"NCIS" Season 23 Preview

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Fall TV Preview 2025: NCIS
Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 8/7c (CBS)


“NCIS on Fire” — as Season 23 is dubbed — starts with Jimmy wheeling away Alden’s murdered father and the rest of the team on scene surmising that Carla Marino did the misdeed.

“We open with a lot of heat, a lot of action — and we’re hoping to not let up,” showrunner Steven D. Binder tells TVLine.



Is the Kansas City mob queen, as hinted by the finale, also connected to the Lily mystery that haunts Alden?

The answer is now… no. “We’ve done a lot of thinking about this,” Binder explains, “and it felt like these should be separate stories.”



Speaking of Lily, the oddity within Eleanor Parker’s death certificate will unfold “quickly,” Binder promises, with the larger mystery moving into the present and weaving in Alden’s Navy admiral sister.

Elsewhere in the big orange room, Binder says the writers finally “cracked” how to shake up the on-again, off-again Jimmy/Jessica in an interesting way; Kasie will create something “that causes her a lot of trouble”; and “at some point we hope to expand the family of our characters in a way that will be shocking… and hopefully won’t be Jump the Shark-ing.”




BONUS SPOILER!..?:

Will NCIS mark the 30th anniversary of its sire JAG‘s premiere?

“I’d like to,” says Binder. “It’s funny you ask, because I was just at Don Bellisario’s 90th birthday party and I did say something about that to him….”

https://tvline.com/lists/2025-fall-t...s-season-23-2/