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 CBS has locked in a date for its returning Friday drama slate — including the well-watched Blue Bloods , which will tackle both police brutality and the pandemic. MacGyver Season 5, Magnum P.I. Season 3 and Blue Bloods Season 11 will all return on Friday, Dec. 4, airing in that order starting at 8/7c With this announcement, the only “fall 2020” CBS shows still awaiting dates are Evil Season 2 and the launch of the Queen Latifah-led Equalizer reboot, both of which only recently started production. CBS also released the synopses for each Friday season opener: MACGYVER In “Resort + Desi + Riley + Window Cleaner + Witness,” Mac and the team infiltrate a glamorous hotel used as an international hideout for criminals in order to find a woman with vital information on Codex. However, their target has a new secret identity — including a completely new face. MAGNUM P.I. In “Double Jeopardy,” Magnum and Higgins’ new clients hire them to find their missing brother last seen on...

 NCIS stars Mark Harmon and Sean Murray are in their 18th season of working together on the popular CBS procedural. During their years playing Agents Leroy Gibbs and Tim McGee, there has been an interesting parallel between the show and real life. Murray says that Harmon has been a mentor for him as an actor, just like Gibbs has taught a few things to McGee. Sean Murray credits Mark Harmon for the success of ‘NCIS’ The cast and crew of NCIS recently hit a major milestone when they aired the 400th episode of the crime drama. It is extremely rare for a scripted series to last this long, and Murray credits Harmon for the show’s success. “We wouldn’t be here, 16 years later, if it wasn’t for Harmon,” Murray told Country Living in 2019. “Harmon is a very special individual.” Murray describes Harmon as “a real actor” who “goes for the realness of it, the truth of it.” He says that every actor strives to do that. “Boy, is he good at it,” Murray says of ...

 NCIS season 17 sees Ziva David return to the CBS series. But will the character be reunited with her daughter Tali and that child’s father, Tony DiNozzo? Ncis season 17 ziva david return daughter tali tony dinozzo cbs series michael weatherly (Image: CBS) CBS will air the first episode of NCIS season 17 next week, which will see the return of Ziva David (played by Cote de Pablo). With Ziva coming back, fans are wondering whether she will be reunited with people like her former partner Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) and their daughter, Tali (Emelia and Layla Golfieri). A recent interview with de Pablo and Gibbs star Mark Harmon included a number of hints about whether Tali will appear again in the new series of NCIS. Will Ziva David be reunited with Tali in NCIS? Ziva’s relationship with her family and the sacrifices she made to protect them will be central to the first two episodes of NCIS season 17. This was hinted in de Pablo and Harmon’s in...

  NCIS barely got season 18 underway before it was time for the fall finale. Just three episodes into the season, the CBS procedural took a break and revealed they wouldn’t be back with new episodes until January. There is some good news, though. When NCIS does return in the new year, the network has revealed that they will be bringing back another fan favorite. The pandemic forced ‘NCIS’ to reconfigure season 18 Fans will remember that when the pandemic hit back in March, the cast and crew of NCIS was still four episodes away from finishing up production on season 17. As Cinema Blend notes, this forced them to cap off their various storylines early instead of closing out their season with a traditional finale. The lack of those final four episodes also had ramifications for season 18. The creative team decided to reconfigure the start of the season, which resulted in a cold open that had a time stamp of March 2020. Then, they quickly jumped b...

 NCIS star Sean Murray has opened up about a key filming moment during the first season when he realised the action-packed CBS series was destined for great things. The milestone 18th season of hit series NCIS will be continuing in January, along with two sensational spin-offs. CBS’s flagship serial recently reached an impressive 400 episodes, and Timothy McGee star Sean Murray recently tried to put his finger on what’s given the show its enormous staying-power. Sean Murray has recalled a moment from NCIS season one as the first time he realised the popular action series was on to something special. In an interview with CBS Chicago, Murray revealed he was filming with his co-star, Michael Weatherly, when he felt the series was doing something most television projects hadn’t attempted before. Murray explained: “You know it’s funny. We were in episode; I don’t know I think it was the 17th episode of the first season. That particular show was about u...

  CBS Studios has pushed the return-to-production dates for five shows coming off the current holiday hiatus, including NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. The news comes a day after De@dline reported that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health had urged the film and TV industry to consider pausing production for a few weeks during the ongoing surge in coronavirus cases throughout the county and hours after the stay-at-home order for Southern California was extended to Jan. 16. A number of other TV studios and streamers are also reviewing the situation, including availability of talent and other logistics, with additional start of production delays possible, I hear. According to sources, CBS Studios has delayed the start of production by a week for its series that had been slated to return Jan. 4, NCIS, NCIS LA and Seal Team — all for CBS — Why Women K!ll (CBS All Access) and Diary of a Future President (Disney +). They are now scheduled to re...

 If you’re starting to watch NCIS, you might be curious about which actors star in the show. Here’s a rundown of the main NCIS cast members. Mark Harmon Mark Harmon | Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty Images Mark Harmon plays the role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Harmon made his acting debut in a 1973 episode of the television show Ozzie’s Girls titled “The Candidate.” After that, he appeared in a 1975 episode of the TV series Emergency! Harmon gained popularity after starring in the medical drama St. Elsewhere. He played Dr. Robert Caldwell from 1983 to 1986. Other television appearances include Charlie Grace (1995-1996), Chicago Hope (1996- 2000), and The West Wing (2002). In 1987, Harmon played Freddy Shoop in the movie Summer School opposite actress Kirstie Alley. He then starred in the 1988 military movie The Presidio alongside Sean Connery. Other film appearances include Stealing Home (1988), Till There Was You (1991), and Wyatt Earp (1994). Harmon jo...