Anyone who watched NCIS during its first 13 seasons is quite familiar with Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David. The popular characters were co-workers and ‘will they, won’t they’ romantic interests for eight seasons on the popular CBS program, and come this September on the 2025 TV schedule, we’ll finally see them paired back together in the aptly-named NCIS: Tony & Ziva. Needless to say that the Tiva fans out there won’t need persuading to watch this Paramount+ spinoff, but showrunner John McNamara has also revealed how the show is going to welcome in newcomers to the NCIS world.
CinemaBlend was in attendance for the NCIS: Tony & Ziva panel at San Diego Comic-Con, where McNamara was seated alongside series leads and fellow executive producers Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo. The panel, moderated by Jimmy Palmer actor Brian Dietzen, began with a montage detailing Tony and Ziva’s complicated relationship from the NCIS days. Later on in the panel, when Dietzen asked if this was a show that people who haven’t seen NCIS could easily “jump into,” McNamara answered:
