This NCIS Spinoff Promises to Highlight Family, and We’re Here for It
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NCIS spinoff, NCIS: TONY & ZIVA, will premiere next year, and there’s a lot for fans to get excited for.
“Their episodes are just magic. Their chemistry is undeniable. They are absolute fan favorites,” Paramount’s chief content licensing office Dan Cohen NCIS-tony-ziva-adulthood-1236040950/">said of the NCIS couple. “Yes, they’ve done a few cameos, but they have not been together on air for 12 years, and this is the story fans asked about the most.”
Ziva, played by Cote de Pablo, last appeared in Season 17 of the flagship show, and Season 21 was the last time fans saw Tony, played by Michael Weatherly.
“…the upcoming spinoff’s main events will take place in modern times but with a caveat per a new report from Deadline…NCIS: TONY & ZIVA will pick up after Ziva’s supposed death and Tony’s departure from MCRT,” Screen Rant NCIS-tony-ziva-spinoff-timeline-confirmed/">reported. “It will then tackle subsequent events until Tony’s security firm in Paris is attacked. De Pablo says that it’s part of giving viewers answers about the characters’ fates after they left the main show.”
“I think the fans have always wanted to see what happened between [Tony and Ziva]…We find them in Europe raising their child, who’s almost a teenager, fantastic little Tali, and they are trying to make their relationship work,” de Pablo NCIS-tony-ziva-adulthood-1236040950/">commented.
Weatherly NCIS-tony-ziva-adulthood-1236040950/">added, “I had the opportunity, with NCIS, to travel to Australia, Italy and Germany and England and France, and it became this very clear, international show. It’s that global impact… It’s about a family in jeopardy, in peril, trying to find a way to do the right thing, inhaling circumstances, two people trying to communicate, two people trying to love each other.”
“In the original series, which premiered in 2003, Ziva and Tony finally got together in Season 10. The two evidently slept together only for Ziva to decide to stay in Israel as Tony returned to the United States,” TODAY reported. “Nearly two years later, in the Season 13 finale, Tony is informed that Ziva died in an explosion at her Tel Aviv home and left behind a daughter — their daughter — named Tali. He then leaves NCIS to go raise their child.”
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