Everything We Know About NCIS: Tony & Ziva

When Anthony DiNozzo left the NCIS to take care of his daughter after her mother, Ziva David, died, NCIS fans thought it was the last time they would see those two characters together. That was in 2016, when Michael Weatherly, who portrayed Tony, left the show in the Season 13 finale; Cote de Pablo, who played Ziva, had departed three years earlier. Fans finally got their "Tiva" happy ending when it was revealed that Ziva was still alive, and, in Season 17, she went to go live with Tony and her daughter, Tali, in Paris. If that weren't enough, fans will now get an entire series devoted to the duo, called NCIS: Tony & Ziva.

The series was first announced by Paramount+ in February 2024, and fans have been eager to find out more information about the NCIS spin-off. Here, we discuss everything we know about the show featuring the two fan-favorite characters, including when it will premiere, who will be in the cast, and where you can watch it.

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When does NCIS: Tony & Ziva premiere?

NCIS: Tony & Ziva will premiere with three episodes on Thursday, Sept. 4 on Paramount+. After that, new episodes from the 10-episode season will debut on Thursdays, with the season finale airing on Oct. 23. 

It will be the second NCIS spin-off to premiere recently, after NCIS: Origins, which premiered on Oct. 14, 2024, on CBS. Origins is a prequel following Leroy Jethro Gibbs (played by Mark Harmon in NCIS and Austin Stowell in Origins) as a new special agent. 

Will NCIS: Tony & Ziva be on CBS?

NCIS: Tony & Ziva is a Paramount+ exclusive, so don't expect it to air on any other network, even its linear sister network CBS. However, in the past, other Paramount Network and Paramount+ exclusives have aired on CBS to entice viewers to spring for Paramount+. Yellowstone (Paramount Network) and Tulsa King (Paramount+) both had runs on CBS; Yellowstone aired to supplement CBS's lineup during the writers and actors strike, and Tulsa King aired its first season on CBS during the summer of 2024 in the lead-up to its second season. But Paramount+ shows like Landman and Lioness never aired on CBS, so there's no guarantee NCIS: Tony & Ziva will get a shot on CBS.  

What is NCIS: Tony & Ziva about?

After Ziva was reunited with Tony, following her brief NCIS appearance in Season 17, they raised their daughter, Tali, together in Paris. NCIS: Tony & Ziva will pick up during this time frame. Tony runs a security company, but when it is attacked, they must go on the run across Europe and figure out who is out to get them.

"Returning to these roles together on screen after more than a decade has been an unforgettable journey packed with lies, spies, danger, desire…..and self-driving murder cars. (Don't worry, that last one will make sense soon)," de Pablo and Weatherly said in a statement when the premiere date was announced in June 2025. "This is one wild ride you won't want to miss, and as they say in Paris: Accrochez-vous bien!"

Originally, the show was being referred to as the untitled Tony & Ziva NCIS spin-off, and had some potential names like NCIS: Europe and NCIS: Trust No One, but Weatherly and de Pablo announced the show's official name on Instagram in early May.

Who stars in NCIS: Tony & Ziva?

Paramount+ has released a list of actors along with their character names and descriptions. Although some roles in the series will be familiar for some — fans will know, for instance, that Tali is Tony and Ziva's daughter — it's not as apparent how others will play into the season and be connected to the characters we remember from the original series.

NCIS: Tony & Ziva main cast:

• Michael Weatherly as Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo, Jr.
• Cote de Pablo as Ziva David  
• Isla Gie as Tali, Tony and Ziva's 12-year-old daughter
• Amita Suman as Claudette, the CTO at Tony's private security company
• Maximilian Osinski as Boris, a Russian expat and computer hacker
• Nassima Benchicou as Martine, a former French intelligence agent
• Julian Ovenden as Jonah, a former NSA computer programmer and now the Secretary General of Interpol
• Terence Maynard as Dr. Lang, a therapist who treats patients with severe traumas
• Lara Rossi as Sophie, Tali's caretaker with a background in the Special Air Service (SAS)
• James D'Arcy as Henry, a high-ranking official at Interpol

How does NCIS Season 22 tie into NCIS: Tony & Ziva?

With NCIS: Hawai'i cancelled in 2024, there are officially three other NCIS properties outside of the original: NCIS: Sydney, NCIS: Origins, and NCIS: Tony & Ziva. Of those three, NCIS: Sydney doesn't have much connection to the main NCIS; it takes place on another continent, with a cast completely unrelated to the characters we know. And though the shows might end up crossing over at some point in the future, there's nothing that ties NCIS: Sydney to the show's main DC offices. The other two, however, are a very different story.

NCIS: Origins is a direct prequel to NCIS that traces the origins of the show's most iconic character, Leroy Jethro Gibbs — played by Mark Harmon for 19 seasons. The show is set in 1991, shortly after the deaths of Gibbs' first wife Shannon and daughter Kelly, and follows Gibbs as a new agent at the NCIS Camp Pendleton office. NCIS: Tony & Ziva, meanwhile, brings back two fan-favorite characters from NCIS, Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, alongside their daughter Tali, and finds them on the run in Europe for reasons yet undisclosed. Tony and Ziva met and fell in love in NCIS, and after Ziva's supposed death and Tony learning that the two had a daughter, they reunited and have been raising their daughter Tali together.

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Where can I watch NCIS: Tony & Ziva?

NCIS: Tony & Ziva will be available to stream on Paramount+ for those with a subscription.