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NCIS
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American military drama/police procedural fiction television series (2003-)
OverviewAI-generated
NCIS is an English-language television series created by Don McGill and Donald P. Bellisario. The show airs on the CBS network and is classified under the genres of Crime, Drama, and Action & Adventure. It has a status of Returning Series and is currently running.
The series premiered on September 23, 2003, and its last air date is listed as May 12, 2026. It consists of 23 seasons. Different sources report varying totals for the number of episodes, with figures of 503 and 507. The runtime is noted as either 45 or 60 minutes. The series has received a vote average of 7.622 and a rating of 7.9.
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TV series · TMDB
★ 7.6From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
- Aired
- 2003–2026
- Seasons
- 23 · 507 episodes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Created by
- Don McGill, Donald P. Bellisario
- Network
- CBS
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
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TV series
- Status
- Running
- Network
- CBS
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Crime
- Runtime
- 60 min
- TVMaze rating
- 7.9/10
~21 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NCIS is an American military police procedural television series and the first installment within the NCIS media franchise. With production helmed by showrunner, Steven D. Binder, the series portrays a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The concept and characters were initially introduced with two episodes of the CBS series JAG (season eight episodes 20 and 21: "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown", which aired on April 22 and 29, 2003 respectively); as a spin-off from JAG, the series premiered on September 23, 2003, on CBS. Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill are co-creators and executive producers of the premiere member of the NCIS franchise. As of 2025, NCIS was the third-longest-running scripted, live-action American prime-time TV series currently airing, surpassed only by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present) and Law & Order (1990–2010; 2022–present); it is the fifth-longest-running scripted American prime-time TV series overall.
As of 2026 with the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the endings of Blue Bloods, and S.W.A.T., NCIS is the last scripted show under Les Moonves to continue in production.
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