CBS Planning Another NCIS Spin-Off
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The NCIS family is getting a little bigger. CBS is planning another spin-off of the popular franchise to be planted within NCIS: Los Angeles, Deadline reports.
The spin-off will follow a mobile team of agents who live and work together as they travel across the U.S. solving crimes. The new characters and premise will be featured in a two-part episode of NCIS: LA airing later this season.
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Shane Brennan, who serves as executive producer on both NCIS and NCIS: LA, will write and produce the project.
In their 10th and fourth seasons, respectively, NCIS — itself an offshoot of JAG — and NCIS: LA are two of the most-watched series on network television, so it comes as no surprise that CBS is looking to cash in on the franchise's success. But the news marks a change of tune from CBS: In July, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said that there were no plans to expand the NCIS franchise any time soon.
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