CBS dropped a bombshell at its fall 2026 schedule reveal Wednesday by announcing new series NCIS: New York starring LL Cool J and Scott Caan from Emmy-winning The Pitt creator R. Scott Gemmill.
This is a very rare scenario where the lead/co-lead of one spinoff in a franchise, NCIS: Los Angeles‘ LL Cool J, serves as the lead/co-lead of another spinoff in the same same franchise playing the same character, NCIS Agent Sam Hanna. The only other case that comes to mind is Law & Order: SVU‘s Christopher Meloni starring as Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: Organized Crime.
NCIS: New York came together very quickly, taking about five months from the first conversations with LL Cool J about it to a series greenlight with a completed script that had gone through revisions, a co-lead cast, a showrunner hired — and everyone involved locked in with closed deals.
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