All 3 ‘NCIS’ Series Officially Pulled for Another Week This Month

Image via CBS Published Nov 14, 2026, 4:00 AM EST Ryan O'Rourke is a Senior News Writer at Collider with a specific interest in all things adult animation, video game adaptations, and the work of Mike Flanagan. He is also an experienced baseball writer with over six years of articles between multiple outlets, most notably FanSided's CubbiesCrib. Whether it's taking in a baseball game, a new season of Futurama or Castlevania: Nocturne, or playing the latest From Software title, he is always finding ways to show his fandom. When it comes to gaming and anything that takes inspiration from it, he is deeply opinionated on what's going on. Outside of entertainment, he's a graduate of Eureka College with a Bachelor's in Communication where he honed his craft as a writer. Between The IV Leader at Illinois Valley Community College and The Pegasus at Eureka, he spent the majority of his college career publishing articles on everything from politics to campus happenings and, of course, entertainment for the student body. Those principles he learned covering the 2020 election, Palestine, and so much more are brought here to Collider, where he has gleefully written on everything from the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes to Nathan Lane baby-birding sewer boys. Sign in to your Collider account There is no shortage of procedural franchises ongoing across network television in 2026, but none have maintained their momentum quite as well for quite as long as NCIS. The flagship is in the middle of its 24th season, and a lot has already happened, between the return of Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) as the new director of the titular agency, the trial of McGee's (Sean Murray) son for hacking the NCIS database, and Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) facing his dark past, among other things. Meanwhile, CBS has also taken the formula to the Big Apple for the first time with the new spin-off NCIS: New York starring LL COOL J's Sam Hanna and brought Mark Harmon back for one more dangerous mission in NCIS: Origins Season 3. Despite all the action, the agents are about to take their second leave of the month soon. Already, NCIS Tuesdays had to hit pause to accommodate Midterm election coverage to kick off November. Now, the franchise is taking off for the holidays. November 24 will see no new episodes from any of the three shows grace the small screen ahead of Thanksgiving, instead opting for re-airings. It's been typical for CBS to hold back episodes of the procedural crime drama franchise during this special occasion, even if they aren't airing on turkey day itself. The schedule will be back to normal on December 1, with only a few weeks left until midseason finales air. Before the Thanksgiving break, each of the three series will air their respective sixth episodes on November 17. NCIS Season 24 will lead the charge as always with "Ride or Die," which will take Torres deep undercover on a high-stakes mission in which he's forced to be the getaway driver for a kidnapper as dangerous as he is mysterious, played by True Blood alum James Frain. The agent will once again have to lean on his past work and play along to ensure everyone in the car makes it out alive in the end. Then, at 9 p.m., "My Companion" puts the New York team at the center of a sensitive case, where a Navy admiral sacrifices himself to save the life of an AI tech mogul who was the high-profile target of an assassination. COLLIDERInteractive Impact Action/Quizzes/Your Franchise Collider QuizWhat Action SeriesWould You Thrive In?8 Questions · 4 FranchisesFour franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the professional with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to go down. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.The Four Wick Fast Mission Die Hard Find Your Franchise Question 01PRESENCE 01How does a room know you've walked into it?Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive. ASomeone recognizes me, and the temperature in the room drops without a single word being said.BLoudly and warmly. I arrive with my people, and we're already laughing about something.CI'm the one who told everybody where to stand. I walked this room twice before anyone else arrived.DBy accident. I wasn't supposed to be here, and now I'm the only one who can do anything about it. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 02COMBAT 02It turns physical. What does your fighting look like?Choreography is character. Yours says something about you. AEconomical and devastating. Trained technique, no wasted motion, finished before most people notice it started.BLoud, heavy and weirdly joyful. I'm not elegant, I hit like a truck, and I always have backup.CTo plan, until the plan breaks. Then I improvise at full sprint and refuse to stop moving.DBadly, honestly, and with a lot of swearing. I take more punishment than I deal and I still don't go down. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 03CREW 03Who is standing beside you when it starts?Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone. ANobody. I have contacts, favors and people who owe me, but when it begins I work alone.BEveryone. My people are the entire point, and I'd trade the whole mission for any one of them.CA small hand-picked team I trust completely, and I'd still take the worst part of the job myself.DA voice on the other end of a radio and a building full of people who don't know I exist. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 04PRESSURE 04It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright?Act two exists to find out what you're really made of. AFocus, commitment and sheer will. Grief is fuel if you point it in the right direction.BThe people counting on me. I don't appear to have a limit when it's family on the line.CRefusing to accept the odds. Somebody has to do the impossible part, and it's going to be me.DSpite, mostly. And a growing sense that these people picked the wrong building. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 05WHEELS 05There's a vehicle. What are you driving, and how?No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours. AA black muscle car I am unreasonably attached to, and I will dismantle an entire empire over it.BSomething impossibly modified, at impossible speed, off an impossible ramp. Physics is a suggestion.CA motorbike at full throttle through a city I memorized last night. And then off a cliff.DA borrowed car, badly, while somebody in the passenger seat politely asks me to slow down. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 06ORDERS 06How do you feel about the people giving the orders?There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one. AThere are rules and I respect them absolutely, right up until somebody breaks one against me.BI don't take orders. I take care of people, and everything else tends to sort itself out.CI serve the mission, not the memo. If my people are in danger, the orders come second.DThey're in a van outside telling me what I'm doing wrong while I'm the one standing on broken glass. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 07MOTIVE 07Underneath all of it, what are you doing this for?The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay. ASomething was taken from me that can't be replaced, and I've been settling that account ever since.BBelonging. I built a family out of people who had nowhere else, and I'll defend it with everything.CThe conviction that if I stop, people pay for it. I don't know how to hand that to anyone else.DI just wanted to get through the holidays with my family. Everything after that was self-defense. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 08LEGEND 08When the credits roll, what do people say about you?Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching. AThat I was a myth people warned each other about in whispers, and that they were right to.BThat I never left anyone behind, the door was always open, and there was always a place at the table.CThat I did the impossible part myself, every single time, and never asked anyone to risk it for me.DThat I was just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, who turned out to be very hard to stop. ← BackPick one, then Next Reveal My Franchise Casting Has Been CompletedYour Franchise Is Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive the trilogy, and probably headline it. 2014-2023John WickJohn Wick to Chapter 4Reasonable to the line. Immovable past it. You are precision with a grudge. You don't posture, you don't escalate, and you don't warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are so careful never to be the reason you start.Why You Would Thrive Here The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who honors every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one against him. You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and then completely immovable past it. Focus, commitment and sheer will. You'd be the one carrying grief through three sequels and turning it into technique rather than noise. People wouldn't call you dangerous. They'd say your name quietly and let that do the work. The CodeNo Wasted MotionSay It Quietly 2001-2023Fast & FuriousThe Fast and the Furious to Fast XThe mission can wait. The barbecue cannot. You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and you'd drive through a building for any one of them.Why You Would Thrive Here This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its real subject, because loyalty scales and plot doesn't have to. You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you defend it past the point of reason. You'd thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve, an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics. The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot. Found FamilyRide TogetherPhysics Optional 1996-2025Mission: ImpossibleMission: Impossible to The Final ReckoningYou have never once delegated the cliff. You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself anyway. It looks like control, but it's really responsibility. You have never worked out how to ask somebody else to carry the risk.Why You Would Thrive Here This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that's left. You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an administrative error. You'd thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure. The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door. Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person. Over-PreparedOwn The RiskStill Running 1988-2013Die HardDie Hard to A Good Day to Die HardYou declined to be the person who let it happen. You are not the most trained person in the building, the best equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.Why You Would Thrive Here Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outnumbered, out-planned, battered, and extremely funny about it. You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn't make you noble, it makes you sarcastic, and then it makes you unstoppable. You'd thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation, and you've never had the luxury of preparing anyway. You didn't want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen. Wrong PlaceImprovisesStill Standing Closest Matches 1· · ·0% 2· · ·0% 3· · ·0% Retake The QuizCopied A Collider InteractiveCOLLIDERMore quizzes at collider.com 'NCIS: Origins' Season 3 Is Welcoming Even More Familiar Faces Finally, Origins Season 3 will continue its streak of familiar NCIS guests in "Shot Through the Heart" at 10 p.m., bringing past and present together. In the present, Muse Watson will return from the flagship as the older Mike Franks, joining Gibbs as he seeks answers about what truly happened to Lala (Mariel Molino) years prior. Back in 1993, meanwhile, the team will scramble to find a mole after FBI Agent Casey Bloom (Sean Harmon) is shot, along the way highlighting the surprising bond growing between Lala and Franks (Kyle Schmid). Watson's appearance adds to what has been a season of reunions across the NCIS series, including Emily Wickersham, who will also appear once again as Ellie Bishop in the upcoming episode, Adam Campbell, Weatherly, and even a brief voice cameo by Rocky Carroll as the late Leon Vance. Aside from its Thanksgiving week break, the NCIS franchise will continue to air on Tuesdays on CBS throughout the rest of the fall television season. Stay tuned here at Collider for further updates on the procedural. Release Date September 23, 2003 Network CBS Showrunner Steven D. Binder Cast Sean Murray Timothy McGee Directors Dennis Smith, Terrence O'Hara, Tony Wharmby, James Whitmore Jr., Thomas J. Wright, Michael Zinberg, Arvin Brown, Rocky Carroll, Diana Valentine, Leslie Libman, Tawnia McKiernan, Colin Bucksey, William Webb, Bethany Rooney, Alrick Riley, Jeff Woolnough, Alan J. Levi, Lionel Coleman, Martha Mitchell, Peter Ellis, Michael Weatherly, Edward Ornelas, Stephen Cragg, Tom Wright Writers Donald P. Bellisario, Don McGill, Steven D. Binder, David J. North, Gina Lucita Monreal, Christopher J. Waild, Scott Williams, Frank Cardea, George Schenck, Jesse Stern, John C. Kelley, Jennifer Corbett, Christopher Silber, Reed Steiner, Nicole Mirante-Matthews, Jack Bernstein, Scott J. Jarrett, Matthew R. Jarrett, Kimberly-Rose Wolter, Gil Grant, Frank Military, Nell Scovell, Steven Kriozere, Brian Dietzen, Kate Torgovnick May, Jeff Vlaming, Sydney Mitchel, Katie White, Richard C. Arthur, Laurence Walsh Franchise(s) NCIS Creator(s) Don McGill, Donald P. 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