"NCIS: Tony & Ziva" Gets First Images and Release Window

Paramount+ has unveiled the first images of "NCIS: Tony & Ziva", the upcoming European-set NCIS spinoff series centered around two fan-favorite characters from "NCIS", Tony DiNozzo, played by Michael Weatherly, and Ziva David, portrayed by Cote de Pablo. The streamer also confirmed the series will premiere in fall 2025.

The action-packed spinoff, which has a 10-episode order and sees Weatherly and de Pablo reuniting on screen for the first time in 10 years, follows Tony and Ziva as they find themselves on the run across the Old Continent.

On the mothership NCIS series, after Ziva’s (de Pablo) believed death, Tony left the NCIS team to raise their daughter Tali. However, Ziva was discovered alive years later, leading her to complete one final mission with NCIS before she was reunited with Tony and their daughter in Paris.

The couple's peaceful life gets interrupted when Tony’s security company is attacked, they must go on the run across Europe, trying to figure out who is after them and maybe even learn to trust each other again so that they can finally have their unconventional happily ever after.

NCIS is one of the most valuable franchises and its expansion has been a goal for the CBS Studios. This is one of two new NCIS offshoots greenlighted this year, along with the Young Gibbs prequel series for CBS, "NCIS: Origins".

It is also the second extension of the NCIS franchise beyond the U.S., following "NCIS: Sydney", which has been airing on CBS in the U.S.

Weatherly, an original NCIS cast member, had been with the series since its launch in 2003. He left after 13 seasons and went on to headline another CBS/CBS Studios drama, "Bull".

Speculation about his potential return to NCIS picked up after Bull ended its run last spring. He recently did a surprise cameo in the Ducky tribute episode of the mothership series.

De Pablo joined NCIS in Season 3. She starred in 3 seasons through 10 and exited the series early in Season 11.

In the Season 13 finale, it was revealed that Ziva apparently had died in an explosion in Israel. She returned three years later in 2019, where it was revealed she was alive and had gone into hiding.

She made a surprise unannounced return in the last scene of the season 16 finale, which aired on May 21, 2019, in which Ziva arrives at Gibbs’ basement to warn him that his life is in danger.

Ziva later appeared in the first two episodes of the show’s 17th season and in that season’s 10th and 11th episodes as part of her storyline.