Brian Dietzen has been playing Jimmy Palmer on NCIS for nearly the entirety of its run, debuting in the Season 1 episode “Split Decision,” which was originally just going to be the start of a three-episode guest stint Now Jimmy is one of the most important characters on the CBS procedural, but that’s not to say Dietzen has always approved of the way his character has been handled. In one instance, he went to the NCIS showrunner to voice a problem he was having with Jimmy’s depiction.
This came up when I spoke with Brian Dietzen and Kasie Hines actress Diona Reasonover about their new podcast NCIS: Partners & Probies, which sees the two of them interviewing cast, crew, creatives and real-world experts about the NCIS franchise. During the first episode, which saw Dietzen and Reasonover interviewing each other, the former brought up how he finds “new discoveries” for Jimmy Palmer each week in order to keep the experience of playing him fresh. As such, I asked Dietzen if there were any times in the past where he went to the NCIS writers to express concerns about the direction was being taken, and he told me:
