All of a sudden, NCIS is one of the most popular shows on television. The program, which airs on CBS on Tuesdays at 8 pm, is seeing huge ratings this fall. The reason? Last May's season finale, where one of the main characters, played by Sasha Alexander, was killed off. The way she was killed off got a lot of acclaim (she was shot in the chest, but survived because of a bullet-proof vest, only to be shot in the head as she got up). Apparently NCIS did really well this summer as viewers caught up on the series during re-runs. Now, in its third season, the Mark Harmon-driven military crime investigation show is getting 8 million viewers per show and ranking among the top ten shows each week.In a Reuters article, show creator Don Bellisario says the program was never given a fair chance because it was seen as a knock-off of JAG and the CSI franchise (I have to admit...that's what it sounds like to me).
Just one question: what does NCIS stand for?
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11-07-2005 @ 10:07AM
Dorv said...
Naval Criminal Investigative Services
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11-07-2005 @ 12:29PM
spongy said...
I actually didn't watch it for the longest time because I didn't like the guy that was on Dark Angel... but I got over that. Now I've sort of gotten hooked to season 3. It's snappy, it's snarky, it's kinda interesting with the new cast editions and cases so it seems that I'm among those who've kind of gotten into the show where as before, not so much.
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11-07-2005 @ 12:57PM
Ed said...
That's us.....NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Snarkies. :)
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11-07-2005 @ 1:20PM
Ed said...
Actually NCIS is singular. Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
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11-07-2005 @ 10:14PM
Dorv said...
Yeah, that was a typo ;)
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11-08-2005 @ 10:54AM
ZipperSeven said...
I have an aunt that works for NCIS (in real life.)
The show can get a bit Bellisario-crapped up...it has that air of unbelievability to it (although not to the extreme that JAG had,) sometimes the characters are a little over the top, sometimes the show will stray a bit (due to the characters being over the top) away from the story at hand and to some pointless exercise to 'expand' their characters.
Ducky is the most believable character of the bunch, Abby is the coolest geek on TV, and Gibbs is the best hardass supervisor I've seen. The new Israeli chick seems more comic relief than anything, her constant fumbling of English idioms and American customs just there to distract from the dead bodies. She makes me miss Kate and DiNozzo's constant love-hate bickering.
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11-08-2005 @ 6:00PM
Alix Winslow said...
I watch NCIS for the humor and the delightful Michael Weatherly, who's character rarely smiled on Dark Angel and is quite funny on NCIS.
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