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Business Upturn
5 days ago
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- Business Upturn
NCIS Season 23: Release date speculation, cast and plot details – Everything we know so far
By Aman Shukla Published on June 6, 2025, 19:00 IST Last updated June 6, 2025, 12:41 IST NCIS , the long-running CBS procedural drama, continues to captivate audiences with its compelling mix of crime-solving, character-driven storytelling, and military intrigue. With Season 22 concluding on May 5, 2025, fans are eagerly anticipating NCIS Season 23. Here's everything we know so far about the release date, cast, plot details, and more. NCIS Season 23 Release Date Speculation CBS confirmed the renewal of NCIS for Season 23 in February 2025, alongside other franchise shows like NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney . While an exact premiere date has not been announced, the series has historically been a fall staple. Based on previous seasons, such as Season 22's premiere on October 14, 2024, and industry reports, NCIS Season 23 is expected to debut in late September or early October 2025. Some reports speculate a potential premiere as early as August 11, 2025, though this seems optimistic given CBS's typical scheduling. The show will likely return to its new Tuesday 8/7c slot, following its shift from Mondays in the 2025-2026 lineup, as noted by TV Insider . NCIS Season 23 Cast: Who's Returning? The NCIS Season 23 cast is expected to feature the core team from Season 22, as no major departures were reported following the finale. The main cast members likely to return include: Gary Cole as Supervisory Special Agent Alden Parker Sean Murray as Senior Special Agent Timothy McGee Wilmer Valderrama as Special Agent Nicholas 'Nick' Torres Katrina Law as Special Agent Jessica Knight Brian Dietzen as Dr. Jimmy Palmer Diona Reasonover as Forensic Scientist Kasie Hines Rocky Carroll as NCIS Director Leon Vance NCIS Season 23 Plot Details: What to Expect? As a procedural drama, NCIS Season 23 will likely continue its case-of-the-week format, with each episode introducing standalone mysteries tied to Navy or Marine Corps crimes. However, the Season 22 finale set up a significant overarching narrative that will drive Season 23's plot, particularly centered on Alden Parker (Gary Cole) and his pursuit of Carla Marino (Rebecca De Mornay). The Season 22 finale revealed a devastating twist: Carla Marino, Parker's longtime nemesis, is likely responsible for the murder of his father, Roman Parker (Francis X. McCarthy), as suggested by a lipstick stain on a wine glass. This personal tragedy will push Parker into 'very dark places,' according to TV Insider , setting the stage for an emotionally charged arc. The team's hunt for Marino, connected to a high-stakes plot involving stolen nuclear material and the Nexus cartel, will likely dominate the season's narrative. Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication . A media enthusiast who has a strong hold on communication ,content writing and copy writing. Aman is currently working as journalist at
San Francisco Chronicle
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
The best-ever San Francisco TV show is all but forgotten. Here's how to watch today
We live in a TV nostalgia wonderland, where almost every program we grew up loving is streaming. So how is it possible that the best show ever filmed in San Francisco is nowhere to be found? No, not 'The Streets of San Francisco,' the 1970s cop show that's still fun to watch for the pulsing score and daylight San Francisco exteriors. And certainly not 'Full House,' the 1980s/1990s confection which is disqualified because — other than a few opening credits shots — it was filmed in Los Angeles. Sandwiched in between was 'Midnight Caller,' the moody NBC procedural about San Francisco cop Jack Killian (Gary Cole), who accidentally shoots his partner, finds his way to a midnight to 3 a.m. talk radio shift and engages in therapy with a struggling city — while helping solve the occasional crime. The show aired for three seasons from 1988 to 1991, survived one big controversy, then disappeared. It's no longer syndicated. It hasn't been released on physical media in the U.S. And it doesn't stream on Peacock, Netflix or nostalgia-friendly services like Pluto TV and Tubi. How did Hollywood lose an entire television show? 'Midnight Caller' caught San Francisco by surprise. After 'The Streets of San Francisco' filmed the last of its 121 episodes in 1977, television shows stopped embedding in the city. In 1988 'Hooperman,' 'My Sister Sam' and 'Sledge Hammer!' were all San Francisco shows in name only, set in the city but filming on L.A. sound stages. The producers of 'Midnight Caller' in early 1988 quietly set up in San Francisco Studios on Seventh Street, the SOMA sound stage where 'Star Trek IV' and 'A View to the Kill' interiors were filmed. The show had a serious creator in Richard DiLello, who wrote screenplays for the well-reviewed juvenile prison drama 'Bad Boys' and L.A. gang movie 'Colors.' In the lead role, Cole was a rising talent, with a deep radio voice and a brooding, imperfect-yet-likeable personality that would have fit well in the prestige TV era that arrived 20 years later. Even the jazzy theme song, 'Is it a Crime?', came from Sade, whose stock was rising too. The show's 61 episodes included a ridiculous number of serial killers, mob bosses and stalkers looking to kill the host. But there was nuance in between. Episode six in the first season featured 'Hill Street Blues' star Joe Spano as an about-to-be-executed San Quentin prisoner, trying to make a human connection in his last days. (Spano won an Emmy for the role.) DiLello's team wrote an episode about the Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake that aired less than three months after the disaster. The show's worst moment, an exploitative first-season arc about a man infected with HIV who knowingly has unprotected sex with former lovers, resulted in hundreds of protesters storming the KRON studio the night it aired. But the series rebounded the next season with a more thoughtful AIDS episode, where Killian reconnects with a former lover dying of the disease. 'Midnight Caller' received strong reviews, including from San Francisco Chronicle TV critic John Carman, who credited its authenticity, writing: 'The city and the predawn hours give 'Midnight Caller' its visual flourish. This is the San Francisco in which mysteries creep in behind the twilight.' Today, the show feels like time travel to an era when KGO talk radio dominated the conversation, and we watched and listened to the same things. When Herb Caen or Ronn Owens or Dennis Richmond could carry a focused conversation with the city. A time before digital paywalls and Substacks and deep legacy media cutbacks. And it ages extremely well, capturing San Francisco in that golden hour moment when it was a hub of finance titans, strong unions and old money — before tech leaders took over the top of the food chain. Killian spends a lot of time at night in Chinatown and North Beach, with the neon of Li Po Cocktail Lounge and the striped awnings of the Washington Square Bar & Grill (RIP) making cameos. The late '80s were also a melancholy time in San Francisco, still with recent memories of Jonestown, the Milk/Moscone murders and the Zodiac killings. We were tired. And Cole as Killian channels the mood perfectly. I'd watch an entire hour of him just clicking the buttons that put callers on the air. ('And our next call comes from across the Bay in San Leandro. Tell me a story Rachel …') The episodes themselves are hit and miss, like so many mainstream dramas in the 1990s. But Cole would finish each episode with an absorbing radio monologue, ending with his still-gives-me-chills signoff, 'Goodnight America … wherever you are.' NBC and production company Lorimar announced 'Midnight Caller's' cancellation in 1991. But unlike almost every other filmed-in-San Francisco series, it didn't come back. The 1996-2001 S.F. cop show 'Nash Bridges' has DVD box sets, and every episode streams on Peacock and Amazon Prime. 'The Streets of San Francisco' recently released the complete series on DVD. 'Midnight Caller's' absence likely comes down to copyright issues; along with Sade's theme and the moody jazz score, Killian spins songs, including Wilson Pickett's 'In the Midnight Hour' in the pilot episode. There's also a lack of legacy star power. While 'The Streets of San Francisco' cop Michael Douglas became an A-lister, Cole settled into a career defined by beloved cult film performances ('Office Space') and smaller roles on great television shows ('The West Wing,' 'Veep'). The only way to watch 'Midnight Caller' today is on YouTube, where it quietly appears from time to time — digitized from old VHS copies with the commercials clumsily excised out — then disappears. But a new user uploaded the entire show last fall. I've been watching whenever I can, knowing the rights holders (Lorimar sold to Warner Bros.) could take it down any day. In the meantime I plan to binge like there's no tomorrow. 'Midnight Caller' is aging well. And I'm far from ready to say goodnight.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'NCIS' Franchise Returns to Tuesdays This Fall
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways TV fans, one of your favorite CBS franchises is on the move for the 2025-2026 season. On May 7, CBS announced that NCIS is returning to its old timeslot on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. beginning in the fall, per Variety. It won't be alone though. The other two NCIS shows will also be joining the original series. NCIS: Origins will land at 9 p.m. and NCIS: Sydney will air at 10 p.m. The network has never paired the shows like this before. CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach dubbed the night as "Super Tuesday." The Season 22 finale of NCIS was a shocker with [Spoiler Alert] Alden Parker (Gary Cole] finding his father, Roman Parker (Francis X. McCarthy), dead in his apartment. That ending left fans on a major cliffhanger and the aftermath won't play out until Season 23 in the fall. Cole reacted to the shocking storyline in an interview with TV Insider. Gary Cole as NCIS Special Agent Alden Parker and Rocky Carroll as NCIS Director Leon Vance. CBS"Nobody got the script until I guess maybe a couple of weeks before we shot that. I thought it was certainly a dynamic ending," Cole said. "As an actor, selfishly, I was a little bit sad because I really like the actor who plays my father and I like doing those scenes, but I thought it was certainly a surprise, which I think was good for us, and hopefully, into the next season, will lead to some very probably dark places, which I think is not a bad thing either." The NCIS universe won't be the only show with a themed primetime spot. Jerry Bruckheimer will own Friday nights on CBS with three new shows: Sheriff Country at 8 p.m., a Fire Country spinoff at 9 p.m., and the Blue Bloods spinoff, Boston Blue, at 10 p.m. Related: CBS Saddles Up New 'Yellowstone' Spinoff
