Tony and Ziva are back.
CBS Studios is bringing back two fan favorite characters from "NCIS", Tony DiNozzo, played by Michael Weatherly, and Ziva David, portrayed by Cote de Pablo, who will reunite on screen for the first time in 10 years.
Paramount+ has given a 10-episode series order to the spinoff headlined by Weatherly and de Pablo and scripted by John McNamara. All three executive produce.
"NCIS: Europe", the new action-packed spinoff, set to start production later this year, will follow Tony (Weatherly) and Ziva (de Pablo) as they find themselves on the run across the continent.
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.
De Pablo, Weatherly and McNamara executive produce the spinoff series alongside Laurie Lieser, Christina Strain and Shelley Meals. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
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.
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