“NCIS” is finally coming to New York, with the show’s fifth spinoff this fall, and a particularly familiar figure for the “NCIS” universe at the helm \u2014 LL Cool J’s Sam Hanna, of “NCIS: Los Angeles,” which wrapped in 2023 after a 14-season run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“NCIS: New York” and Hanna’s primetime return were the big reveals in CBS’\u00a02026 fall schedule announced Wednesday. Scott Caan, of the network’s\u00a0“Hawaii Five-O,” is also joining the latest spinoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Title aside, CBS didn’t indicate whether the show will actually be produced in New York, which has been especially hard hit by an industrywide production slump.<\/p>\n
Here’s CBS’ through line: Legendary NCIS Agent Sam Hanna returns to his hometown of New York City to their field office, partnering with a roguish agent (Caan) and helping lead a new team as they are tasked with high-stakes missions to defend one of the most vital cities and ports in the world.<\/p>\n
Bay Shore-born, St. Albans-raised LL\u00a0Cool J (James Todd Smith), 58, has been an especially prolific actor (counting music videos) over the decades, but Hanna has been the calling card \u2014 and it’s a role he’s never left behind either. Since “NCIS: LA” was canceled (reportedly over cost), the Grammy-winning hip-hop artist\u00a0and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has appeared in “NCIS: Hawaii” and on the mother ship, where he’ll return once again, coincidentally (or not), in the April 21 and 28 episodes.<\/p>\n
CBS said the new series will air Tuesday at 9 \u2014 an all-“NCIS” night, with “NCIS” as lead-in, and “NCIS: Origins” as lead-out at 10. In addition, CBS announced two other new shows for the fall lineup:\u00a0“Cupertino,” starring Mike Colter as a lawyer going up against “the giants of Silicon Valley”; and “Eternally Yours” about (yes) a pair of vampires “who have been married for 500 years and their struggles to accept the human who is dating their daughter.”<\/p>\n
\n\tVerne Gay is Newsday’s TV writer and critic. He has covered the media business for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“NCIS” is finally coming to New York, with the show’s fifth spinoff this fall, and a particularly familiar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,11776],"class_list":["post-198658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-tv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}