pierce], who unfortunately passed away, and McGee [Sean Murray] obviously is very happy with Delilah [Margo Harshman], but onscreen flirtations and that sort of thing haven’t always yielded the best results on this show over the past two decades, so it’s nice to have a little bit of hope there.
What happened at the wedding? Is it just that they’re getting closer?
Yeah, I think that basically they had a great time together. We saw in that episode that I co-wrote that Jimmy did say to himself and to his daughter and to his friends he’s ready to move on. He put the ring up on the shelf. This was his first taste of, “Oh, wow, there’s life beyond what I had. There’s life beyond that grief.” He experienced a great time with someone he obviously likes and they had a wonderful time.
Talk about building that relationship because their friendship jumped out from Katrina’s character joining the show.
Yeah, she was brought on as a prospective new series regular once we knew Emily Wickersham was gonna be leaving the show. When they have someone [who] may join the show full-time, you see some really great scenes that they give them, as a way of our producers, the network, you name it, saying, does this character and this actor gel with this group that we’ve come to know and love for a couple decades? We got a great three-page scene down in autopsy while she was talking about the loss of her REACT team, and Jimmy was having a heart-to-heart with her and saying that he’s been in her shoes before having lost someone that he loved as well. Right from the jump, these characters really hit it off well and Katrina and I hit it off well behind the camera as well. I really enjoy working with her. She’s a wonderful and very talented actor. I think that seeing that Jimmy and Knight worked well together, just talking and on an emotional level, the writers decided to push towards that and the network seemed to really like it.
What’s coming up for them in the finale?
It won’t be another six or seven episodes before they address this thing again. Sometimes we have a lot of stories to tell, so you can’t quite get back to like, what happened at that wedding? Did they connect, or did they not? They definitely will be addressing their time together in this episode. … We’re not leaving the audience high and dry on where the heck is this thing going? We’re gonna be choosing a direction before the end of this episode.
Talk about filming Monday’s episode with Katrina. It’s not often we see you out of the office in this kind of situation.
Yeah, that’s true. It’s fun to have a little fish out of the water. It was a great time filming it. We had a wonderful director in Tawnia Mckiernan and our writing team was wonderful on it as well and very collaborative with both Katrina and I, so getting out there and spending a lot of time outside, it felt like we were shooting a little movie inside of an episode. There was plenty of stunts. We got our stunt team going and they taught us how to do just about everything out there. It was a great time. It was one of those ones where you go, I’m definitely not gonna forget that episode.
We also got Ducky in this episode and I loved seeing David [McCallum] back and that always great Palmer-Ducky dynamic. Will we see the two of them in the finale?
Yes. We don’t get to have Palmer and Ducky in tons of scenes together for the episode because they’re not working together so much anymore, but we do get to see them together in a scene that I think is just wonderful. It’s just always so great to have David come back and it’s wonderful to see how great that guy is at his job. I love working with him and it’s always a treat.
Speaking of the finale, Parker’s [Gary Cole] framed for murder, I assume by the Raven, given the episode title [“Birds of a Feather”]. What can you tease?
It’s definitely gonna be one where the whole team has to come together, and those obviously are our strongest episodes when no one’s left on the bench. Similarly to the penultimate episode that I’m talking about today, it’s all hands on deck once again and this time they have to stand up for a guy that is new to their team and figure out what they can do for this man who’s come in to lead them for this past year. It’s pretty great. Everyone has their moment in this finale.
How’s Jimmy feeling about the Raven being back, given what happened last time?
I would imagine he’s pretty pissed off. [Laughs] I know he is. That was a near death experience. That’s horrible. But to compound that with that was a near death experience and my daughter almost had to watch me die, I would imagine that not just for Jimmy, but also for the rest of his team, certainly Kasie [Diona Reasonover], this thing is gonna be much more personal for them because of what they were put through and how this NCIS team almost lost two members of its family.
You still have the team dealing with Gibbs leaving. I liked the way Jimmy and Gibbs’ relationship developed over the years.
Yeah, I thought that they did a wonderful job on that first episode after Gibbs left, [when] Jimmy invited Ducky down to spend some time with him to assist him on autopsies and about three quarters of the way through the episode, Jimmy just came out with and said, “I just want you to stay down here. I don’t want things changing anymore that they have. Between Bishop and Gibbs and my wife, too many things have changed. Can you please just stay?” And Ducky, of course, imparts pearls of wisdom of saying, “Everything changes. That’s a sign of life. That’s a sign that something is continuing to live is that it grows and it changes. And that the greatest act of love that we could show Gibbs is to give him our blessing in what he’s doing now.”
Because of that, Jimmy probably has come to peace with Gibbs’ decision to leave, but that doesn’t mean that the guy’s not gonna miss him. He certainly has been so close with him over the years, and Gibbs has saved his bacon more than once. And NCIS, as we’ve always said, there’s such a family dynamic to it that can’t be denied. In that respect when a family member moves away and that sort of thing, that doesn’t mean they’re not a part of your life anymore. It just means they’re not a part of your day to day.
He’s alive. He can come back. Although it felt like we didn’t get that much closure for Palmer because we didn’t get a goodbye moment in his last episode.
I was bummed that I didn’t get that, but honestly I think that it was such a great episode that was written that you couldn’t stack goodbye scene on top of goodbye scene. Otherwise you really wouldn’t have any room to do anything else or to solve the crime that they were actually trying to solve as well. There was some wonderful goodbyes in there. I certainly selfishly would’ve liked Jimmy to have his own, but I understand the practical reasons why it couldn’t be done.
Will you be writing another episode next season?
Yeah, I will be. There was a good reaction to the episode this year and I enjoyed doing it and I asked once again and they said, “Sure, let’s do this thing.”
www.tvinsider.com/1044781/ncis-season-19-palmer-knight-romance-finale-brian-dietzen/
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Post by llyan on May 24, 2022 23:33:18 GMT
‘NCIS’ Boss on Parker’s Situation With the Raven and Palmer & Knight’s RelationshipMeredith Jacobs
YESTERDAY, 10:00 PM
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the NCIS Season 19 Finale “Birds of a Feather.”]
The Raven looms large over NCIS right now, and no, we’re not just talking about the latest “Nevermore” message left for the team in the Season 19 finale.
Alden Parker (Gary Cole), who came in as the team’s new leader following Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ (Mark Harmon) departure, finds himself framed for the murder of his ex-partner as part of a case that also includes the kidnapping of his ex-wife, Vivian (Teri Polo)… or does it? By the end of “Birds of a Feather,” the FBI’s gunning for Parker, he’s going on the run with Vivian, and she’s texting “It’s done. I have him” in response to someone asking “How’s it going?” (We should note: The ex-partner, who was involved in Vivian’s “kidnapping” texted “It’s done. I have her” to the same question at the beginning of the episode.)
In happier news, Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) and Jessica Knight (Katrina Law) decide not to “deny the good,” which is what they have. And after sharing their first kiss, they decide that what they have is “definitely worth disclosing” on their HR forms.
Executive producer Steven D. Binder teases what’s ahead with the Raven, the team without Parker, and Palmer and Knight.
The Vivian of it, what can you say about her involvement? Is she the Raven? Is she working for the Raven?
Steven D. Binder: That’s the big mystery, right? I don’t know that there’s much I can say about it, except that we want to traverse some new territory with Parker having an ex-wife. As you may remember, Gibbs had a lot of ex-wives and on one level, someone Parker’s age has either never been married, is still married, widowed, or divorced. We did not want to give him a current wife for lots of reasons. So that left him as a divorcee or a widower and widower’s a little dark and Jimmy Palmer’s in that space. So we went for an ex-wife; since we had a character who we played a multitude of ex-wives, we wanted to take this one in a slightly different direction. I think your question sort of goes into that territory a little bit.
Is there anything you can rule out about her involvement with the Raven case?
We can’t rule anything out mostly because we haven’t convened the writers room yet for Season 20, but everything’s on the table, for sure.
Does Parker suspect at all? Because I was looking very closely at his expression and trying to figure that out.
He certainly did not play it as he suspected anything. And I don’t know how much we can read into that. I think the answer to that question on the flip side will tell us more about Parker.
What did you want to do with the Raven in general versus past multi-episode villains?
I think one of the things we want to do with this character is make them more multidimensional than we have with some other of our bad guys that have crossed episode lines. A lot of times they’ve just been the generic Big Bad. This guy we want to, at some point, know him a little better and be surprised by him and also maybe relate to him in some way.
Is there anything you can tease about what’s next with the Raven case?
Yeah. Surprise. I think the Raven’s gonna be surprising. I think she’s gonna really throw you for a loop when you find out what what’s going on with them.
With Parker away for now, is McGee (Sean Murray) going to be in charge? He didn’t want the job, but this would presumably be temporary.
Yeah. He’s always stepped up in those situations. He doesn’t want to permanently 52 weeks-a-year be the guy, but when he needs to be the guy, he’ll be the guy.
What did you want to do with Parker as the new boss and the team with him as the new boss after Gibbs’ exit and how might that change next season? Because you did a really good job of building up to that family moment in the finale.
He’s the new guy and we’ve had some episodes where he’s commented “I’m the new guy” and it’s “the team,” and by the end of the episode, it’s “my team.” This was sort of the flip side of that coin, which is where the team realizes that he’s their guy. He’s not just a boss, he’s their boss. I think next season, we want to see Parker step into more of a leadership, patriarchal role that one might expect in a show like this. This first season was really “getting to know you,” them getting to know him and Parker getting to know the team. Now he’s going to feel more comfortable being in charge and we’re going to see him wield that power a little more forcefully.
He hasn’t had to do that. He hasn’t really had to step in and be like, “I’m the boss.”
No, he hasn’t had to do that. And although it’s subtle, even though McGee didn’t want the job in the past — [saying we] got the body, giving the orders, directing people — you may have noticed that’s been a little spread out with the teammates. Parker’s not the guy directly ordering people around and taking the horse by the reins. We’re going to give him the reins a little more.
Moving on to a nice surprise, Palmer and Knight! Talk about putting them together and doing so relatively quickly compared to past NCIS couples.
That stems from in the past, a lot of the couplings have happened over time a lot more organically than this one is occurring. Tony [Michael Weatherly] and Ziva [Cote de Pablo] were not a thing for a really long time and then they were a thing. Torres [Wilmer Valderrama] and Bishop [Emily Wickersham], again, were not a thing for a really long time and then they were a thing. This time, we just want to go a different route and this route can go anywhere. By getting together sooner, they can break up sooner and then we can be in that space or they can be together. We just didn’t want to slow walk the part that we’ve slow walked before because that enables us to get to places that we haven’t done before.
Nothing’s really happened on screen until half the pair leaves a few times. Even in Season 1, McGee and Abby [Pauley Perrette] were mostly off screen, but now this is something we would see on screen.
Yeah, everyone’s saying “I love you” as the other person’s leaving. That really isn’t much of an onscreen [relationship], that’s not really a romance at all, is it? It’s the, “oh gosh, we could have had a romance.” So we want to actually follow this journey a little more.
NCIS, Season 20, TBA, CBS
www.tvinsider.com/1045669/ncis-season-19-finale-parker-vivian-raven-palmer-knight-romance/
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Post by llyan on May 27, 2022 21:48:12 GMT
‘NCIS’ Boss on Torres’ ‘Pretty Dark’ Arc & Ducky in Season 20
Meredith Jacobs4 HOURS AGO  Wilmer Valderrama as Torres, David McCallum as Ducky in NCISQ&A
NCIS Season 19 may have just ended — on a cliffhanger involving Special Agent Alden Parker (Gary Cole), on the run after the Raven framed him for murder, and his ex-wife Vivian (Teri Polo) is somehow involved — but we’re already looking ahead to the fall.
After all, we know that for one agent, Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama), we’ve only seen the first part of an arc so far; there’s more to come for the man who went undercover for a case involving cage fighting at a time when he was struggling. Plus, as executive producer Steven D. Binder shared with TV Insider while breaking down the May finale, there are some stories they didn’t have time to get to this past season. Read on for more.
You put more Torres through the wringer this season and we started to see that addressed with him in therapy, talking about drinking, Gibbs (Mark Harmon), not much about Bishop (Emily Wickersham) really though. What did you want to do with him this season when it comes to that?
Steven D. Binder: I think a lot of that stems from a conception Wilmer had early on about the character, which is that this guy is really locked away and he opened up for Bishop and she left, and he opened up for Gibbs and Gibbs left. I think we’ve seen him lock back up again and we’ve seen him struggle with drinking as a result of that. So it’s not that these things aren’t there, it’s that they’re really, really locked up tight, and at some point, it’s going to come out. We got a hint of that in the cage-fighting episode where you just saw some of his internal demons come out. I think that’s really part one. This is a guy who’s under a tremendous amount of pressure. Now he’s a professional and he’s getting the job done, but he’s got these internal pressures building up inside him, and at some point, you pop, and I think that’s in his future.
What can you say about that and how dark Part 2 might get?
It’s always a really fine line for this show. If you take someone like Leroy Jethro Gibbs on paper, that guy’s as dark as it gets. He killed Pedro Hernandez. He was in his basement drinking whiskey out of a nail-filled bottle. He arguably may have committed murder to protect Bishop a couple seasons ago, and there’s certainly a case to be made for that. I think we’re gonna go pretty dark with [Torres], but we try and do it in a way that doesn’t destroy what we love about the character, so always in service to something greater. It’s not just pure darkness.
Diona Reasonover as Forensic Scientist Kasie Hines in NCIS
Sonja Flemming/CBS
You played a bit with Kasie (Diona Reasonover) possibly leaving, then she decided to stay at NCIS. What’s next for her?
I sure hope she stays because she’s fantastic. We’re dabbling potentially with her having a significant other. We’re gonna see where that goes. We used to do Abby-centric stories relatively frequently or at least with a rhythm. It’s been a while since we’ve done a Kasie story. I think we’re gonna have something fun for her coming up that may or may not involve her relationship. We’ll see where the story takes us or where that character takes us. But I think Season 20 is gonna be a season where everyone’s really gonna get a chance to shine, have their own episodes and have them be pretty powerful. And Kasie is certainly overdue, I can tell you that.
Kasie did ask Knight (Katrina Law) about how many dates constitute a relationship.
She did. She did.
I loved seeing Ducky (David McCallum) back in the last two episodes. Do you know how much we’ll see him next season yet?
I think it’ll be probably about the same, possibly more. One of the things that was difficult last season was it wasn’t a regular season. It opened up with all of our energies devoted to, how do we get Gibbs off the show? How do we give him the exit, for now at least? And that takes a lot of energy and it takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of oxygen. Then we were cast with integrating two new characters into the show — [played by] Katrina Law and Gary Cole. And that also takes a lot of energy and a lot of oxygen.
What happens is other things don’t happen because of that. We didn’t have really specific [character episodes]. Well, Kasie was involved [in one that was] in so many ways a Jimmy Palmer episode, [written by] Brian Dietzen. But we didn’t get to do things with Knight as much as we would’ve liked, Kasie, as much we would’ve liked.
And David McCallum, I say to him all the time, “you are this magical pixie dust, wherever we put you, you’re just this magical being who elevates every scene he’s in with that David McCallum gravitas.” So we would love to have more. We’ll have a little more head space. At a bare minimum, you’ll see him the same amount and hopefully we’ll be able to, when we do see him, use him in a way that’s more effective, much like Mark Harmon. The fans can probably tell when we put him in things and he’s just another star on the show versus when we actually devote our energies to making a story more about him, and those are always fantastic. He’s never let us down in 20 years.
NCIS, Season 20, TBA, CBS
www.tvinsider.com/1046275/ncis-season-20-torres-drinking-dark-arc-david-mccallum-episode-count/
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