{"id":738021,"date":"2026-07-02T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738021\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:48:10","slug":"michael-weatherly-returning-to-ncis-for-season-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738021\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Weatherly Returning To &#8216;NCIS&#8217; For Season 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-weatherly\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-weatherly\" data-tag=\"michael-weatherly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Weatherly<\/a> is suiting back up as Tony DiNozzo to return to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ncis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ncis\" data-tag=\"ncis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCIS<\/a> this fall for a season-long arc. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe news arrives 6 months after\u00a0NCIS: Tony &amp; Ziva\u00a0was canceled after one season at Paramount+. The spinoff reunited Weatherly with Cote de Pablo, who played Tony\u2019s partner in life and in fighting crime, Ziva, on the mothership series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCBS declined to comment regarding whether de Pablo will also return to NCIS, nor if they plan to retcon the events from Tony &amp; Ziva. They could also continue the storyline from the spinoff with or without de Pablo; however, the network is staying mum on their plans for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 24 of NCIS\u00a0will air Tuesdays at 8:00 PM, ET\/PT this fall on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWeatherly first portrayed Tony on JAG\u2019s two-episode backdoor pilot for NCIS in Season 8. He starred on NCIS as a main cast member since the show\u2019s inception until Season 13, when he departed in the finale. Weatherly embraced the universe again in NCIS: Tony &amp; Ziva, which premiered last fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNCIS: Tony &amp; Ziva\u00a0picked up after Ziva\u2019s supposed death when Tony left the NCIS team to go raise their daughter. Years later, Ziva was discovered alive, leading her to complete one final mission with NCIS before she was reunited with Tony and their daughter in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/cbs-ncis-new-york-ll-cool-j-tony-and-ziva-cancellation-1236862229\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When CBS announced the pickup of the latest installment of the NCIS expanding universe, NCIS: New York, in April, Deadline asked whether they had considered bringing back Tony &amp; Ziva for a second season instead of making a new spinoff.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAmy Reisenbach, CBS Entertainment President, replied, \u201cWe really wanted to bring the Sam Hanna character back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSam Hanna has been played by LL Cool J on three NCIS franchise shows, including the mothership series, the spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS: Hawai\u2019i, following the cancellation of the LA spinoff. NCIS: New York will air Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. this fall in between NCIS and NCIS: Origins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNCIS, which revolves around special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, stars Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Katrina Law, Brian Dietzen, Diona Reasonover, and Gary Cole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 24 executive producers: Steven D. Binder, Chas. Floyd Johnson, Mark Harmon, Scott Williams, Christopher J. Waild, Mark R. Schilz, Jos\u00e9 Clemente Hernandez, Avery C. Drewe, Marco Schnabel and Donald P. Bellisario. NCIS is produced by CBS Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Weatherly is suiting back up as Tony DiNozzo to return to CBS\u2018 NCIS this fall for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[991,88,34864,34865],"class_list":["post-738021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cbs","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-weatherly","tag-ncis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}