All 3 ‘NCIS’ Shows Officially Return to CBS Tonight

Image via CBS Published Nov 10, 2026, 8:01 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 Although the entire NCIS franchise has been on a roll to start the fall television season, the trio of crime procedurals ran into the one thing that could stop them last week — democracy. Midterm coverage meant Parker, Gibbs, Hanna, and the rest took the night off while the results of House, Senate, and other elections rolled in. It's far from unusual for network programs to be preempted at some point in the fall, especially for those airing on Tuesday nights in an even year, but it nonetheless slowed the series' momentum at a time when the franchise ratings are at a high. Fortunately for fans, their absence on CBS won't last any longer. All three of NCIS, NCIS: New York, and NCIS: Origins are locked in to return tonight in their usual time slots, starting with the flagship at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Season 24 has been riding a ratings high with the reintroduction of Michael Weatherly's fan-favorite agent Tony DiNozzo as the new director of NCIS in place of the late Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll). As part of a strong CBS premiere week, the series returned with a 20% increase in viewers over the previous season's first episode, drawing in 6.45 million viewers and carrying the momentum in Nielsen's live plus 7 days of multiplatform viewership. Episode 5, "Speechless," will next send the team to take on the case of an eight-year-old girl, played by NCIS star Katrina Law's own daughter, Kinley Andreen, left alone when her Marine mother goes missing. In a race against time to find her parent, they learn the lengths the mom was willing to go to for her family and discover that their shy witness' unexpected skill may be the key to blowing their search open. The newcomer New York, meanwhile, will continue Sam Hanna's (LL COOL J) homecoming at 9 p.m., with an episode that hits close to home for his new partner, Nick Schaeffer (Scott Caan). The Big Apple's agents are called in to investigate after a naval interrogator is violently murdered in her own home. In the background, however, the corruption investigation into Nick's old partner is still unfolding, and he's unsure how to process it all. Finally, at 10 p.m., Origins will continue where its previous episode left off with "Baila Esta Cumbia," as Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and Bishop (Emily Wickersham) continue their off-the-books mission with an intense interrogation while, in 1993, Franks (Kyle Schmid) leads the team on a murder case involving a con woman that hits Lala (Mariel Molino) especially hard. Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Fandom Should You Join? Harry Potter · Lord of the Rings · Star Wars · Star Trek Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you put on when you need cheering up, how deep you go into the things you love, what you argue about, what you keep on your shelf. Answer them and we will tell you where you belong. Four of the biggest fandoms on earth are taking new members, and they could not be more different from one another. ⚡Harry Potter(Wizarding World) 💍Lord of the Rings(Middle-earth) ⚔️Star Wars(A Galaxy Far Away) 🖖Star Trek(The Final Frontier) FIND YOUR PEOPLE → 01 What do you put on when you need cheering up? Nobody is brave about this one. AThe same thing I have watched a hundred times. BSomething long, slow and beautiful. CSomething big and loud with a great score. DOne clever episode of something hopeful. NEXT QUESTION → 02 How deep do you go into something you love? There is no shallow end here, only different deep ends. AI know every character and all the gossip. BI have read the appendices and studied the maps. CI have a ranked opinion on every instalment. DI want to know how the world actually works. NEXT QUESTION → 03 What do you and your friends actually argue about? Every fandom has one argument it has been having for years. AWhich one of us is which type. BWhether the adaptation got it right. CWhether the new stuff ruined the old stuff. DWhether the right thing was actually done. NEXT QUESTION → 04 How do you feel about a room full of strangers? Every one of these comes with a very big room. AGreat, and I will know everybody by the end. BFine, as long as they take it seriously. CBrilliant, especially if there is something to dress up for. DHappy, provided the conversation is interesting. NEXT QUESTION → 05 Where would you rather spend a week? Pick on instinct rather than on budget. AAn old castle somewhere rainy. BMountains, long walks, no phone signal. CA desert with an unbelievable night sky. DA city built around a university. NEXT QUESTION → 06 What do you believe about people, mostly? All four of these stories have an answer, and they disagree. AMost of them turn out better than expected. BThe smallest ones decide the biggest things. CAnybody can change, even very late on. DWe work it out if we keep talking. NEXT QUESTION → 07 What is actually on your shelf? Look over at it before you answer. AEverything I owned when I was twelve. BHardbacks, in order, read more than once. CFigures, posters, and a few things still boxed. DBooks about how things work, plus a model or two. NEXT QUESTION → 08 What do you actually want from a story? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your fandom. AA place I can go back to whenever I need it. BA world complete enough to get lost in. CSomething huge I can share with everybody. DAn idea that changes how I think. REVEAL MY FANDOM → Membership Confirmed Your Fandom Is…Four of the largest communities on the planet, and four completely different reasons to belong to one. Here is yours, what it would give you, and the argument you would be having within a week. Harry PotterYou belong to the fandom that is really about comfort. Hogwarts works on people because it is a place rather than a plot, and the pull is not the wizard war so much as the corridors, the food, the weather and the sense that somebody is expecting you. You are drawn to belonging, which is why this fandom sorted itself into houses within about five minutes and has never stopped. This is the most social of the four, and the one most likely to know which type every single person in your life would be. The books are built to be reread rather than analysed, and rereading is exactly what you do with things you love. The new HBO series is bringing the whole thing back one book at a time, which means the arguments are about to start all over again. Lord of the RingsYou belong to the deepest fandom on this list, the one where somebody has always read further than you and is quietly delighted to say so. Middle-earth rewards patience more than any other world in popular culture. You like the sense that the story you are reading is only the visible part of something enormous, which is precisely how Tolkien built it. This fandom takes adaptation seriously to a degree that other fandoms find slightly alarming, and it has good reasons for that. Your favourite thing about the books is probably the bit that is not action at all, which is the walking, the songs and the long goodbyes. Nobody here thinks heroism belongs to the powerful, and the whole story exists to make that argument. Star WarsYou belong to the loudest and largest tent of the four, the one where three generations are all watching the same thing and none of them agree about any of it. That disagreement is not a flaw in this fandom, it is the main activity. You want something you can share with absolutely everybody, from a six year old to a grandparent, and this is the only one on the list that really does that. Nobody argues like Star Wars fans argue, and the argument has been running since roughly 1980 with no sign of resolution. The pull here is sensory before it is narrative, since it is the sound design, the score and the look of a used and dented galaxy. You would be first in the queue, in costume, with strong opinions and a genuinely good time. Star TrekYou belong to the thinking fandom, the one that turns up for the argument rather than the explosion. Trek has always been a series of ethical problems in space, and the people who love it love being asked what they would have done. You are an optimist in a way that is currently unfashionable, and this is the only major franchise still willing to say the future might be better. The best episodes are the ones where nobody fires anything, which is a sentence that makes perfect sense to this fandom and to nobody else. Starfleet Academy brought the franchise back to a classroom in 2026, which is appropriate, because Trek has always been a bit of a seminar. You would want the conversation afterwards more than the episode itself, and here you will always find somebody willing to have it. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 'NCIS' Will Get a Major Shake-Up in the Spring While Weatherly's return as Tony and Harmon's return as Gibbs have both drawn extra attention to NCIS and Origins early on, at least one of them will be gone from the screen once more before the year ends. With the addition of the LL-led New York to the lineup, Origins is one of several series CBS cut down to just ten episodes instead of the 18 its past two runs have clocked in at. The shortened Season 3 means the finale is expected to air in December, leaving room for NCIS: Sydney to return for Season 4 sometime next year. That means only five episodes are left after tonight to wrap up one of the most dangerous and personal cases of Gibbs' career that has tied so deeply into his past at Camp Pendleton. NCIS, NCIS: New York, and NCIS: Origins air tonight on CBS. Stay tuned here at Collider for more changes in scheduled programming throughout the rest of the year. 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. Bellisario