NCIS is also not CSI, the forensics franchise featuring wacky lead turns from the likes of Ted Danson, David Caruso, Gary Sinise, Elisabeth Shue and Patricia Arquette, and whose theme song is the worst song by The Who.
You can differentiate CSI from the others by its green graphics aesthetics (a sort of ’90s computer code), and by its endless character-dialogue about “blood splatters”. Even though CSI still broadcasts on free-to-air about 15 times a day, it apparently aired its finale in 2015 after 15 seasons, which is news to me. Its most recent spinoff, set in Las Vegas, was launched last October.
Ted Danson and Jorja Fox in CSI.
NCIS is also not QI, which is a British panel show once led by Stephen Fry but now hosted by Sandi Toksvig. If you’re hoping to spot Alan Davies in Sydney once production on NCIS begins or be in the studio audience to hear that alarm blare whenever someone mentions an obvious answer, I’m sorry to inform you that you are severely mistaken.
NCIS is also not RBT, which is a local showcase for obnoxious cops and nervous drunks; SNL, which is an American sketch comedy series; or MAFS, which is a local showcase for lovelorn racists. I know there are a lot of letters on TV but please, you’re swerving way off-track here.
This finally brings us to what NCIS is: in short, it’s the navy one, which explains a) why no one can ever remember what it is (a navy show? *switches channel*) and b) why an offshoot based in Sydney Harbour makes sense (I expect whoever stars in it – probably Rebecca Gibney – to regularly order lunch at Woolloomooloo’s Harry’s Cafe de Wheels).
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It’s also perhaps better known as the one with Mark Harmon, or the one with LL Cool J and Chris O’Donnell (in its Los Angeles iteration), or the one with Quantum Leap’s Scott Bakula (in its New Orleans iteration), and the one with Pauley Perette as forensic specialist Abby Sciuto, perhaps the only memorable character in any of these letter shows not named Benson and Stabler.
Somehow in the US, NCIS was the most-watched series on television last year, and has continued that run during its current 19th season, which highlights the stakes involved with this unlikely Aussie spin-off. Will our version be the one that takes the MIA out of NCIS, or will it be DOA? OK sure, I will GTFO.
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NCIS is getting a Sydney-set spin-off. Wait, which one is NCIS?
Source: Philippines Alive
