{"id":875821,"date":"2026-10-09T02:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875821\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:26:13","slug":"ncis-franchise-rating-come-out-swinging-for-cbs-tuesday-premiere-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875821\/","title":{"rendered":"‘NCIS’ Franchise Rating Come Out Swinging For CBS Tuesday Premiere Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The NCIS<\/a> franchise is back to heating things up for CBS<\/a> on Tuesday nights.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lineup delivered the broadcaster the top finish during Tuesday\u2019s primetime window, averaging 5.49 million viewers, up 39% from last year\u2019s premiere Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThat\u2019s thanks in part to the launch of NCIS: New York<\/a>. The series premiere, which welcomes back LL Cool J as Sam Hanna and Scott Caan and Nick Schaeffer, delivered 5.62 million viewers in the 9 p.m. hour. That is up 53% year-over-year in the time period, which was previously occupied by NCIS: Origins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew York was second only to the stalwart original, whose Season 24 debut raked in 6.45 million viewers to become the series\u2019 most-watched episode in more than two years, since the Season 21 finale in May 2024. The audience was also up 21% year-over-year.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile NCIS: Origins might\u2019ve been the least-watched of the three, it was a heavyweight in its time period. The Season 3 premiere tallied 4.39 million viewers in the 10 p.m. hour, up 20% compared to its year-ago premiere in the 9 p.m. hour and 56% from the year-ago time-period premiere of NCIS: Sydney.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll three shows had some big milestones to offer. In addition to the return of LL Cool J and Caan, Michael Weatherly also rejoined the flagship series <\/a>this season as Anthony \u201cTony\u201d DiNozzo Jr. On Origins, Mark Harmon joined the cast<\/a> as Leroy Jethro Gibbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The NCIS franchise is back to heating things up for CBS on Tuesday nights. The lineup delivered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[991,88,34865,257770,60122,92,9611],"class_list":["post-875821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cbs","tag-entertainment","tag-ncis","tag-ncis-new-york","tag-ncis-origins","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875821","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=875821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}